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Newspaper
Bristol Journal
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 20, 1782
Page
2
Last week of July spectacle promises curiosity satisfying feats. Boaz displays magical affricate feats, aragoporesy and steganography tricks, card deceptions, and grand dodicahhedron experiments. Admittance two shillings gallery one. Doors open seven thirty, performances eight to ten.
London Thursday post dated July 9 reports Thomas Earl of Clarendon granted the mantle to bear the Pruffian Eagle as a royal honour. Admiralty notice dated July 16 confirms the Gift and esteem from the Pruffian Majesty. The Downs saw the Kite sloop arrive from the Texel with the French privateer Le Fantasque, Dunkirk, 12 guns, 30 men. Helena under Captain Dyson captured the crepe Dunkirk privateer Pelcree, 30 tons, 21 men, 3 boys aboard at Yarmouth roads.
Sir Walter Sterling is appointed to command at the Nore in Admiral Evans’s room and sails aboard the Greenwich to hoist his flag. Reports from Plymouth and Scilly describe Lord Howe chasing the combined fleets, British reinforcement plans, and updates on Dutch and French privateers, with transfers and arrivals near Dover and Bristol as fleets converge and disperse.
A storied figure used as a spy travels from Paris to Ostend to London, informing on Versailles secrets that aid British naval actions against Brest and Gibraltar. She earns a 3000 per year pension, while the Rockingham will details large legacies and parliamentary support for Burke, with various executors and trustees named.
Stamp Office in London announces daily attendance hours for granting wine licences and warns that retailers selling wine without a licence will be prosecuted under the law. The notice, dated July 11 1782, urges all sellers of ale and spirits to produce licences when applying for wine licences.
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