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The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser
Washington, District Of Columbia
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Accounts from Sir T. Duckworth's fleet report that Barbary powers, following the Grand Seignior's Firman, have declared war on Britain, filling the Mediterranean with corsairs led by the Bey of Tunis and Dey of Algiers. This piracy threatens the remaining Levant trade in essential goods.
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Accounts have been received from sir T. Duckworth's fleet, by a vessel which has arrived at Liverpool, from one of the Seven Islands. The intelligence, though not of a very pleasing kind, is what might have been expected. In obedience to the circular Firman of the Grand Seignior, all the Barbary powers had declared against us, and the Mediterranean is covered with their corsairs. The Bey of Tunis and the Dey of Algiers are foremost in this general hostility. The mischief of this vexatious warfare is more than proportionate to the actual strength of the powers concerned. The corsairs are invariably small vessels, some of them sloops, and more of them a kind of armed wherries. It is almost impossible, therefore, to bring any force to bear against them. The merchants of the Levant trade will suffer much from their piracy. It is true, indeed, that the events of late years have reduced this once flourishing commerce within very narrow limits: but something of it still exists, and its produce consists in articles of the first necessity. The extinction of the Levant trade, therefore, must not be considered as wholly without importance.
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Mediterranean
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general hostility from barbary powers; significant suffering for levant trade merchants despite its reduced scale.
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In obedience to the circular Firman of the Grand Seignior, all the Barbary powers had declared against us, and the Mediterranean is covered with their corsairs. The Bey of Tunis and the Dey of Algiers are foremost in this general hostility. The mischief of this vexatious warfare is more than proportionate to the actual strength of the powers concerned. The corsairs are invariably small vessels, some of them sloops, and more of them a kind of armed wherries. It is almost impossible, therefore, to bring any force to bear against them. The merchants of the Levant trade will suffer much from their piracy. It is true, indeed, that the events of late years have reduced this once flourishing commerce within very narrow limits: but something of it still exists, and its produce consists in articles of the first necessity. The extinction of the Levant trade, therefore, must not be considered as wholly without importance.