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Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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From Jamaica: Santa Martha proclamation orders British subjects to leave within 15 days from October 12, seen as odd after British aid to Spain against France. Rumor of British plan to send 20,000 troops to South America to suppress independents and eliminate their privateers, dismissed due to Britain's neutrality. Republican ship Louisa sighted August 10 en route to Cape Horn cruise.
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Accounts from Santa Martha state, that a proclamation had been issued at that place directing all British subjects to leave it in the course of fifteen days from the 12th of this month. This measure was considered a most extraordinary one, after the assistance rendered Spain by Great Britain, in an arduous contest to compel the French to leave their territory.
A report was propagated at Santa Martha, on the arrival of the late post from Santa Fe, stating, that Great Britain intended furnishing vessels for the purpose of conveying 20,000 men to Buenos Ayres, and other ports in South America, to assist in quelling the independents, and that she had also promised that she would entirely clear the seas of independent privateers.
From the neutrality all along observed by the British government in the dispute between Spain and her colonies, the incorrectness of the above report will appear evident.
The ship Louisa, captain Almeida, of 16 guns and 100 men, under the republican colors of Buenos Ayres, from the capes of Virginia, going round Cape Horn on a cruise, was spoken with on the 10th Aug. lat. 24, 36; long. 60.
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Santa Martha
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October 12
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Proclamation issued directing British subjects to leave Santa Martha within fifteen days from October 12, considered extraordinary after British assistance to Spain against French. Report from Santa Fe claims Britain to send 20,000 men to Buenos Ayres and other South American ports to quell independents and clear seas of their privateers, but deemed incorrect due to British neutrality in Spain-colonies dispute. Ship Louisa, 16 guns, 100 men, Buenos Ayres republican colors, from Virginia capes to Cape Horn cruise, spoken August 10 at lat. 24 36, long. 60.