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The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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Letters from Havre (May 19) and Paris (May 1) report 20,000 barrels of unsold flour in Havre at 6 crowns per barrel and rice selling at 14 livres tournois in Bordeaux. A Paris correspondent speculates that French northern and southern armies, 400 miles apart, may join in central Germany.
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Letters from Havre of May 19, and from Paris of May 1, by the arrival at Boston, state that there were 20,000 barrels of flour stored in Havre, which could not be sold at 6 crowns the barrel, and that Rice was selling at Bordeaux at 14 livres tournois. The editor has just received letters from Paris by his arrival—extracts from which to-morrow.
His correspondent says, "I think it not improbable, but the French northern and southern armies which are 400 miles asunder, will form a junction in the heart of Germany."
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France
Event Date
May 19 And May 1
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20,000 barrels of flour unsold at 6 crowns per barrel in havre; rice at 14 livres tournois in bordeaux; speculation of french armies junction in germany
Event Details
Letters state 20,000 barrels of flour stored in Havre could not be sold at 6 crowns the barrel. Rice selling at Bordeaux at 14 livres tournois. Correspondent thinks it not improbable that French northern and southern armies, 400 miles asunder, will form a junction in the heart of Germany.