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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Merchants from Zaragoza, Barcelona, and Valencia report total failure of mulberry leaf crop in Spain due to severe weather, leading to silk scarcity; they order correspondents in Genoa to purchase all available silk for their manufactures.
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Four extraordinary couriers, dispatched by the principal mercantile houses at Seragossa, Barcelona and Valencia, have brought accounts to our merchants of the entire failure of the crop of Mulberry leaves in Spain, in consequence of the late severe season. This must bring on a scarcity of silk; and the merchants of the above places have given orders to their correspondents here to buy up all the silk they can to send to them, that they may be able to carry on their manufactures.
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Spain
Event Date
April 19
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entire failure of mulberry leaf crop leading to scarcity of silk; orders to buy up all available silk in genoa
Event Details
Four couriers from principal mercantile houses in Seragossa, Barcelona, and Valencia delivered accounts to Genoa merchants of the complete crop failure of mulberry leaves in Spain due to the late severe season, prompting orders to purchase all silk for export to support Spanish manufactures.