Merchants press for restoring East India trade in old footing
Reports from Vienna, Belgrade, and Dublin detail meetings on reestablishing Oriental Company commerce, subsidies, and fortifications. London and port towns record robberies, deaths, and court notices. ships, privateering bans, and promotions fill the week’s notices.
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Oriental Company
Belgrade
Baron de Faxheim
Aulick Council
Count Neuperg
Hungary
de Schmetrau
Ratisbon
Dyer
Prince de Furstenberg
Fouc
Germany
House of Salm Stakholn
Silesia
Sinclaix
Copenhagen
Edward Finch
Ely
Great Britain
Sweden
Stockholm
London
Port News From Deal Nov 23 Arrivals From Maryland and Jamaica
The outward-bound ships remain in the Downs. Arrived at Deal on Nov 23 are the Success Spencer Partridge Penhallow Expedition Preswick from Maryland the Mary Anne Hargrave from Philadelphia Wind W S Gravesend and the Two Sallys from Newfoundland the Don Carlos from Leghorn and the Charming Sally from Oporto Also the Dunkirk Man of War with outward-bound ships remains in the Downs and the Elizabeth Greave arrived from Jamaica Wind Northwest.
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Downs
Elizabeth
Greave
Jamaica
Letters from Admiral Vernon Hint At Bold Campaign
London letters report Admiral Vernon arrived with his squadron before Pozzo-Bello and landed regular forces to support an attack on the wealthy port. The dispatch suggests preparations for an extraordinary expedition. Last Friday night George Rook, son of the late Admiral Rook, died after a shore illness at his home near Hyde Park.
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Red- Lyon-Steer
Whitechapel
Petit
Dublin
Johnston
Noyes
Cornhill
Mr. Rayment
Barking
White Pott
Gallows Lane
Illford
Woodford
Hounslow-Heath
Epping- Forest
Essex-Roads
William Billers
Compter
Newgate
Patrick Kelly
Col. Williamson
Stockholm
Dunkirk
East-India
Jamaica
London
Vernon
Pozzo-Bello
Truch
Haing
King’s Row
Hyde Park
George Rook
Admiral Rools
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Brown
Hampton Court
Windsor
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Torrington
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Sheerness
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Drake
St. Jago de Cuba
Gibraltar
Sabine
Haddock
Somerset
Lancaster
Edinburgh
Ipwich
Berwick
Plymouth
Grampus
Mercury
Chaloner Ogle
Augusta
Eltham
Augurtus Fitzroy
Lisbon
Spithead
Whitehall
Mann
Florence
N.S
M. Rich¢ourt
Spain
M. Richcourt
M. Braitwitz
Leghorn
Whitebat
Jackson
Genoa
Mark
Republick
Terra Firma
Kingdom of
Corsica
Caparia
Gio. Battisiz
Gaetano Vernengo
Clayton
Hargrave
Peers
Royal Regiment of Welsh Fuzileers
Francis Fuller
Efy
Regiment of Foot-Guards
Regiment of Foot
John Hewlett
St. Giles In the Fields
Middlesex
John Derwas
Abbingdon
Berks
Thomas Bourne
Ludgate-street
Wintner
Wilkinson Brathwaite
Thames Street
Wine-Cooper
William Rogers
Basinghall-street
Carpenter and Chapman
John Millson
St. Marylebon
Robert Finch
Castle-Alley
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