Transports and prize takings echo Baltic and Cork news
Reports from Stockholm Copenhagen and Warsaw describe transports failing from Finland and Ruffian prizes seized by privateers including four ships with 720 horses. Further notes cover harvest prices, exports, and military moves across Vienna Prague and Paris with Dublin and Naas crime and ship arrivals listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Romanzae
Finland
Holstein
Copenhagen
Korff
Bwedeny
Schleswick
Petersbourg
Lacy
Adon
Willmanstrand
Wybourg
Duke of Brunswick
Admiralty Dock
Schach Nadir
Warsaw
Jewdzia
Radkow
Podolia
Kaminieck
Joso
Poland
Republick
Zamosz
Prague
Vienna
Seckendorff
Wenceslas Wallis
Eugene
Kevenhuller
Upper Austria
Hungary
Bohemia
Ens
Aion
France
Paris
Sorbonne
Abbe Dubourg
Dundee Provost Re-elected and Officials Named
In Dundee today the Magistrates for the coming year elected Alexander Robertson as Provost. Andrew Fergusson George Kinloch John Murray and Patrick Yearden were chosen Baillies. George Lyon became Dean of Guild with William Melvil as Treasurer and James Smith as Convener of the Trades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Dundee
Alexander Robertson
Andrew Fergusson
George Kinloch
John Murray
Patrick Yearden
George Lyon
William Melvil
James ‘Smith
Taylor
Bath chooses Henry Atwood Mayor for the year
The Diamond under Captain Hoar has fallen to Spanish forces and is carried into St Sebastian. In Bristol, last Monday Henry Atwood, a baker, was elected mayor of Bath for the upcoming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country News
Bristol
Hoar
St. Sebastian’s
Henry Atwood
Bath
Port News and Royal Appointments Share London Happenings
Maritime notices recount ships arriving at Cork, Plymouth, Deal and Gravesend from London, Virginia, Maryland and Antigua, with vessels like the Betty Shaw and the Lime Man of War. Royal visits by the Prince and Princess of Wales are noted, alongside a Gibraltar convoy and a new India-Man voyage. Also listed are market prices, banking updates, and a bridge-house land lease notice issued by the Guildhall committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port News
Plymouth
Lamb
Somerton
London
Cork
His
Liverpool
Ogk
Corker
Askew
Barbadoes
Cowes
Spithead
Gosport
Judith
Bradshaw
Minabilly
Blake
New York
Mary
Gravesend
Greenwich
Faulkner
Vernon
Hubbard
St. Kitt’s
Sheppardson
New-England
St. Thomas
Flaerty
Antigua
College
Vaughan
Carolina
Industry
Martin
Maryland
Swift
Smiter
Philadelphia
Prince and Princess of Wales
Cliefden
Charlton House
Duke
Admiral Haddock
Gibraltar
Harrington India
Jenkins
St. Helena
Howie
Blackwall
King-Street
Tower Hill
Davis
Fountain Tavern
Southwark
Shubby
Betty Shaw
Jamaica
Virginia
St. Augustine
Holland
Madeira
East India
West Indies
West-Indies
Bridge-House Landshire
St. Olave Street
Robert Woodiward
Bermondsey Street
Leavesly
Morfley-Down
St. Mary Dagdalen Bermondsey
Joseph Lister
Guildhall
Wittiam Theed
Also Mentioned on This Page
Stockholm
Great Britain
Ireland
Royal Regiment
Col
Lewis Grant
John Ramsay
George Innes
James Forrester
John Shaw
Robert Gawn
James Roddam
Claud Frazie
Naas
Patrick Fleming
Derby
Patrick Tully
Darby Tracy
Stookeen
Loughren
Dowling
Newhal
Dublin
Richard Mounteney
His Majesty’s Court of Exchequer
England
Art
Tenny-Park
Wicklow
Edward Bayly
Charles
Galway
Isles
Aran
Edward
Nicholas Bayly
Hare
Paterson
Attica
Lancaster
Lark
Collison
Leghorn
Don Carlos
Diggs
Dorothy
Trounce
Genoa
Margaret
Boon
Madiera
Boston
Peter and
Philip
Scott
Leeward Ilands
Newfoundland
Henry and
Hooper
Caglary
John
Jaundice
Drake
Archer
Prince of Wales
Keate
St. Cecilia
Stewart
Ditto
Bonetta
Prentis
Francis
Coldwell
London Bridge
South Sea
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
Gopper
Empperor
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