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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1808
Page
2
London dispatch notes penalties for vessel duties and cautions on a capsize of wartime actions. It reports French Russian and Austrian troop movements toward Turkey and predicts shifts in the struggle, including possible letters of marque against England amid embargo effects and renewed hostilities.
Paris report on laying the foundation tone for the Canary of Reserve near Bourdon Boulevard. Minister of the Interior deposits inscription and coins, outlines plan for a seven story granary by the Mosland quay to store 90 000 quintals of grain or flour. Nearby water works would aid loading.
Letters from Bucharest report Russian troops in Bender and Choczim preparing provocations for a new campaign. An Aulic Council order gathers 79,000 Croat regiments under Archduke Ferdinand to form a cordon on Turkish frontiers. An expedition from England aimed at destroying ships at Finnishing. Admiral Berkely meets the king. Captain Humphreys sails to the East India Station. Mr. McCall delivers Pinkney dispatches to Washington. no relaxation in orders of council anticipated.
A letter from the captain of the Davenport Guinea ship recounts a Providential rescue after arrival at Cape Africa. The sloop, tasked with protecting trade, carried six swivels and a crew of nine enslaved Africans plus two North country sailors named Johnson and Cam. The item describes the encounter and the broader slave trade voyage from Congo factories to the Cape depot.
A voyage narrative recounts Campbell nearly killed by an alligator pursued by a tiger after leaping overboard. a sharp-shooting crew saves him as blood floods the water and he later expresses gratitude, reforming after the ordeal. The report then shifts to political and local incidents including Georgia and New Jersey events, a fatal attack at an academy, and embargo-era dispatches.
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