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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Extract from a letter dated August 10, 1785, from Bilboa warns of five Algerine privateers cruising between Cape St. Vincent and Cape St. Mary, advising ships to navigate north of Cape Ortegal to avoid them. Capt. Knights reports a 30-year truce between Spain and Algiers, and recent capture of three Portuguese vessels by Algerines.
Merged-components note: Sequential reading order and shared topic on Algerine privateers and related truce information from Capt. Knights.
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October 4.
The letter from which the following extract was taken, was received by the ship Ranger, Capt. Joseph Knights, who arrived at Cape-Ann, from Bilboa, on the 26th inst.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Bilboa to a merchant at Cape-Ann, dated August 10, 1785.
"We find that five Algerine privateers (now in peace with us) have stationed their cruise from Cape St. Vincent to Cape St. Mary:--Therefore please to advertise in the News-Papers this disagreeable circumstance, that the Masters bound for this port may avoid those pirates, by altering their navigation to the Northward of Cape Ortegal."
We are informed that Capt. Knights brings advice, that a Truce had been concluded between the King of Spain and the State of Algiers, stipulated to be of thirty years continuance. And that a short time before Capt. Knights sailed, the Algerines had taken three Portuguese vessels.
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Bilboa
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August 10, 1785
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truce of thirty years continuance between the king of spain and the state of algiers; three portuguese vessels taken by the algerines
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Five Algerine privateers stationed their cruise from Cape St. Vincent to Cape St. Mary, prompting advice to avoid them by navigating north of Cape Ortegal. A truce was concluded between the King of Spain and the State of Algiers for thirty years. Shortly before Capt. Knights sailed, the Algerines took three Portuguese vessels.