Cadiz, 8 July. The newspaper Journal des Débats published information coming from the private correspondence. Of the 5 French warships which recently left the harbour were the l’Amazone and the l’Amphitrite sighted again. The Colombian privateers were still regularly cruising off the port and it seemed as if there was a central command. Constantly stayed 4 before Cadiz to be relieved and almost every 14 days by others coming from the direction of the Strait of Gibraltar. The expedition which was destined towards Havana was to depart this month but first had to go to Corunna to join the transports which were waiting for the troops.
Trieste, 20 July. The newspaper Ozzervatore of Triest published a news item coming from Corfu dated 30 June reporting that a large amount of privateers which were helping the by the Turkish besieged Missolunghi and Anatolico but which left the scene after a quarrel with the inhabitants of Missolunghi going back to the Peleponesus. Two Greek vessels loaded with war stores arrived 30 May at Missolunghi.
London, 27 July. The newspaper The Hampshire Telegraph reported that the Mexican 56-gun frigate Surat Castle captain C.T. Smith passed Thursday the channel towards Vera Cruz to join a squadron of frigates collected by the Mexican government to attack Cuba and the Spanish navy in those waters.(1) The Colombian privateers in the Mediterranean didn’t capture just Spanish ships but take recently a British ship John and Ann of London. She was brought to Cartagena. The Colombians claimed that her cargo was Spanish property despite the protests of her master who was offered a payment of 2.000 piasters if he would say otherwise. The ship was given back, the cargo however declared prize.
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1. See on this weblog mine note ‘The Mexican Navy’ published 2 January 2009. This former East Indiaman was in Mexican service called Libertad or Libertador.
