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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1806
Page
6
A dialogue portrays mutual respect between Native leaders and American officers amid tensions with Spain. The speaker notes a desire to avoid bloodshed, praises French ties, and pledges friendship with white settlers while warning of ongoing conflicts with the Ozages and military movements led by General Wilkinson toward the Sabine frontier.
The Wood county Virginia meeting on October 6 1806 resolves to form a volunteer corps to defend against Burrs designs in the Western country. Six subscription papers will be drafted to recruit members and a court house meeting in the present month will appoint officers and establish rules. A five member permanent committee will regulate proceedings and a public address will be sent to the U.S. President.
London accounts from September 19 report Lord Gagenville as Fox successor and a messenger recalled Lord Lauderdale from Paris. Cook arrives in New York after nine days from St Thomas. Barbadoes dispatch notes a British fleet headed to Curaçao. A boatswain and eleven seamen are hanged at Kingston for mutiny aboard the Ferrer sloop. Moratis Exequatur revoked as Batavian consul at Charleston. Died: Capt. James Payne, Revenue Cutter commander of South Carolina.
Reports from Bergen quote a French squadron striking off Greenland and sinking or capturing whalers. 28 prizes were be laden by the fleet, with vast English losses estimated at 1.0 to 2.0 million rix dollars. Indictments target the Western Territory conspiracy and editor publishers in Kentucky for libels alleging betrayal to Spain and England.
The Norfotk Herap doubts a circulated report asserting a plan by Bure and Wrotnson to lead a party seeking to sever the Western states from the Union. A Washington council allegedly ordered arrests and militia callouts, with Alexandria dispatch noting Burr openly favored Western separation.
The Ohio Gazette editorializes on Burrist plots and gunboat preparations on the Ohio River. It discusses Britain and France, the United States rising power, and a British cabinet shift. Messages report on Miranda near Santa Fe, New Jersey elections, Havana affairs, and astronomical eclipse forecasts with local anecdotes.
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