Despatches on Saint Kitts naval actions and Brimstone Hill defense
Captain Henry Edwin Stanhope, returning from Barbados to report to Mr. Stephens, recounts the 178 Antigua St. Kitts engagement with Count de Grasse. He details the failed French assault on St. Christopher, line formations, ship damages, and the refusal of Bouillie to press inland, while noting Brimstone Hill’s strong defense and the evacuation of shore troops after Gen. Prescott’s successful action with Antigua forces and the 69th regiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Edwin Stanhope
de Ruffel
Samuel Hood
Mr. Stephens
Barfleur
Barle-Terre Road
Comte de Graffe
Barbadoes
Carlisle Bay
English Harbour
St. Christophers
St. John’s Road
Nevis
Drake
Alfred
St. Alban’s
Malta
L’espion
Martinique
Count de Graffe
Count de Grasse
Noble
Cornwallis
Robert Manners
Affleck
Van
Ville de Paris
St. Eustatius
Shirley
Brimstone Hill
Marquis de Bouillie
Brimstone-hill
Prescott
Antigua
Island
Gen
Fraser
Bafleterre
Frigate Bay
Skeene
Brimstone
Hill plots return to England with account of situation
Dispatch from Hood notes sending Antigua troops home after failed Convert and Fortunee on the 1st infantry day. He reports ships only slightly damaged, spirits high, and lists killed and wounded in Lord Hood's 64 5th Regiment and naval officers. Counts of ships of Graffe and garrisons detail heavy losses. London Gazette transcript ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antigua
Fortunee
England
Count de Graffe
Old Road
His Majesty
Ross
Cunningham
Bown and Clark
Chambers
Hood
London Gazette
House of Lords Tuesday Makeu 12 Acted on Royal Assent
The Royal assent was given by commission to acts for funding by annuities and establishing a lottery, punishing mutiny and desertion and improving army pay and quarters, continuing an act on Italian silk imports, and keeping militia forces complete. Commissioners included the Lord Chancellor, Lord Sand wich, and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Adjourned.
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House of Lords
Lord Sandwich
Archbishop of Canterbury
House of Commons Tax Proposals From New Duties Session
Monday proceedings cover multiple proposed taxes and license changes. Brews face 3s duty per barrel. tea and coffee licenses rise. wholesale licensure set at 5s. soap, tobacco, salt, and vellum duties introduced. Excises, stamp duties, and admission fees for venues and exhibitions outlined with tiered rates.
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House of Commons
Great Britain
Portugal
Commissioners of Customs
England
Wales
Scotland
Admittance and tax duties for transport and licenses described
The passage outlines admittance fees from five to ten shillings, a 2s 6d and ss duty, and various licenses and tolls for wagons boats barges and vessels. It notes licensing costs for lottery offices and transport licenses, plus proposed tax adjustments and debates in Parliament about equalizing duties and opposing taxes on insurance fire public amusements inland carriage and land measures.
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Sol
Fox
Grey Cooper
Maton
George Yonge
America
Lord North
Times
John Cavendish
Edward Astley
Privateer capture and fleet news from 1782 dispatches
An extracted dispatch from March 1782 reports Capt. Seymour Finch on Monsierre capturing a 16 gun French brig, prisoner handling near Dartmouth Range, Gen. Dalling returning from Jamaica aboard the Ranger, and details of British ships in the East Indies. It notes Brimstone Hill’s strategic position, a wreck off Galway with 14 dead, proposed Dublin Royal Exchange Bank plans, and lists several London bankers and merchants including Brown Collinson Tritton and Heaton Tritton, Thomas Parkinson, William Mighell, Henry Ellison, and others.
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Apmiratty-Orrice
Seymour Finch
Monsierr
Dartmouth Range
Falmouth
Dalling
Jamaica
Ranger
Portsmouth
Port Antonio
Vaughan
Florida
Fraser
Island of
St. Christopher’s
Brimstone Hill
Sir Samuel Hood
Baile Terre Road
Lord Holland East-Indiaman
Williams
East-India House
Plymouth
China
East Indies
Superb
Sultan
Hero
Eagie
Exeter
Worcester
Monmouth
Bedford
Magnavime
Monarca
Richard Bickerton
Cork
Ballyvaughan
Ireland
Curacoa
Amsterdam
Galway
Royal Exchange of Dublin
Exchange
Banxkrufts
Tho
Collinson
John Heaton Tritton
Lombardtreet
London
Brown, Collinson, and Vritton
Thomas Parkinson
Lambeth
Surry
William Mighell
Brighthelmstone
Henry Ellison
Whitehaven
James Coxwell
Lower Brook Street
Richard Macauley
Southwark
Richard Lloyd
James de Champreaux
St. Alban’s Street
John Clarke
Cambridge
Jacob Moses
Henry Harris
Isaac Isaacs
Duke's Place
Wm. Mason
Leicester
William Clowes
Conduitstreet
Samuel Sadler
Macclesfield
Household Goods and Stock in Trade of Mr Rospert Arnold Auction
Auction sale at the Bell Inn St Thomas Street begins ten oclock each morning with a large assortment of furniture bedding china glassware and utensils. The stock includes two chairs and harnesses a chariot and harnesses mourning coaches and a coach with white lining plus sixteen horses. Sale of stock in trade occurs Thursday with notices to debtors to pay and creditors to apply to Cornelius Lowdin at Guinea Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AuGioz
Rospert AgNoLon
Bell-Inn
St. Thomas-Street
Cornelius Lowdin
N. B
Ropertr Arnold
Cor
Nelius Lowpin
New and Authentic History of England in Eighty Numbers
A grand periodical history by William Augustus Russel promises an extensive, illustrated survey of Britain from William the Conqueror to the present, with engravings by Grignion and others. Published weekly at sixpence per number, it touts superior copper plates, a single comprehensive volume, and emblems by Mr. Clowes.
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British Empire
Grignion
Walker
White
Taylor, Roberts, &c
Clowes
Saz. Wale
Henry V
France
England
William Augustus Russel
London
J. Cooxx
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Sir Sam. Hood
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E27
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Graves
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Prince William
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John Moss
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Glocester
Farmer Cooke
Butcombe
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