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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1811
Page
2
A list of textile items and sewing supplies including cotton shirtings muslins handkerchiefs stockings lace gloves fabrics and notions such as buttons button moulds and silk and cotton bandannas. The fragment presents a catalog style inventory with many misspellings and unclear items.
Readable items include Brown Sugar loaf faggot tea powder nails and paper. The fragment lists quantities and a date July 12 with uncertain notes and pricing shorthand.
The subscriber informs Augusta residents he will carry on house and sign painting and gilding with all branches. He lists supplies on hand including lampblack linseed oil white lead and pigments and announces location near Herald Office with July 2 notice.
Despatch from Don Joaquin Blake to the Regency reports a decisive victory by the allied Spanish British and Portuguese forces at the Albuera camp on May 16 1811. The British and Portuguese commander Beresford led a vigorous assault that repelled Soult’s force bound for Badajoz. The enemy suffered heavy losses and retreated under cavalry pursuit, with praise given to Beresford and Castanos for leadership and valor.
The subscriber offers for sale in Augusta Richmond County several properties on Broad Street and at Ellis and Centre Streets. The sale includes a five acre plot at Sandhills adjoining David Reid, a soup house with fruit trees, 454 acres on Ray's Creek with 200 acres cleared, 100 acres cultivated pine land, a large dwelling and outbuildings, and plantation utensils. Also available are valuable enslaved people, livestock, a plantation wagon and gear, horses, mules, and household furniture. A long credit is offered on real estate with cash for personal property. July 32. Thomas Flournoy.
Report from New York dated June 28 recounts the attack on pilot boat Brothers and passengers by the British frigate Melampus near the Sandy Hook light. The Tamaahmaah brig was pursued from the east as the Melampus fired on the crew, injuring several, while observers questioned President's response and possible escalation.
London dispatches report a near decisive battle near Almanza with Wellington routing the French under Maffena leaving 4000 dead and 700 prisoners. Burdett vs Speaker ruling favors the defendant. Monroe named secretary signals amicable Britain America talks. Mungo Park’s death confirmed in Africa. king Joseph flees Spain toward France.
General Wilkinson thanks the Baltimore Whig editors and all public papers for support while asking for silence about his four year persecution. He will face a general court martial to answer charges and warns against any pretrial vindication or attempts to influence the court. Baltimore Washington June 17.
The speaker lists four main complaints about the nation’s conduct. He criticizes surrender to British and French wrongs and distrusts crowned heads. He questions convening Congress to address safety and warns against sending American funds abroad to pay foreign debts.
Late English letter reports a Commons bill likely to pass imposing a penny per pound duty on cotton, 4s 6 1 per cwt on ashes, and 3d per pound on tobacco. A second note claims the bill passed on May 24.
An attempt to found Dummer Academy in Byefield was uncovered. The would be founder showed near completion of rights and plans before discovery.
A 1811 letter from a British officer in Portugal describes a brutal scene after a French march assault. The narrator recalls a French captain searching corpses for his colonel, the naked dead scattered across the field, and a bloody duel where a corporal slays the French colonel, the helmet flight, and utter carnage as the fight ends with the corporal unharmed.
A satirical portrait of the late Duke of Queensbury detailing a lavish daily regimen of meals and baths, followed by reports on U.S. congressional proceedings about General W and a curious antiquarian discovery of preserved human remains in Warsea county, with analysis of their possible origins.
Alexandria July 20 Extra notes a proclamation expected October first and speculation about its timing. Rumors say General Turreau is ill and en route to Halifax. Also reports U S naval ships including President and United States frigates depart New York Quarantine Ground as British vessels cruise off Sandy Hook.
A Baltimore report notes Colonel Burr in Paris with frequent access to state officers. Newburyport residents were alarmed by a fire in a Lime Street barn owned by E. Pierce but extinguished before major damage. Authorities deemed the blaze likely incendiary.
Oliver Cromwell denounces the Long Parliament as corrupt and virtueless declaring it time to end their session. He accuses members of greed and betrayal and orders them to depart the house immediately under threat of punishment.
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