Spain Resolves To Siege Gibraltar From Minorca
Paris reports a Spanish court decree authorizes siege of Gibraltar with Major de Crillon commanding. The combined Minorca army will reinforce St Rohe’s camp. Pilace is expected to fall to sea and land pressure, with Crillon likely to claim conquest within about six months of the operation.
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Paris
Spain
Gibraltar
Minorca
St. Eet Rothe
M. de Crillon
Pilace
Duke de Crillyn
Europe
Portsmonth harbor squadron at Spithead report
The quadroon now at Spithead lists ships fit for sea with stores aboard. The force includes three of foo guns, five of go, seven of 74, one of 70, three of 64, one of 60, two of .50, seven frigates, four sloops, three cutters, and five freships. Several local items note robberies, murders, and accidents across Oxford, Reapine, Sauispury, Barmine Hay, and Wolverhampton, including a mail theft case, a fatal coach robbery, a murder near Bradfield, and a child burned in Digbeth.
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Portsmonth
Spithead
Oxford
Haddon
Warwick
Banbury
Hereford
Robert West
John Davis
Wallingford
John Simmonds
Sauispury
Ringwood
John Burfey
Milton
Hants
Winchester
London Mail
Blandford
Cathmore Inn
Barmine Hay
Stourbridge
Nathan Andrews
Sheffield
High Road
Kirkedge
Bradfield
Francis Fearn
Andrews
Fearn
Bradford
Shefield
York Castle
Digbeth
Wolverhampton
Elizabeth
Tragic arsenic tragedy ends in young woman's death
Hollies, about 19, after a quarrel with her mother, bought arsenic, mixed it with milk, and drank the poisoned mixture. She lied at first by calling it rice milk. After rapid illness she confessed. A surgeon tried to save her, but she died within five hours.
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Hollies
Bristol Hotwells
James Barton
Great-Britain
N.B
Foreman
Bristot
Royal proclamation extends seamen bounties to June
London dispatches report the King in Council extending bounties for able seamen, ordinary seamen, and able bodied landmen to June 30. The piece also covers petitions in the House of Peers on Cricklade franchise, Lord North’s duties, proposed tax reforms, and naval orders including listing new ships and officers.
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House of Peers
Lord North
Treasury
House of Commons
Minster
Richmond
Manchester
Graffden
Earl Temple
Lord Camden
Dunning
Wallace
Mansfield
Kenyon
St. John’s
Admiralty
Rainbow
Trollope
Myrmidon
Resistance
King
Crocodile
Photon
Waldegrave
Prudente
Plymouth
Everton
Lisbon
Fourteen French transports driven ashore on coast of France
Prosecutions begun in the city for raising prices on salt pork and other goods before the act. tobacco soap and malt beer prices also hiked before the act. Exeter assizes convict several for horse stealing burglary and murders. John Trathing and Elizabeth Waldron receive capital convictions.
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France
Exeter
John Harris
James
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