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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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From Smyrna, April 14: The French Consul charters all French ships to transport 60,000 bushels of corn from Volo and Salonica in the Archipelago to France. The Ottoman Grand Signior grants duty-free export permission, thanking the French King for interceding on behalf of the Pasha of Rhodes, a prisoner at Malta.
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The French Consul has taken up all the Ships of that Nation, to sail to Volo and Salonica in the Archipelago, to take in sixty Thousand Bushels of Corn for France. When the Ambassador at Constantinople asked Leave for such an Exportation, the Grand Signior's Answer was, that he not only consented to it, but that it should also be Duty free, gladly embracing an Occasion of manifesting his Sense of his Most Christian Majesty's kind Intercession for the Pacha of Rhodes when Prisoner at Malta.
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Smyrna
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April 14
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duty-free export permission granted for 60,000 bushels of corn as a gesture of thanks for french intercession.
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The French Consul has chartered all French ships to sail to Volo and Salonica in the Archipelago to load sixty thousand bushels of corn for France. The French Ambassador at Constantinople requested permission for this exportation, and the Grand Signior consented, making it duty-free to express gratitude for the Most Christian Majesty's intercession for the Pacha of Rhodes while he was a prisoner at Malta.