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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Philadelphia report quotes a New York letter dated March 17 debunking rumors of Colonel Palfrey's captivity and cruel treatment by Moroccans, concluding he likely drowned at sea on the vessel Shillah based on a correspondent's account of recent captures.
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A letter from a gentleman in New-York, dated March 17, says, "the rumour which has been lately propagated, both here and in your city, respecting the captivity and cruel treatment of Colonel Palfrey, is, I have every reason to suppose, totally groundless."
"There is a gentleman in the Emperor of Morocco's dominions, who is a very great friend to the United States, and keeps up a regular correspondence in this city; a letter has been recently received from him, which gives a correct and circumstantial account of the late captures by the barbarians and does not mention a single word respecting the Shillah, the vessel in which the unfortunate Palfrey sailed.
"There is, therefore, my friend, every reason to conclude, that, instead of pining in dreadful slavery, that brave man has paid to mortality the tribute, which will sooner or later be taxed from all the children of Adam, and that he met with his fate in a watery tomb."
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Philadelphia
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March 30
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colonel palfrey presumed drowned at sea on the vessel shillah
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A letter from New York dated March 17 debunks rumors of Colonel Palfrey's captivity by Moroccans, citing a recent account from a U.S. friend in Morocco's dominions that omits mention of the Shillah among captured vessels, leading to the conclusion of his death in a watery tomb