Virginia Gazette · 1 April 1773
CP-1773-001
Advices from Aleppo, by Way of Leghorn
Transcribed from the clipping
Advices from Aleppo, by Way of Leghorn, say that Jaffa and Jerusalem are both in the Hands of Ali Bey, who has declared that if he was joined by the King of Prussia he would overturn the Ottoman Empire.
How this transcription was made
Read from the scan at 5 to 8 times magnification on 25 October 2026. The long s is set throughout this page and has been transcribed as a modern s. No character the type sets as a long s has been read as an f, and no f has been read as a long s; where the two could not be told apart the word was left unread rather than guessed. The clipping is a crop of body type. It carries no masthead, no folio line, no running head and no page number, so neither the publication name nor the printing date can be confirmed from the page itself. Both come from the hand-typed slide label and are recorded here unchanged. This item carries neither a headline nor a dateline of its own: it is a single paragraph in a column of unrelated London paragraphs. The headline field holds the paragraph’s own opening words, and nothing has been composed to fill it. The excerpt is the whole of the paragraph — it is the only matter on the clipping that concerns Palestine, which is why the excerpt is short rather than cut. The surrounding paragraphs are a letter from Leghorn, a General Court of the East India Company on the warehousing and export of tea, and a paragraph on Poland; the tea matter is independent support for a 1773 printing but is not transcribed. Ali Bey’s declaration is reported speech on the page, not a quotation, and is not recorded as a quote.
Context added by this archive
Two lines of type. Jaffa and Jerusalem change hands in a subordinate clause, and the sentence’s real subject is what Ali Bey might do to the Ottoman Empire with Prussian help. Nobody in either city is named, counted or quoted.
Cite this clipping
"Advices from Aleppo, by Way of Leghorn," Virginia Gazette, 1 April 1773. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1773-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1773-001
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Last updated 2 November 2026
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