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Friday, 31 May 2019

Portuguese warships returning from South America according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 18 August 1785

Lisbon, 12 July. The Portuguese frigate of war St. Joao Baptista arrived 6 July coming from Brazil with the remains of the revenues of 1785 consisting according to rumours of three or five boxes each containing 500,000 cruzados and a small box with diamonds. The same day arrived also the crowns’ ship N.D. de Pillar with timber for the royal yard.