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Trade and Plunder Tales Amid War News
Reports describe a Bristol ship St James seized by a Spanish prize crew near Porto Rico, cargo looted, crew detained, then abandoned at Jamaica. Other items note exports of wheat to Portugal and Spain and a Vienna dispatch on Turkish and imperial moves, with Paris Geneva talks and New Orleans preparations against the Chicachas.
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John Curtis
St. James
Bristol
Cork
Ireland
Jamaica
George Reynolds
Silvester Plummer
John Giles
James Painter
Richard Witts
Robert Darnell
Samuel Dicker
Michael Atkins
City of
Porto Rico
Dominick Sanches
John Gartis
St. John
Port of
Great Britain
Curtis
Nimirov
Temeswar
Belgrade
Nimirow
Warsaw
Kaminieck
Constantinople
Porte
Russia
Vienna
Petersbourg
Paris Alamain
Count de Lautrecht
Geneva
Genoa
Auvergne
Baffigny
Woailles
Mand
Corsica
Madrid
St. Hdefonso
New Orleans
Paris
France
Rome
Holy Cross
Cardinal Davia
Nation
Rivielia
Scots College
Church of
St. Thomas Becket
Holland
M. van Hoey
States General
Marquess de Las Minas
Spain
Parma
Pla
Gertta
Tuscany