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Gazette Of The United States
New York, New York County, New York
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Reports from Liverpool, England, up to late September detail ongoing tensions in the Britain-Spain dispute, marked by mutual armaments and threats. Ten privateers are equipped and ready, with merchant ships hauled up, indicating war is more likely than ever.
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Since our last we have had two arrivals from Liverpool, in England. The papers received thereby are to the last of September. But they furnish us with no farther accounts of the state of the dispute between Great-Britain and Spain, than we have heretofore received. Reciprocal armings, and reciprocal threatnings are the most warlike features the accounts wear: If we may except the information, that there are in the port of Liverpool as many as ten Privateers of 20 guns and upwards, equipped, armed and victualled, ready to proceed to sea, (if manned) at a day's notice, in case of a declaration of war, and the English merchantmen in that port were hauled up. If there is truth in this information— War appears much more likely than it ever yet hath—for the British Ministry would be careful, if war was not inevitable, that the commerce of the kingdom should not suffer by an unnecessary stagnation.
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Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Liverpool, England
Event Date
Up To The Last Of September
Outcome
increased likelihood of war between great britain and spain due to naval preparations
Event Details
Arrivals from Liverpool bring papers to late September with no new details on the Britain-Spain dispute beyond mutual armaments and threats. Notably, ten privateers of 20 guns or more are equipped and ready to sail at a day's notice if war is declared, and English merchantmen in the port are hauled up, suggesting war is more probable as the British Ministry would avoid unnecessary commerce stagnation.