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Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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Havana report from May 31 details drooping coffee prices, demand for rice and provisions amid severe drought affecting plantations and slave feeding; rumors of Sir Gregor McGregor's possession of Porto Bello and Lord Cochrane's fleet at Panama; arrivals of Spanish ships; brig Catherine from Gibraltar; presumed loss of Legal Tender; ongoing malignant sickness claiming lives like Mr. John Lynch's, worsened by heat.
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FROM THE HAVANA.
By the ship Pierce Manning, Captain Campbell, we have received from our Correspondent, Havana papers to the 31st May, and a letter, of which the following is a copy :-
Havana, May 31.
"I sent you a Price Current of the 22d inst. per the Roderick. via Savannah, with corrections up to the 28th inst. Coffee continues to droop, and prime parcels have been offered in the market at 20l-18 and 20 is a fair quotation of the day. Rice is enquired for and has a good prospect-also beef and codfish. The drought has been excessive throughout the country. so much so, that the planters are at non plus how to feed their negroes-this. together with the extreme high price and scarcity of jerked beef is the cause of the present demand for provisions-within this day or two past some light rains have fallen : tho' the coffee estates have suffered much, and we apprehend has caused a failure of the last and principal blossom ; consequently the coming crop of coffee will be small.
By the arrival of a packet from Santa Martha, some rumors have spread that Ponto Bello is in possession of Sir Gregor McGregor. and that Lord Cochrane's fleet is at Panama. Information on this subject is so difficult to be obtained, that I will no vouch for the veracity of what I communicate. His Catholic Majesty's ship of the line Asia, arrived here yesterday from. Vera Cruz, Likewise a Frigate from Cadiz, they bring nothing important.
The brig Catherine, of your port, capt. Welisman, has arrived from Gibraltar in 44 days, is discharging, and will sail for Charleston in the course of next week.
Nothing has ever been heard of the Legal Tender, it is very much feared that she is lost, and that all on board have perished.
Our city and harbor is very sickly, and cases of the most malignant nature occur daily. Mr. John Lynch, of the house of Lynch and Martin, of this place, was buried yesterday. The weather is extremely hot, and we fear it will be a fatal season for foreigners in this place."
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Havana
Event Date
May 31
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small coming coffee crop due to drought and blossom failure; mr. john lynch buried; legal tender feared lost with all on board perished; fatal season for foreigners anticipated.
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Coffee prices drooping at 20 1/8 to 20; demand for rice, beef, codfish due to drought hindering feeding of negroes and scarcity of jerked beef; light rains fallen but coffee estates suffered; rumors from Santa Martha packet of Ponto Bello possessed by Sir Gregor McGregor and Lord Cochrane's fleet at Panama, veracity uncertain; Spanish ship Asia from Vera Cruz and frigate from Cadiz arrived with no important news; brig Catherine from Gibraltar arrived, to sail for Charleston next week; city and harbor sickly with daily malignant cases; hot weather.