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Berkeley And Jefferson Intelligencer
Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Virginia
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Napoleon Bonaparte narrowly escaped capture by an English smuggler crew during a coastal voyage from the Isle of Cadzand to Flushing, staying close to batteries to avoid them.
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The First Consul had a narrow escape on his coasting voyage round the isle of Cadzand to Flushing. An English smuggler lay at some distance, and the crew perceiving what was going forward, immediately loaded their pistols, and arranged their cutlasses, determined, if he put ever so little out to sea, to pounce upon their object. Had they succeeded, provided as they were with sweeps in aid to their sails, nothing could have prevented them from landing Bonaparte in England, much sooner than even his sanguine imagination could have promised. His prudence however, or, as his minions will call it, his "good fortune," led him to keep close under the batteries, that the feelings of those brave men were mortified; and their intentions disappointed.
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Isle Of Cadzand To Flushing
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bonaparte escaped capture; english smuggler crew's intentions disappointed.
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The First Consul had a narrow escape on his coasting voyage round the isle of Cadzand to Flushing. An English smuggler lay at some distance, and the crew perceiving what was going forward, immediately loaded their pistols, and arranged their cutlasses, determined, if he put ever so little out to sea, to pounce upon their object. Had they succeeded, provided as they were with sweeps in aid to their sails, nothing could have prevented them from landing Bonaparte in England. His prudence led him to keep close under the batteries.