The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

The schooner Navarre, Capt. Burrows, from your port, arrived within six miles of the town, and she would have been permitted to land, and dispose of her flour, had not, unfortunately for her owners, an express arrived the same day, with orders to Governor Miro, from Madrid, via Pensacola, commanding him not to permit any vessel whatever from any port in North America to enter the river Mississippi.

The reason assigned for this prohibition is, that the plague had been brought in a ship from Leghorn to Baltimore, in September last, where it broke out, and from whence it was communicated to all the sea-port towns in the United States. Whether this is the true reason for ordering Captain Burrows away, or not, I will not undertake to assert: but I am inclined, for various reasons, to think that it was not, and that no flour of your country will be received here in future: Certain however it is, that Governor Miro, will not allow any American vessel to enter the river, or suffer any American flour to be used here, until his present orders from Court are countermanded.