Letter on Army Pay Reform and Navy News Fragment
A reader submits a long letter contrasting Napoleon’s army conduct with a 1732 pamphlet proposing savings by reducing army pay and reforming clothing and provisioning. The piece critiques high English troop pay during peace and outlines a plan with per diem scales, clothing reforms, and sinking fund impact, ending with port news from Deal, Portsmouth, and Liverpool.
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Napirx Suan
Paris
Robert Walpole
Spain
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Reverend Henry Breary dies at Norton rector of Boxworth
York March 29 reports the death of Rev. Mr Henry Breary of Boxworth Cambridge shire at Norton. Also note robberies in the region as Mr John Kirton is robbed near Hull Beverley of 4461 Cath. A highwayman injures him and flees. Mark Nottingham is hanged at Tyburn the same day. Various naval and commercial items and local deaths are listed.
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England
France
Britain
York
Norton
Ramsden
Henry Breary
Boxworth
Cambridgeshire
John Kirton
Carpenter
Cath
Hull
Beverley
Mark Nottingham
King’s Highway
Hemingbrough
Tyburn
Edward Snowden
Christopher Abbot
Arthur Kay
John Righton
Guildhall
London
Jersey
Norris
Batish Channel
Lisbon
Woolwich
Speak
White Hart Inn
Bromley
Kent
London Pridge
Gracechurch-Street
Jesus-Oliphant
Esg
Manning
Change
Cheapside
Mr. Hopkins
William Cotton
St. James’s
Whitehall
Duke’ of
Hermitage
Newman
Southwark
Clapham
Stockwell
St. Thomas’s Hospital
Portsmouth
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