Portsmouth Fleet Pay Dispute Triggers Admiralty Action
A lengthy report from Portsmouth outlines seamen protests over pay with petitions to Lord Brport and officers. The Admiralty, Lords Spencer Agnew and Admiral Pore accompanied by Mr Marspen, travel to Portsmouth to resolve the dispute. The piece notes orderly seamen, calls for a pay increase, and anticipates a prompt settlement favorable to the fleet.
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Portsmouth
Lord Baipport
Board of Admiralty
Lord Bripport
Allan Gardner
Beropor
Admiralty
Lord Spencer
Poe
Poe, Staid With His Lordship and:'Mr. Nepean
Earl Spencer
Lord Agnew
Admiral Pore
Mr. Marspen
The Tragedy of the London Merant at Theatre
Yesterday evening the London Merant tragedy closed its season with a successful run drawing a decent audience. Mrs Sionexs offered a strong portrayal while the Muse of Linto and Milawood characters drew mixed views. Be a Little Fanny’s Love remained a public favorite with Dex Caro earning applause for neat acting.
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London
Merant
Sionexs
Milawood
Linto
Fanny
Dex Caro
Cure for the Heart Act at Covent Garden Theatre
The pleasant Comedy of Cure for the Heart Act was performed at Covent Garden Theatre with diminished effect and the Rapids family delivering credit to themselves and profit to the manager. It was followed by the Paritomime of the Chateau Gréta, with well executed additions and judiciously disputed interludes, all providing great entertainment to the public.
Sugar Cane Sails Into Battle With French Frigate
Ship Sugar Cane, armed as a letter of marque, sailed from Atta bound to Barbadoes with 460 slaves. On February 7 near Barbadoes it engaged the French frigate Medea, suffering 30 killed and wounded, their ship damaged and sinking, before surrendering. Medea, under Vitter Hughes squadron, carried 49 guns and 320 men and to Guadaloupe they were treated poorly. The squadron had captured over 30 merchantmen since December 1796, valued at about half a million pounds.
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Monfient de Freurier
Manent
Conte de Mansiani
Council of Elders
Constituent Assembly
Legislative ‘Assembly
Venrdemiaire
de Nitieres
Dred
Dred. Co ye"The Celebrated Abbe Srey Fs
Pout
Dragugman
Silves
St. Kitt’s
Learit
England
Barbadoes
Demarara
Grance Parscorr
Bankers
Pitt
Favern
Hamburgh
Henley Upon Thames
Lawbon
Worcester College
Lord Brome
Louisa Gorpon
Piccadilly
Cornwallis
Litchfield
Kincardineshire
Board of Agriculture
London
Admiralty
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Lord Srence Raw
Nepean
Anne
Grarge
Wits
Srantherant
Farren
Oxford Wirlings
Bampton
Crorcy
Muth
Worcester and Birmingham
Bittern
Cadiz
Buenos Ayres
South Seas
Pembroke Regiment
Fencible Cavalry
Nottingham
Colombo
Ceylon
George Petyie
Suniday
Liverpool
Ernest
Johns
Tortola
Vitter Hughes
Medea
Guadaloupe
Vitor “Hugues
Quadron
Martinique
Arrival of the Packet and French Aristocrats on Dominica
The packet’s arrival brings relief to French aristocrats on the island who fear a return to the French Republic. Viéloy Hagues mobilizes 7000 troops for invasion, but our frigates around Guadeloupe watch closely. Trade is trifling with recent importations of bill pieces filling the money supply.
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Guasdaloupe
Proclamation Prohibits English Merchandise in Spain
Abstract outlines Spain's Proclamation banning import of British goods and any with British port origins, offering 15 days to deliver in possession and six months to sell listed items. Confiscation for non declaration, sale by auction after six months, penalties for intentional concealment, and export routes via Cadiz to West Indies. Three months post schedule, no goods from foreign parts without official certificate.
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Court of
Spain
Great Britain
Ion
Cadiz
West
Indies
England
France
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Moan
Marquess Cornwatuis
Bengal
Lord Mornington
India
Coan
Prince of Wirt Embene
Prince of
War-office
Texel
Brest
Channel
Dunkirk
Joan-Jervis
Ropers Caper
Lisbon
Joan Jervis
Cott
Windsor
Mary
Wates
Critchell
Wirtembergh
Lufpruck
Gaanam
Clagenfurth
Infprick
Archduke Rouft
Austria
Vienna
Kerren
Brixen
Inspruck
Dominica
Huevues
Ows
Trindad
Drury-Lave
Covent-Garden
Ship News
Falmouth
ST. Pierre
Mariineque
Fen
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