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Wednesday, 17 July 2019

The American, Brazilian, French and Greek navies according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 17 February 1827

Paris, 13 February. The Greek war steamship and a goelette were lying at that moment at Corsica. The French corvette la Glorieuse commanded by frigate captain de Villeneuve Burglemont anchored 16 January off Ajaccio and departed the 20th. It was the station of the ships with on board 46 navy scholars who recently left the school of Angouleme and which sailed for the first time on a training voyage. From Corsica they were destined towards Sardinia, Sicily and the Levant. When the ship left Toulon she lost in a storm two of her sloops and the topsail but still needed just 12 hours to cross the channel.

London, 10 February. Letters which arrived yesterday coming from Montevideo dated 20 November 1826 reported that the British merchant ship John of London, the Utopia of Liverpool and the Georges of Glasgow and 3 American ships were seized by the Brazilian navy.