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Jenks's Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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Trinidad Gazette of Oct 18, 1800 reports Governor Picton's proclamation allowing US vessels to trade provisions and lumber for local produce due to scarcity. Capt. Chipman from St. Thomas dismisses rumors of French-Spanish capture of Havana as forgery.
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FROM TRINIDAD.
We were last evening furnished with the Trinidad Gazette of the 18th October, which is several days later than the accounts from Havanna, which mention its capture by the French and Spaniards. In this Gazette we find a Proclamation of Governor Picton, dated the 1st October 1800, allowing in consequence of an alarming scarcity of all the articles of provision, American vessels, coming directly from the United States, to bring provisions and lumber of all kinds, the growth of the United States, and to receive in exchange, any other article, the actual produce of that colony except Indigo, Cotton, Lignum Vitae, and Dying Wood, for six months from the date thereof.
Capt. Chipman, who arrived here on Sunday, in 21 days from St. Thomas heard nothing of the Havanna report of the combined squadron in the West Indies; and as the convoy with which he sailed came from windward, concludes the whole to be a forgery.
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Trinidad
Event Date
1st October 1800
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trade allowance for american vessels for six months; havana capture rumor deemed a forgery
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Governor Picton's proclamation permits US vessels to supply provisions and lumber to Trinidad in exchange for local produce (excluding indigo, cotton, lignum vitae, and dying wood) due to scarcity. Gazette postdates Havana capture reports by French and Spaniards. Capt. Chipman reports no evidence of combined squadron in West Indies.