On 9 March 1815 the US privateer Kemp, Captain Joseph Almeda, captured the British merchantman , James Simpson, master, which was off Cuba while sailing from Liverpool to Jamaica with porter, soap, potatoes, hams, cheese, etc. On 3 April and Moselle, recaptured Ottawa. The London merchant James Strachan Glennie protested the recapture, acting on behalf of Kemp and Joseph Almeda, arguing that the recapture had occurred during the period the Treaty of Ghent had established for restitution of captures. The Vice admiralty court of Jamaica found for Glennie.Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Jamaica. Reference: HCA 45/70/23.
