When Charlie zei "just Alice, I will be glad to export(sp) you, you're goods, and you're VASSEL...." did hatter say "did he just call me a VESSEL?"???

u were right. Charlie called Hatter a vassel, which is like a serf of servant, and Hatter thought he zei vessel, which means some sort of container (usually meaning a sacred vessel when the term is applied to a person).