Perilous Kentucky Descent Toward Natchez Crime and Capture
An April 16 letter from Wilkinsonville reports Mr. Davis of Kentucky traveling with two sons and many enslaved people. The sons allegedly stole 13 of the elder Davis's slaves and money, seized his perogue, and fled at the Ohio mouth. The African laborers killed the two Davis sons, the perogue was sunk near Fort Pickering, and soldiers arrested the group, now jailed at the Bluffs guard house.
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Cincinnati
Wilkinsonville
Fort Pickering
Davis
Kentucky
Natchez
Ohio
Bluffs
Col Humphries Presses Spanish Quarantine Reform
Salem report states Colonel Humphries the American minister at Madrid has greatly and politely protested the harsh quarantine endured by American ships in Spanish ports. He notes his representations have not yet drawn sufficient attention from the Spanish government.
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Col. Humphries
Madrid
Spain
Georgetown
British ships news from New York port and Egypt reports
News from New York port details the Enterprise clearing obstruction due to passengers, the Rover sinking with most crew lost, and Tripoli misidentified as Syria. It notes Boston frigate Little heading to the Mediterranean, French ships arriving with dispatches, and Lucien Buonaparte in Bordeaux. Egypt letters confirm French success, Mameluke cavalry and Syrian sharpshooters in action under Rampon.
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New-York
Enterprise
Londonderry
Cushing
Child
Antigua
Rover
James Thompson
Norfolk
Connecticut
Cayéline
Trinidad
Tripoli
Williams
Salem
Syria
Mediterranean
Damascus
Boston
Little
la Matine
Citizen Pichon
la Banare
Cayenney Ande
Governor’s Island
French Republic
Egypt
Rampon
France
Sarah
New York
Embargoed British Vessels Near Bourdeaux Reported
Bourdeaux prepared for a royal visit while northern powers’ ships remained embargoed there. A severe early May frost damaged vines promising a poor wine year. Capt Berge, returning from St. John's, says two English frigates were seen to the south east of Sandy Hook on Tuesday.
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Bourdeaux
Berge
St. John’s
Sandy Hook
Worthy of imitation at Friends’ annual meeting
At the Friends annual meeting in Newport this week a liberal collection was raised totaling nearly 3000 dollars. It was ordered sent to the London yearly meeting for sufferings and then distributed to distressed Friends and others in Great Britain and Ireland affected by the scarcity of life’s necessities.
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Newport
Friends
London
Great Britain
Ireland
View of the next Federal Legislature
On June 29 Washington previews the upcoming federal legislature. The piece argues party violence would ease with the new body and says public opinion has shifted toward a republican president, yielding a strong house majority and a small senate majority. It frames this as deliberate, not accidental.
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Washington
House of Eens
Senate
Republican Momentum Shapes Upcoming Federal Legislature
The text argues public opinion leans Republican and notes no election has shown a shift against Republicanism. It anticipates uncertain fates for two federal senate seats, suggesting likely Republican victories but acknowledging the possibility of tied strength. If tied, the vice president would cast the deciding vote.
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Lucien Buonaparte
Egy
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L’orient
General la Creffe
St. Bartholomews
St.Thomas
Traveller
Sligo
House OF Representatives
Repub
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Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecicut
Vermont
New-Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
Tennessee
North-Carolina
South-Carolina
Georgia
Senate OF the US States
New Hamphhiripe
Masslachusetts
New Jersey
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