In October a Boston newspaper, the Columbian Centinel, informed its readers of the Russian victory. The outraged Centinel also reported that Catherine the Great had rewarded Admiral Ushakov by allowing him to shoot 2,417 peasants. “It is not [only] in Africa where the horrors of slavery are to be commiserated”, the Centinel bemoaned.
Days later, however, the Centinel ran this brief and somewhat unapologetic correction:
“By a subsequent English paragraph the above is found to be a mistake. The Empress gave her Admiral leave to shoot 2,417 pheasants.”
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