prisoners held in Halifax. In American hands she was briefly renamed Young Teaser's Ghost, after the recently destroyed American privateer Young Teazer. Failing to take any British prizes, she was renamed again as Portsmouth Packet. Under this name and under the command of Captain John Perkins, she had a short, unsuccessful career failing to capture a single prize for the Americans. Recaptured On 5 October 1813, and recaptured Liverpool Packet, then sailing under the name Portsmouth Packet, off Mount Desert Island, Maine, after a chase of thirteen hours. At the time, the privateer schooner was armed with five guns, carried a crew of 45, and had sailed from Portsmouth the previous day. The recaptured schooner was brought into Halifax where her original owners repurchased her and restored the name of Liverpool Packet. She was registered there in 1813. Under a new captain named Caleb Seeley, she captured fourteen prizes before the year ended. In 1814, she captured additional prizes in May and June. Then in August, she took two prizes while acting in concert with while they were sailing off of Bridgeport and New York. Liverpool Packet continued to work often with British naval vessels right to the war's end. Fate Her owners registered Liverpool Packet at Nova Scotia on 6 January 1816. At some point thereafter, her owners sold her in Kingston, Jamaica; her subsequent fate is not known. A Liverpool Packet, Steven Singleton, master, is mentioned carrying emigrants to the United States from England in 1817 in the Memorials of the Clarke Family. However, as the privateer schooner Liverpool Packet was too small for emigrant trade, this reference is likely one of several packet ships operating out of Liverpool, England which also bore the name Liverpool Packet. 41 members of the vegetarian Bible Christian Church led by Reverent William Metcalfe, immigrated to the United States in 1817 on a Liverpool Packet operating out of England seeking religious freedom, eventually forming the first national vegetarian organization and the American vegetarian movement. The War of 1812 was the last time the British allowed privateering. The practice was coming to be seen as politically inexpedient and of diminishing value in maintaining Britain's naval supremacy. The Treaty of Paris in 1856 banned privateering. However, the United States did not sign the treaty because the Americans saw their large merchant marine as a potential source of privateers in case of war. Post script