Stockport Cotton Manufactory to be sold by auction
Stockport stock and workshops to be offered at public sale in August if not privately disposed, including the cotton works on Watsons Carrs Hillgate with streams, reservoirs, water wheels, and a fire engine. Lots cover factories, dwellings, warehouses, gardens, and land with chief rents, totaling 466 pounds 3 shillings 7 pence yearly net. Mortgage option available for two thirds of Lots 1 2 and 3. Auction details by Philip Brierley and Holland Watson, Stockport.
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Stockport
Getuste
Chester
Watson’s
Carrs
Philip Brierley
Lorger
Samuel Oldknow
John Stead
James Maffey
Stringer
Hillgate
Holland Watson
Private Dinner Plan Endorsed by Crown and Anchor
A letter warns against a private dinner at the Crown and Anchor Strand on Thursday August fourth. Tickets are circulated to a chosen circle for a meeting supporting a cause, with Mary’s Ode after dinner. The author urges countermanding the event to avoid public disturbance and French Revolution sympathies.
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Crown
Anesor
Strand
Publicly Revealed Sorrow of a London Seduction Case
A female recounts her fall from a North of England boarding-school to a London seduction, where a village clergyman lured her with affection and opium tainted wine. The tale ends with abandonment in a Covent Garden tavern and a ruined reputation, framed by the narrator as a critique of predatory men in sacred garb.
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Benng
England
Sill
London
Chaol
Pan
Covent Garden
Lst
Night on the Piazzas to Survival in London
A narrator recalls wandering the Strand in hunger and cold, taken in by a girl who leads her to a lodgings house. She endures forced labor, a strict overseer, and dire threats, eating sparingly and working long hours while contemplating escape as night falls. The tale ends with a restless vigil past midnight amid a wary street.
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Strand
Extract from a Letter on the Falls of the Ohio 1791
An extract dated April 13 1791 from a gentleman at the Falls of the Ohio to Winchester Virginia recounts peril on the river. It details an attack by about 60 to 70 Indians on a boat bound for a French station, firing on shore guards and boarding attempts. Five or six downstream boats faced assaults with repeated gunfire and two men killed five wounded, two survivors defending the craft.
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Falls of the Ohio
Winchester
Virginia
Fort Pitt
Limestone
Macdonald
Riots and soldiers quell Sheffield disturbance report
A Wednesday riot in Sheffield prompted a light dragoon detachment from Nottingham to restore order after townspeople demolished the jail and Mr Fox and Mr Wilkinson's properties. Dragoons dispersed the crowd, two maimed. heavy troops arrived from York, magistrates at the Tontine Inn, and calm restored with many rioters taken into custody. News notes fire at Norwood hall and Earl Fitzwilliam's arrival to aid peace efforts.
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Sheffieln, Ily
Nottingham
Light Dragoons
Stannington
Hallam
Birmingham
Tontine Inn
Broomhall
Wilkinson
Light Horse
Vincent Eyre
Ely
York
Tontine
Norwood-hall
Earl Fitzwilliam
Sheffield
Newcastle
Pottern
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American Intelligence
The
New York Daily Gazettee
Kerso
John Sinclair
Albster
Northumberland
Roxburgh
Selkirkshires
Lord Buchan
Jedburgh
Sir John
St. Boswell’s Fair
Galashiels
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