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Thursday, 16 May 2019

French frigates searching for Spanish squadron of Laborde according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 26 September 1823

London, 20 September. According to the American newspapers arrived end July at Laguayra the two 44-gun French frigates Thetis and Constance and departed from here to search and capture the Spanish squadron commanded by commodore Laborde. This tiding caused a decline in the Colombian stocks.