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Wool and crime on the English coast and city
Reported debate on Raw Wool manufacture and coastal smuggling impact, with casualties from a pistol attack on Mr. Roberts, thefts at a Soho pawnbroker, a capital conviction at the Old Bailey, and notes on Glasgow operatives and Count Orloff in London. Also describes a Cornhill incident of a husband pursuing his wife and a strange political intrigue amid Haymarket theater gossip.
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France
Roberts
Excise
Little Towerhill
St. Catherine’street
Mr. Self
Soho
Old Bailey
Thomas Reidy
John M‘daniel
James Lewis
Hannibal
Epincburgh
Henry M’indoe
Operative Weavers
Glasgow
William Honeyman
Lanarkshire
Tate
Cornhill
Royal Exchange
Compter
Barnet
Haymarket
Dallas
Hastings
East India Company
Mendip
Fea
Flower
Lewis
Carmarthen
Morning Star
Daniel
Cardigan
Sisters
Law
Greenock
Mary
John
Swansey
Friends
Coote
Bridgwater
Common Council
Alexander Edgar
Esq
John Morgan
Robert Claxton
Elgrs
Blake
Stockland-Bristol
Rimbron
St. Nicholas
John Parsons
Bridewell
Bath and Wells
Abbey Church
Bath
Wm. Hurt
Gabalva
Glamorganshire
Eddgile
Berner-street
London
St. James’s Church
John Davies
Young
Clare-ieet
Frampton Cottrel
Glocestershire
Daniel Taylor
Mary Wilthhire
Inftant
Hota Wells
George Ottley
Bush
Clare-{treet
Mr. Cary
Cafe de Green
Thomas Colls
Marlborough-street
Hotwells
Capper
Peter Capper
Gloucester
Worcester
Hereford
Glocester
Society
Corn-street
Cook
Bush Tavern
County of Glocester
Charles Wesley Coxe
Merchant-Taylors? Hall
Broad-street
Parker
Assembly-Room
Prince’s-street
Duke of Beaufort
Thomas Master
Elfy
Knights of the Shire
Fiennes Trotman
Northampton
William Hayward Winstone
Hayward Winstone
Joseph Weston
Widcomb
Blue Lodge
Welton
Justices of Bathforum
Thomas Davis
Susanna Milledge
Newgate