Remark on Mr Webber Scheme and Draper Pamphlet
A reader denounces a hostile pamphlet attack on the Daily Post and Mr Webber and the Draper, defends the paper, and challenges authorship and motives. The letter mixes scorn for insinuations about government influence with a broader notes on military and diplomatic rumors from Passau Vienna and Wybourg. It accuses the Remarker of treachery and urges evidence before claims about wool imports and British manufactures.
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Webber
Draper
Daily Post
Gazetteer
Mr. Webber
England
Ireland
Weber
Great Britain
France
Sorbonne Meeting Over Bull Unigenitus Return
Yesterday arriving news from Paris reports an extraordinary Sorbonne meeting where the Syndic read a Lettre de Cachet ordering all doctors to again accept the Bull Unigenitus, with no further conditions disclosed. The move signals renewed enforcement of papal decree within academic circles.
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Sorbonne
Fire consumes Norton seat owner in suspicious blaze
Gloucester reports Sir William Keyte of Norton perished in a house fire, said to be started by himself amid servants' efforts to save him. Corn prices vary with Wheat at 4s 8d to 5s, Barley 2s 6d to 2s 8d, Oats 2s 8d to 3s, Beans 3s to 4s. Newcastle: Sunderland storm wrecks Woodhouse of Scarborough and crew saved with losses.
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Gloucester
William Keyte
Norton
Mickleton
Newcastle
Sunderland
Scarborough
Ward
Dunn
Stephenson
Port News from Plymouth to Dover Arrivals and Departures
Maritime notices from Plymouth Cowes Deal and Dover list arrivals including Brockhampton Till from Armsworth and Unity from Newcastle. Ships sail for Hamburg London Rotterdam and Dunkirk with Chatham and Torrington among vessels. Other ports report arrivals from Carolina St Kitts Lon on Rhode Island Barbados and Barbados for Bristol.
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Plymouth
Brockhampton
Till
Armsworth
Portsmouth
Prince William
Pike
Oporto
Says
Tenby
Rotterdam
Dolphin
Martin
Padstow
Dunkirk
Pool
Thompson
Newcastle
Cowes
Mary Gally
Cross
Carolina
Hambourg
Carton
Cork
Guernsey
Three Friends
Roundtree
St. Kitt’s
London
Deal
Arriv
His Majesty
Chatham
Torrington
Seaford
Wind S. W
Lifton
Vernon
Poynter
Figara
John and Lucy
Miller
Lonon
Hull
Newport
Crawford
Rhode Island
The
Carr
Chambers
Haverfordwest
Princess Augusta
Gwynn
Barbadoes
Bristol
Notorious highwaymen and privateering notes from Tyburn
Anne Eccles in St Georges Fields reports road works and looting on a major thoroughfare. Henry Cook the Stratford shoemaker and three others were executed at Tyburn after penitent conduct. Mary Harris condemned for child stripping. Elizabeth Hardy reprieved. Trade tallies list imports from the Streights and exports to Georgia, Pennsylvania, Antigua, and Newfoundland via privateers, with high water and financial prices recorded.
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Anne Eccles
Kingston
Henry Cook
Stratford
Joseph Hudson
Patrick Bourn
Mary Harris
Tyburn
Lamb
Elizabeth Hardy
Streights
Oporto
Dunkirk
Georgia
Pensylvania
Antigua
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Passau
Vienna
Strasbourg
Old Brisac
Frybourg
Petersbourg
Wybourg
Paris
Country News
Port News
Spithead
John Norris
Golden Square
John Horsley
Nicholas Lane
Lombardtreet
Cambridge
Rye
Nicholas Miller
John Roberts
Southwark
St. Sebastian’s
Jane
Arriv’d
Newfoundland
London Bridge
Prem
Axa
John Waite
David Legros
Everal Hoowles
Peul’s Court
Wood Street
Lapédary
James Hopkins
Lombard-Street
J. Roberts
Oxford Arms
Warwick Lane
Meadows
Cornhill
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