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The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
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Extract from Rotterdam letter dated 23th July reports Dutch king's abdication and rumored flight to America, incorporation into French Empire per Moniteur, 50% tariff on colonial goods for France entry, and two-thirds public debt annulled with remainder consolidated into French debt.
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Practical comment on the alliance, friendship and protection of Buonaparte.
Extract of letter from a mercantile house of great respectability in Rotterdam, to a gentleman in this town, dated 23d July.
Our form of government has again changed. The King has abdicated the throne, and it is said, has gone to America. To day the French Moniteur informs us, that we are incorporated into the French empire. All goods of colonial produce must pay fifty per cent. on the value; and are then permitted to be sent into France. Two thirds of the publick debt is ANNIHILATED; and the remaining one third is consolidated, and brought upon the great book of the publick debt of France.
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Rotterdam
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23th July
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the king has abdicated the throne and is said to have gone to america; incorporation into the french empire; all goods of colonial produce must pay fifty per cent. on the value to be sent into france; two thirds of the publick debt is annihilated; the remaining one third is consolidated and brought upon the great book of the publick debt of france.
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Our form of government has again changed. The King has abdicated the throne, and it is said, has gone to America. To day the French Moniteur informs us, that we are incorporated into the French empire. All goods of colonial produce must pay fifty per cent. on the value; and are then permitted to be sent into France. Two thirds of the publick debt is ANNIHILATED; and the remaining one third is consolidated, and brought upon the great book of the publick debt of France.