Proclamations on Wool Exports Stir Irish Trade Debate
A letter from c D P.S. notes Irish Proclamation urging restraint on wool exports may compel policy change. It lists pamphlets arguing for protecting the British wool trade, citing Swift, Walpole, and Webley schemes. References include James Horam, an attorney and former agent to the Earl of Antrim, who died in Corn Market.
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Ireland
Offijerty
Fofiah Child
Dean Swift
England
Robert Walpole
Great Britain
C.forman
Russia
Portugal
Prussia
Sardinia
L_ am seasible
London Evening Post
Carlisle
Cumberland
Dragoons
Preston
Mundit
Jengys
Mullingar
Dublin Vagabond Mary Fielding Presented by Grand Jury
In Dublin the fury of Friday last involved Mary Fielding aged upwards six or seven, presented by the Grand Jury as a vagabond. She was brought into the Court of King's Bench and traversed the Indictment, declaring she had spent twenty years in...
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Ireland
Dublin
Mary
Fielding
King’s Bench
Murder by Mary Campbell prompts Edinburgh gaol
A late July report notes a violent incident between travellers and Tinkers near Haddington and Penston. Mary Campbell stabbed a laborer twice in the back, killing him, wounding another, and fleeing with others who were captured later at Ormistone and Winton. A separate dispatch from Greenock reports the Elizabeth of Glasgow carrying news of seven English ships seized by a Spanish warship near Virginia, with tobacco hogsheads aboard.
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Edinburgh
Mr. Cameron
Haddington
Penston
Winton
Greenock
Elizabeth
Dolphin’s bold duel with a Genoese privateer at sea
A Bristol letter details Captain Francis Saul’s rescue of a Galley after a June chase. With 17 men, Saul opened with two broadsides, crippling the Privateer, whose crew leapt overboard or fought among the wreckage. Saul towed the captured ship 34 hours until weather broke a hawser, then continued voyage. London admiralty news: Capt. John St Lo appointed to Princess Amelia, and multiple ships reported captured or taken by Spaniards off Cape Virginia and Dunkirk. Market notes and a London election pitch complete the page.
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Bristol
Yarmouth
Dolphin
Francis Saul
Oliver
Saul
London
Board of Admiralty
John St. Lo
Portsmouith
Hemmington
Pharour
Barbadoes
Carol Ina
Prosperous
Carolina
Botton
Gregg
Dicto
Amsterdam
Stockford
Biddeford
New York
Hopewell
Prout
Maryland
Capes
Virinia
Neptune
Tivito
Newcastle
Weymouth
Dunkirk
Blythe
Scotland
Wilkinson
Sunderland
Chesterfield
Wood
Antigua
Cape Clear
Falmouth
Somerset
Saunders
Virginia
Cape Hatter
Nazareth
Tobin
PORT NEWS DEAL JULY 11 LISTS SHIPS ARRIVING AND SAILING
Port notices record arrivals and departures on July 11 including vessels such as the Royal Escape from Falmouth, the Lyon for Chester, the Dolphin from Amsterdam to New York, and many others passing Dover and Whitehaven. Multiple ships from Antigua London Jamaica Barbadoes and Africa are named with captains and origins.
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Port News
Deal
Fuly
Ellis
Francis
Betty
Hoskins
Falmouth
Lyon
Chester
George
Elizabeth
Aihne
Cabbott
Scilly
Dover
Attir
Dixon's Bay
Hubbard
Radford
Simmons
Antigua
Antilla
Sarai
London
Rainbow
Owen
Africa
Virginia
Dunkirk
Witherden
John
Friend
Jamaica
Maynard
Reynold
Gibraltar
Henrietta
Tremble
Barbadoes
Hanover
Rumney
Edward
Anne
Yaiman
Britte
Whitehaven
Mazaréne
Kelsick
Virinia
Qid Calabar
Gurney
Cumberland
White
Liverpool
Tovey
Cornwall
Richards
Amoretta
Crede
Prince of Orange
Campbell
Brittot
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Dare Post
London Bridge
South Sea
Soursh Sea
New South Sea
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Ditto
Emros
Robert Godschall
Deceas
Asa
Wistners Hall
Toummof
Wriciram
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