Curacao, 20 August. The schooner Julia master J.J. Eugene arrived Thursday
noon coming from Barracoa, Cuba with the news that 11 French warships, mostly
heavy ships, while the smallest were a brig and a schooner brig arrived there.
A boat of one of these ships went to the shore and take 2 pilots on board. It
was suspected that the ships were destined for Havana, a suspicion confirmed by
the news last two weeks published in newspapers in Colombia and St. Thomas.
Note
1. See also on this weblog the note “French fleet attacking Cuba according
to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 12 September 1825”.
