Merchants urged to revive old trade laws for protection
A London merchantal letter calls for reviving Queen Anne era laws to shield commerce from privateers and impressment, urging merchants to equip ships for defense, support cruisers, and ensure secure trade through armed ships and convoys amid ongoing war risks. It cites Bristol and Liverpool as examples and links imperial supply lines to North American colonies and Ireland.
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Lords of the Admiralty order sloops to sea and man Strafford
In London the Lords of the Admiralty ordered all sloops and tenders to sea to protect trade and ordered the Strafford a sixty gun man of war to be manned for channel service under Capt Edward Legge. Also Dr Saunders named physician to St Helena by East India Company directors.
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Nourse
Peter
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