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Privateer exploits and distant war dispatches abroad
A letter from Capt. Woolford aboard Peggy Sloop Privateer reports capturing Castle St Ignatius with heavy armament and 35 small arms, recording injuries to two crew and 2500 pieces of eight seized. News from Paris and Cadiz notes French forces en route to Bavaria, British ships arriving at Jamaica, and Spanish prizes. Further items cover Prussia and Vienna diplomacy, naval movements at Spithead and Gibraltar, and civic events in England including a royal marriage and a cargo theft recovery.
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Mary
Charlotte
Royal
Downs
Woolford
Little Curacco
Margaritas
Jucadas
St. Ignatius
M’donald
Paris
Alsace
Electorate of
Bavaria
Marquis de Maillebois
Cornwall
Stoke
Kent
Beachy.Head
Dover
Royal George
Royal Sovereign
Duke
Marlborough
Essex
Gosport
Cadiz
N.S
Ferrol
Vige
Constantinople
Vienna
Persia
Barbadoes
Princess of Wales
Brsckenbridge
Bristol
Scarborough
Mand
Jam
Carolina
London
St. Sebastians
Paris Alamain
Laon
Prince d’Ardore
King of the Two Sicilies
John Norris
Spithead
Harris
Leghorn
Martin
Ipswich
Pembroke
Sunderland
Plymouth
Salisbury
Gibraltar
Haddock
Dong
Somerset
Lancaster
Warwick
Garland
Neifs
O. S
Prussia
de Neuperg
Carthagena
Vernoy
Rentone
Don Blais
Smith
Hare
Galicia
Den.Blay
Earl of Crawford
Hanover
England
Liverpoole
Thomas Wenton
Watson
Col Watson
America
Hague
Republick
Hungary
Silesia
Netherlands
Edinburgh
Bulau
Fridewalde
Dumachow
Grotkan
Lord Raymond
Miss Blundell
Viscount Blundell
Lord Blundell
Sheen
Richmond
Surrey
Deal
East India
Turky
New-England
Castle
Winchester
Piscataqua
Howard