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The piece reports on Royal Navy command changes with Parvis in Parliament, the East India Company planning new voyages and tonnage for the season, and a wedding of two beggars in Preston amid bizarre merriment. It also notes a Bristol Amelia voyage encounter with six Cadiz galleons, charitable bank subscriptions led by Heathcote, Quicksilver ship reports from Cadiz, Muscovy military troop counts, and a September storm causing damage to houses and chimneys.
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Flanders
George Parvis
Aldborough
Folk
Royal Navy
Trinity
Deptford
Thomas Hardy Deach
Eat India Company
India
Port St. George
Bay of Bengal
Bombay
Mocha
St. Helena
Bencoolen
China
Preston
Lancahire
Walton
Jon
Amelia
Bristol
Cadiz
Gilbert Heathcote
Gorgias
John Byles
South Sea
Mathew Decker
East India Company
N. S
Vera Crez
Muscovy
Wart
Mr. Locke
Miaac Newton
Wollaston
Dr. Clarke
Hermitage
Richmond