other Ports and Places in France and that such
Owners of the said Cargo were all then Subjects of the French King.

To the third Interrogatory,

That before the said Ship _Lewis Josephs_ Departure on the said
Voyage from St. Malo, the said Captain Pienoir applyed for and
obtained from the proper Officer at the Court of France a Commission
which gave Authority to the said Captain with the Marriners and
Company belonging to the said Ship as a private Ship of War to Seize
and take any Person with their Goods and Effects who then were or
should happen to be the Enemies of the French King during the Course
of the said Voyage; That it is Customary in France for such Ships when
there happens to be an Expectation of War being Declared before their
Return from such Voyages to apply for and take out such Commissions
before their Departure, And this Deponent with the said Captain
Pienoir and the rest of the said Ships Company hearing at Cadiz upon
their Return thither from Port Orient that War was declared by the
French King against Great Britain,[7] they the said Officers and
Company belonging to the said Ship _Lewis Joseph_ looked upon
themselves well warranted and authorized by the said Commission to Act
with the said Ship as a private Ship of War against the Subjects of
the King of Great Britain and to Seize and take their Persons and
Effects; That the said Ship did not touch in any Port or Place in
France after the time of this Deponents hearing of War being Declared
against Great Britain as aforesaid; That after the said Ships
Departure from St. Malo and during the said Voyage, the said Captain
Pienoir produced and read the said Commission to this Deponent and the
Rest of the said Ships company, and that the purport thereof was to
authorise the said Captain Pienoir with his said Ships Company to
Seize and take any Pirates, Interlopers and any future Enemys of the
French King with their Ships, Goods and Effects or to that Effect, and
was to Continue in force only for the said Voyage, and that the said
Commission had a large Seal affixt to it; but what or whose such Seal
was this Deponent knows not.

[Footnote 7: The king of France (Louis XV.) declared war on Great
Britain on Mar. 15, 1744, N.S.]

To the fourth and fifth Interrogatorys,

That he, this Deponent, knows the Vessel or Snow called the _St. Anne_
in the Interrogatory mentioned and now riding in the Port of
Philadelphia; That the said Snow being laden with Div