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Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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The schooner Aurora was turned away from Pernambuco on May 13 by a Portuguese blockading squadron amid the revolution there. The port was blockaded with three warships; leeward ports closed, windward ones open. Port reportedly full of American and British vessels.
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NEW YORK, JUNE 25.
The schooner Aurora, Bliffens, which sailed from this port in March last, for Pernambuco, returned yesterday with her outward cargo, having been turned off that port by the Portuguese blockading squadron, on the 13th May last. Capt. Bliffens learnt nothing of the state of the revolution. The force which he observed off Pernambuco, consisted of three vessels of war. The commander of the squadron ordered Capt. Bliffens to go on board the sloop of war with his papers. When on board, Capt. B. was informed that Pernambuco was in a state of blockade, and that he could not enter. It was further observed, that the Aurora could enter at St. Salvador, or any other ports to the windward, but that the ports to the leeward were all blockaded.
About twenty days before the Aurora arrived off Pernambuco, several whalemen had touched off that port to water, but were not permitted to go in.
The commander of the sloop of war informed Capt. Bliffens that the port was full of American and British vessels.
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Pernambuco
Event Date
13th May Last
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pernambuco blockaded; ports to the leeward blockaded; st. salvador and windward ports open; port full of american and british vessels; schooner aurora and whalemen turned away
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The schooner Aurora was turned away from Pernambuco by the Portuguese blockading squadron consisting of three vessels of war. Capt. Bliffens was informed of the blockade and could not enter. Several whalemen had been similarly denied entry about twenty days earlier.