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He then gave Castlereagh's assurance, that the cartel-ship, the Neptune, should be respected, and expressed his own personal hope that he should ere long be gratified by seeing it bring, with the commissioners, the hope of peace to the shores of England.
Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens
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As he had generously sent back an old woman's finger and gold ring, which one of our soldiers had cut off, the Duc d'Aiguillon has sent a cartel-ship with the prisoner-spoons.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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