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The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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Paris accounts from Bordeaux report March letters from Cape of Good Hope detailing inhabitant discontent under English rule: exhausted Dutch funds lead to forced currency, causing scarcity, ships to Bengal for food, repentance over surrender, and violent internal conflicts. (214 characters)
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Paris accounts say, that letters, from the Cape of Good Hope, of the month of March mention, that there exists there a very great discontent against the English. The English, having exhausted all the paper money of the Dutch Company, are going to issue some which will have a forced currency. This awakes the inhabitants murmur. The colony has suffered much since the arrival of the English. A great scarcity began to be felt there; and three vessels had sailed for Bengal, to bring grain and rice. The inhabitants repent now of having surrendered to the English, and there are often very violent contentions between those of the inhabitants who detest their new masters and those who co-operate in the surrender of the colony.
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Cape Of Good Hope
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Month Of March
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great scarcity; three vessels sailed for bengal to bring grain and rice; violent contentions between inhabitants
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Letters from the Cape of Good Hope in March report very great discontent against the English. The English exhausted the Dutch Company's paper money and plan to issue forced currency, awakening murmurs. The colony has suffered since English arrival, with scarcity leading to ships sent to Bengal for grain and rice. Inhabitants repent surrendering and engage in violent contentions between those detesting new masters and those cooperating.