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Newspaper

Bristol Journal

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Oct 06, 1787

Page

4

Press-warrants issued as seamen mobilize for ships

Reports from the Admiralty show press-warrants issued since Friday the 22d for seamen raised by Regulating Captains. A house in Orchard-street, Westminster, was raided by a press gang. a man attempted escape from a roof and fell to his death. Sheriffs-elect Fenn and Skinner and Matthew Bloxam were sworn in at Guildhall. An apple tree at Crawley, Surrey bears a second crop after four bushels were gathered. Powell the walker completed a Canterbury to London Bridge wager in under 24 hours, covering 11 2 miles with overall time noted.

Thames Admiralty Office Orchard-street Westminster James Fenn Ely Matthew Bloxam Guildhall Crawley Surrey J. Chitty Powell Walker Canterbury London Bridge Lewes Brighthelmstone Mitchell Cary-street Pitt Duke of Richmond Lord Carmarthen Lord Sydney Marquis of Stafford Lord Howe Lord Camden Mr. Grenville East West Indies Grenville Paris Barthelemy D‘adhemar Versailles London Amsterdam Duke of Brunswick Amterdam Bank of Amsterdam Duke of Orleans France

Violent Storms and Tragic Deaths Reach Midlands and Yorkshire

Country wires report a fierce thunder storm with heavy rain and hail across Newcastle and Durham with ice pieces three inches around. A fatal accident near Kirby-moor fidet involves a pig killing a six month old child after a rock of events left the cradle unattended. Smuggling vessels off Saltburn Staiths Yorks port report large contraband cods. In Birmingham a discharged patient named Isaac Rooke appeared dead near Derby but revived as surgeons prepared coroner’s inquiry.

Country News Newcastle Durham Hutton Kirby-moorfidet Saltburn Staiths Yorkshire Birmingham Isaac Rooke St. Bartholomew’s Hospital London Chesterfield Derby St. Peter's Church

Deadly convulsions and near burial revival amid licencing clashes

A man recovering from a convulsion fit recalls being presumed dead and nearly buried alive before reawakening. In Holywell licencing, eight public houses had licences refused to curb immorality. Isle of Man reports a horrific hurricane causing many fishing-boat losses, up to sixty to seventy expected deaths, with wrecks near Douglas and in Wales.

Holywell Liverroot Isle of Mann Cath Alto Douglas Quey Wales

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