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Foreign News
October 26, 1786
Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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From Kingston, Jamaica, Aug. 12: American allies cautious in US ports, often returning to Europe unsold; local merchant instructed to withhold American flour and rice shipment until a hurricane creates demand shortage.
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JAMAICA, KINGSTON, Aug. 12.
The great and good allies of the Americans are grown so exceedingly tenacious of their property, whenever they enter any of the ports of the Thirteen United States, that it is not uncommon for them, when they find no ready money forthcoming, to recur to the virtuous principles of the children of Columbia, to close the hatches again, and to return even to Europe, without ridding themselves of the greatest part of their cargoes; -- having constantly before their eyes the energetic instruction conveyed by the old maxim "Of two evils choose the least." Such prudent conduct should be a lesson to Britons, and their descendants.
We are given to understand by a correspondent, as a fact, that a merchant in this town, who lately had a considerable consignment from America of flour and rice, received the humane instructions therewith, that he should not dispose of the same immediately, but wait the event of a hurricane, as the consigner made no doubt but the island would, on that occasion, be distressed for such articles in the course of a few weeks.
The great and good allies of the Americans are grown so exceedingly tenacious of their property, whenever they enter any of the ports of the Thirteen United States, that it is not uncommon for them, when they find no ready money forthcoming, to recur to the virtuous principles of the children of Columbia, to close the hatches again, and to return even to Europe, without ridding themselves of the greatest part of their cargoes; -- having constantly before their eyes the energetic instruction conveyed by the old maxim "Of two evils choose the least." Such prudent conduct should be a lesson to Britons, and their descendants.
We are given to understand by a correspondent, as a fact, that a merchant in this town, who lately had a considerable consignment from America of flour and rice, received the humane instructions therewith, that he should not dispose of the same immediately, but wait the event of a hurricane, as the consigner made no doubt but the island would, on that occasion, be distressed for such articles in the course of a few weeks.
What sub-type of article is it?
Trade Or Commerce
Economic
What keywords are associated?
American Allies Trade
Us Ports Caution
Jamaica Merchant
Flour Rice Consignment
Hurricane Speculation
Where did it happen?
Jamaica, Kingston
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Jamaica, Kingston
Event Date
Aug. 12
Event Details
American allies exhibit caution in US ports, often returning to Europe without selling much cargo due to lack of ready money. A Kingston merchant receives instructions with a consignment of flour and rice from America to withhold sale until a hurricane causes island distress for such goods.