Dreadful hurricane in the Ganges and allied disasters
Account from Povient dated May 26 1738 reports a violent hurricane at the mouth of the Ganges reaching 60 leagues up river, heavy rain raising water 13 inches in six hours, earthquakes destroying hundreds of houses, ships wrecked and losses including 20 000 vessels, with English and Dutch fleets damaged. Marine news, court ceremonies, and various notices fill the rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ganges
Galgora
Chandegnagee
Frito
Chandernagoe
Philibert
India
Mat
Maurepas
China
Arriva
Je of Bourbon
Chauvelin
Tryton
Batavia
Japan
Port News Remaik and Remaik in The Downs
In May port entries show a Dutch East India ship named St George passing by The Downs along with crews and vessels from Cadiz Antigua and Montserrat. Names noted include Tan ner Leyland Blesing Hubert and others. The brief list records arrivals and passage rather than detailed events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port News
Deal
Remaik
Downs
Benjamin
Naw
Leyland
Hubert
Antigua
London Letter Patersourg May 15 Coronation Eve
The 8th instant, eve of the Empress's coronation, the court was very numerous in the evening and her Imperial Majesty received compliments from the nobility and foreign ministers, after which there was a fine event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tralian
Mperial
Poland
Baron de Trydén
Dresden
Courland
Peform
Empresa
Neva
Admiralty Office
Italia
Winter Palace
Summer Palace
Venice
Two Sicilies
Arziy
Balma-Nuova
Belgrade
Oliver Wallis
Semlin
Walowa
London
Patersourg
Market Quotation Fragments from South Sea and Bonds
Fragmentary quotation list shows South Sea Annuities and bonds with varied fractions, including new annuities, bank circulations, Prem India stock, Three Percent, and Exchequer orders. Mentions London ditto rates and several per cent figures with scattered half and quarter notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Sea
New South Sea
Bank
Prem
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London
Ditto
Adventure
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Povient
Paris
Me. Turvile
Long Cranston
Szieler
Seaford
Sussex
William Hay
Robert Walpole
Robert
Dowhing-street
Westminster
Hans Sloane
Hult
Douglas
Grosvenor Square
Panny Tufton
Saville ‘Tufton
Earl of
Tower
Richard. Marriott
Ordnance
Duke of Argyll
Bromley
Bow
Thomas Cross, Bart
Mill Bank
St. Margaret’s Church
Lord Viscount Sundon
Robert Grosvenor
John Lade
Wiliam Bellafy
Major Saville
William Peer Williams
Dunkirk
Monsieur
John Bugden
Old Egily
Newgate
Jané Simms
Justice Farmer
Hannah Searle
Eliz. Braburn
Read
Elizabeth Davis
Fustice -Barmer
William Grigg
Wiio
Evi Dence
Joseph Thawley
Margaret Shaw
Angie Chapman
James Searle
Holland
Portugal
Covent-Garden
London Bridge
Essex-Street
Opposte
Devereux-Coust
Oporto
Thac
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