Proposal to restrict wool trade and build warehouses debate
A letter argues against a plan to store and regulate wool and yarn across the three kingdoms. It warns private monopolies harm trade, risks cruel charges on wool owners, and fears Britons losing domestic manufacture to foreign buyers. The piece cites French wealth from wool and stresses impact on workers and poor communities. It questions Webber's registry as a credible basis for the scheme.
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Woolf
Thas
Labuhix
Prench
Britain
France
Port News Briefs Reveal Arrivals and Debts at Sea
Port News from Feb 18 records ships in the Downs and Gravesend with names such as Blast, Winter, Mary Farlé, and Elis Francis heading to destinations like Barbadoes, Carolina, Topsham, Philadelphia, and Falmouth. Arrivals include Bonetta Chambérlape and Prosperous Clapett bound for Yarmouth. Revivals at several ports note vessels from Philadelphia to Pool and London to Gibraltar, with a parade of ships listed.
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Deal
Walker
Barbadoes
Neptune
Carolina
Mary
Farlé
Topsham
Keigwell
Philadelphia
Elis
Francis
Hill
Joe Moryan
Arriv
Bonetta
Chambérlape
Clapett
Yarmouth
Gravesend
Mafra
Smith
Lisbon
Blackabee
Dunkirk
Caroling
Cydia
Allen
Alezajides
Cabbott
New England
Fownfhead
Richard-and -Julius
Yalbot
Endeavour
Sewardy
Robert
John
Cooke
Engagement with a Spanish privateer near Scilly
London reports detail a naval engagement between Captain Charles Gwynn of the Princess Augusta and a Spanish privateer off Scilly. The English brigantine was attacked in the afternoon. after exchanges of fire and a broadside, the privateer blew up. The Nokia Signora de la Rosaria y las Animas is described, with crew and armament noted.
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Charles Gwynn
Bristol
Scilly
Whdgh
Dela Rosaria
Carolina
Plymouth
St Beattian’s
Saul
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Markluain
Royal Exchange
Miss Bellamy
Daugheter
Edward Bellamy
Billingsgate Ward
Yeterday
Vide
Westminster School
Red-Lyon-Street
Spital-fields
Kempton
Tuet@aya
Bear-Key
Col. de. Vell
Robert Rhodes
Robinson
Richard Beilliat
Streights
Ditikirk
Virginia
London’ ‘Bridge
Mullion Bank
Raval “Exchange “Assurance
Beth
India
Mine Adventures
Warhy Liverymen
Avery Giest
Wintners- Hall
Geld
Huvipury Parsons
Baker Mayo
Joan Barnard
Kail
Ronear Gorrey
George Heathcote
George Big Flufirious
Renee
East India House
Johe Court of Directors
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United Company
Macian
Leadgnhall Street
Faid
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