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Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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A false alarm of British enemy landing at Cumberland Island near St. Mary's, Georgia, reported from Savannah on Jan. 13, has subsided. Believed to stem from speculators or mistaking merchant ships for warships. No report to Gen. Floyd from Point Peter officer. Other letters confirm disbelief; Russian ship Prompt likely mistaken.
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TO THE EDITOR.
Savannah, Jan. 13.
The alarm excited by the news from St. Mary's of the enemy's having landed at Cumberland Island, has considerably abated; and it is now the general belief that the enemy is not there, and that the whole story originated from designing speculators, or from mistaking merchant vessels for vessels of war. What has tended still more to confirm this belief is, that the officer commanding the post at Point Peter, has not communicated the circumstance to Gen. Floyd, the officer commanding here.
[We have seen several other letters from Savannah, of the above date all of which discredit the report. One of the vessels which was mistaken for a 71, was probably the Russian ship Prompt, of 500 tons, from St. Ubes, with a cargo of salt, which was off Amelia bar.]
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Cumberland Island
Event Date
Jan. 13
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alarm abated; report discredited as originating from speculators or mistaken merchant vessels; no communication to gen. floyd
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News from St. Mary's of enemy's landing at Cumberland Island caused alarm, but it has considerably abated. General belief that enemy is not there and story originated from designing speculators or mistaking merchant vessels for vessels of war. Officer at Point Peter has not communicated to Gen. Floyd. Several letters from Savannah discredit the report. Russian ship Prompt likely mistaken for a 71-gun vessel.