An
item reported that according to tidings from Tangier the Spanish cabinet was
arming all merchant ships in the Spanish harbours with the intention to disturb
the shipping in the Strait of Gibraltar and to bombard the Spanish and Moroccan
coasts. It was expected that the warships Jaime Primero and Almirante Cervantes
would be active in the coming week. The new guns of these and other vessels
seemed to be Russian.
