An appeal to the humanity and generosity of a liberal-minded public occasioned by the conduct of the British government exemplified in the case of the ship Black Queen, which ship was sent from New England with a cargo of masts and spars, &c. for the supply of His Majesty's fleet in the West Indies, by a licence from Admiral Arbuthnot, dated at New York in December 1782 during the American war; which said ship and cargo ... was seized and condemned in Jamaica, on frivolous and vexatious pretences; by which unjust proceedings the owner ... Benjamin Proctor ... was completely ruined, and who is, in consequence thereof, reduced to beggary and want.