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Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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Letter from Halifax reports arrival in England of US Schooner Revenge with Chesapeake affair instructions, amid persistent war fears. British measures include orders to embody 2000 militia and deploy regiments from Cork and Copenhagen to Nova Scotia and Canada, suspecting US hostilities.
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We have received here by the packet, accounts of the arrival in England of the U. S. Schooner Revenge, with instructions relative to the Chesapeake affair. Our apprehensions of war still continue. It is said our Governor has received orders to embody 2000 militia; that three regiments of regular troops for this place have been embarked from Cork : and that six of the regiments now at Copenhagen, are under orders to proceed hither."
The measures of the British relative to Canada and Nova-Scotia, appear to indicate suspicions that our government is determined upon hostilities, and that ordinary concessions may not avert them.
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Halifax
Event Date
Oct.
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apprehensions of war continue; orders to embody 2000 militia; three regiments embarked from cork; six regiments from copenhagen to proceed to nova scotia and canada.
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Accounts received of US Schooner Revenge arriving in England with instructions on Chesapeake affair. British suspicions of US hostilities prompt military preparations in Canada and Nova Scotia.