Order to the governors and garrison commanders at Minorca and Gibraltar concerning Captain Fortunatus Wright and other privateers, 1747, September 8.

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Order to the governors and garrison commanders at Minorca and Gibraltar concerning Captain Fortunatus Wright and other privateers, 1747, September 8.

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In this order the Privy Council directs the governors and garrison commanders at Minorca and Gibraltar to seize Captain Wright and any other privateers who may have seized goods belonging to Turkey.

3 pages, 32 cm.

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Wright, Fortunatus, d.1757.

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Great Britain. Privy Council

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Captain Fortunatus Wright (d. 1757), English merchant and privateer, was financed by British merchants in 1744 at the outbreak of war with France to outfit a ship to prey on French shipping in the Mediterranean, which he did successfully for more than a decade. When prizes taken from the French included Turkish property, the Ottoman Empire - backed by the merchantsof the Levant company, successfully lobbied the British government to rule that turkish goods could not be seized. Wrwight was arrest...