According to a tiding dated Venice 28 April was the war against the Republic of the Seven Islands almost certain to start and were all ready letters of de marque given against the ships of this republic.(1)
Note
1. This was the Septinsular Republic which existed between 1800 and 1807 and to be located in the Ionian Islands, Greece although still under Ottoman sovereignty. The republic included the islands Kerkira (=Corfu), Paxi, Lefkada, Kefalonia, Itahki, Acanthus (=Zante) and Kythira. The Ionian Islands were for centuries controlled by Venice and since April 1797 part of the French Republic. In March 1799 was Corfu captured by a combines Russian-Ottoman force and the new republic born more or less as part of the Ottoman Empire but in fact a Russian protectorate. In 1807 handed over by Russia to France as a result of the Treaty by Tilsit. Venice was since 1797 part of the French empire.
