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Island cargo recovered as relief arrives after ship’s misfortunes
The master, exhausted and moneyless in a strange land, saw his crew’s cargo hidden by islanders. Sheriff-admiral Campbel and officials recovered nine pipes of wine and forty boxes of citizen, securing the vessel. The captain and crew of six plus a boy reportedly reached Inveraray. Also, a St Andrew’s Day Masonry meeting elected William St. Clare of Rotlin as Grand Master, while Edinburgh laments road safety abuses by coals and wagon drivers, recounting a fatality from Long-Hermiston and a jailed Somerville over a highway incident.
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Campbel
Stonefield
M’neil
Irnverary
St. Andrew's Day
Scotland
Society of Free and Accepted Masons
St. Mary’s Chapel
Will
St. Clare of Rotlin
Edinburgh
King’s Highway
Wren
John Somerville
Long-Hermiston
Somerville
Cit
Gorgie