French Court Insults and British Duty to Respond
A reader laments poor Paris News translations and urges full public communication of France related threats to Britain. The author argues the French court seeks civil strife to curb Britain, warns against appeasement, and calls for prudent, decisive leadership to avoid dangerous concessions.
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Paris
Carreer
Great Britain
France
London Gazette
Court of
Europe
Sweden
Russia
Prussia
Iam
Port News From Deal Dover and Gravesend February Reports
Port News items note ships arriving and departing in February. Charming Nancy Willis sails for Maryland. Advice Blanford Scipio Drake and East India Ships remain at the Downs. Dover reports Hannah Catherine and Elizabeth from Maryland. a ship from New York without disclosed name. Milner Patuxan Merchant from Maryland and others from New England. Venice Warren Galley Huddy arrives from London in 27 days. King George Bradford sails from London to Carolina.
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Deal
Nancy
Willis
Maryland
Blanford
Scipio
Drake
Dover
Hannah
Evers
Catherine
Elizabeth
Chapman
London
New-York
Gravesend
Milner
Dixon
Jolly
Fuller
Anne
Bolton
New-England
Venice
Warren
Huddy
Carolina
Bradford
Justice and marauders haunt Wapping streets at night
Ghosts of sea officers cry for justice while rumors swirl of a Renegade Pilot rich from piracy abroad and seeking royal pardon. Notes on a repaired bomb ketch, a distiller’s death amid a legal case, dispensations for church livings, robberies near Enfield and Rickmansworth, and thieves in Kent are reported alongside cargo imports and stock chatter.
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London
Hofier
Wapping
Porto Rico
Carthagena
Havanna
Woolwich
Shore
Blackman-street
Richard Jackson
Oswalds
Chichester
Prees
Salop
Litchfield
Coventry
Robert Rogers
Lord Colvil
Great Braxted
St. Thomas's Hospital
Bird
Jamaica
Bologne
France
John Smith
Newgate
Justice Bourne
Enfield
Chace
Edward Head
William Ashby
Henry Albin
Rickmantworth
Hertford
William Prew
Alderman Ewer
Henry Butler
Southwark
Cranbrook
Kent
Pluckton
Dunkirk
East India
Gaspowder
Portugal
Flanders
New-England
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Darity Post
London Daily Post
Calia
Philander
Lilliputan
Gulliver
Theatre Royal
Drury - - Lane
Morner
Covent-Garden
Orpheus and
Eurydice
Goodman’s Fields
London Bridge
South Sea
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
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