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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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A Danish minister who negotiated a treaty ceding Moroccan ports Salfia and St. Croix to Denmark has been imprisoned by the Emperor of Morocco, who annulled the agreement and allowed Christian merchants to resume trade as before. Reported via Leghorn.
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Leghorn. The Master of a Ship lately arrived from the Coast of Provence reports, that Advice had been received there that the Minister sent by the Danish Court to the Emperor of Morocco, and who had concluded with his Ministers a Treaty for the cession of the Ports of Salfia and St. Croix in Favour of the Danes, has since been taken up and confined by the said Emperor, who at the same Time annulled the Contract made with that Minister, and has given Leave to the Christian Merchants to carry on Trade at St. Croix and other Ports in his Dominions on the same Footing as in Time past, &c.
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Morocco
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danish minister confined; treaty annulled; christian merchants permitted to continue trade as before.
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The Minister sent by the Danish Court to the Emperor of Morocco concluded a treaty for the cession of the Ports of Salfia and St. Croix in favor of the Danes, but has since been taken up and confined by the Emperor, who annulled the contract and allowed Christian merchants to carry on trade at St. Croix and other ports on the same footing as in time past.