Roosevelt's evidence shifts from impressment to confiscation

Roosevelt illustrates the loss of a merchant crew with an episode from a Cooper sea novel. Successive British and French captures leave the fictional ship with too few hands, and the voyage ends in shipwreck and financial ruin. He treats the story as representative of incidents that occurred repeatedly, without supplying a named real counterpart for that sequence. The next account concerns a Salem shipmaster whose ship and cargo were confiscated following British interception and a court proceeding. A later voyage ends with another confiscation at Naples under French authority. Those experiences concern the seizure of American property, while the preceding claim concerns the removal of most or all of a merchant crew. Keeping the incidents separate makes clear which grievance each example illustrates.