English bombardment spreads panic and exodus near port
Reports describe nighttime bombardment and a mass panic with over 30,000 inhabitants taking refuge in the surrounding area. Allied forces reinforce from Gibraltar as ships approach. Borders and trade suffer with claims of large sums lost. officials criticize government inactivity and aim to protect a Buenos Ayres convoy valued at about 12 million piastres amid rising tensions.
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Bor Ich
Gibraltar
Vincent
Buenos Ayres
Price of Stocks and Naval News From The Admiralty
Reports from London detail Admiralty dispatches on Admiral Duncan blockading the Texel harbour with 19 two deckers, plus reinforce ments. Paris and London politics, Royal family audiences, and naval exploits dominate, including Captain Weldon’s Fame vs Le Leopard near the Lizard and Mr Brooks delivering dispatches from Lord Malmesbury. The piece also notes royal appearances, public notices, and varied military reports.
Prince of Wales Packet Arrives as Papers Seized
At 12.1 last night the Prince of Wales Packet from Calais, Capt. Surron, arrived with Mr. Brooks the Messenger. Harbor officers ordered her to station mid harbour and prevent landing or any communication with passengers except the Messenger and Captain until papers are released.
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Brooks
Prince of Wales
Surron
Calais
Metsenger
Trial of Mutineers of the Montague at Spithead
A private letter describes the Montague mutineers trials at Spithead on Wednesday July 26. Sentences included two hangings upon Admiralty order and three months solitary for two witnesses, with two acquittals. A Flora crewman was lashed twice dozen on his ship. Pompée and Mars fleets loot topsails and sail for reinforcement. Portisa Fair begins. Montague death row prisoners moved to Spithead aboard the Puissant under guard.
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Spithead
Montague
Bers
Marthalsen
Flora
Piat
Pompée
St. Helen’s
Mars
Barpoort
Xayal
Hefor
Tribune
Succos
Portsmouth
Peeter Parker
Spithean
Pujfant
Trial of Thomas Jepifer for mutiny and sedition aboard Sandwich
In Greenhithe on July 27 the prisoner faced charges of mutinous assemblies uttering seditious expressions concealing and suppressing words against the king and government and being present at a mutiny without disclosure. Testimony linked him to band performances during fleet rounds and to remarks praising mutiny and Ireland as a supply base. He defended his honesty, the court found part proven, and he was sentenced to 100 lashes on the bare back aboard suitable ships.
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Lady Manners
Burke
Brighton
E.O
Prince
Jersey
Lord Crermont
Joan
Lady Lave
Charles,Wynouam
Doagres Bun- Bury
Lory CuanceLior
Kent
Louen- Borouca
Deal Castle
Gat
Gibraltar
New South Wales
France
Brazils
Nova Colonia
St. Augustine
Philips
Portugal
Joan Wetton
Rio Janeiro
London
le Leopard
L’orient
Fame
Weldon
le Terrible
Brazil
Oo Lo
Moreau
Marshal Murcane
Germany
Moreux
Ireland
Saxe’s
Norfolk
Douglas
Huntingdonshire
Erskine
Garrow
Bath and Wells
Crarres
Willinng
Dean Crienton
Blackfriars Bridge
Ftogele
Thomas Jepifer
Sandwich
Thomas Phipps Hewson
Parker
King Geordz
Buly Pitt
Lord Northuess
Knntur
Ulster
England
Duke of Beprorp
Watson
Powell
Mark Drummond
Lords of the Admiralty
Sloops and convoys sail from Cork to the Westward and to the Downs
Plymouth and Portsmouth dispatch reports describe Hazard, La, Orestes, and Sufitante sloops on cruises and convoys destined for the Westward, the Downs, and New York. Fairy sails with a convoy to the Downs, outward-bound India men remain at St Helens, Harpy sails for New York while outward-bound to Portsmouth amid variable winds.
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Plymouth
Cork
Orestes
Portsmouth
Downs
Remszin
St. Helen’s
Deal
New York
Irish State Lottery and Marriages from a British Notice
The item lists lottery draws with numbers 6207 2349 1453 and a large prize total. It reports marriages including Mr Alan of Mile-End weds Miss Mary Martin and Capt Carleton and Capt Wilson connections to Belford family. Also notes deaths of Lt Col Bruce in India and Rear Admiral Bligh and Bishop William Ashburnham with brief circumstances.
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Frawn
Alen
Mile-Erd
Mary Martin
Carleton
Fifteenth Light Dragoons
Lord Dorchester
Prifecilla Belford
Prifecilla Belford , and Capt. Wilson
Jemuma Belford
Adam Williamson
K. B
Dinapore
Tadies
Bruce
Bengal Artillery
Joseph Phillips
Idol-lane
Fareham
Bligh
William Ashburnham
Crichester
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Postscript
Admiralty
Duncan
The
Texel
Earl St. Vincent
Cadiz
Ommadore
Drealir
Mets
Taft
Paris Gazettes
Vmpici
Mikiin
Montesquoir
la Quotidienne
Hocuz
Perset
Paris
Lisle
Marite
Willdt
Quror
Picugeru
Tan Lot
Bois de Boulogne
Buonaparte
Dover
Kew
Si. James
Ismai L .Ruffan Efrenagt
Baron Brecer
Duke of
Weymouth
Earl Cowrer
OxewarrerNa
Earl of Morningtron
Madras
Anstavruer
Indias
Su‘rron
Loke
Downing-street
Buckingham House
Lord GerenvaLte
Murinsers
Lord St. Vincent
Russia
Prince Zousorf
Count Marcow
Zouboff
Marcow
Besporopro
Count Osterman
Crebe
Sizhness
Altette
Ortorr
Pozemiin
London‘Gor'yéfonaling Society
Couryer
Lon‘don
iMref
Courrre
Iit
Coeriees
Brook
Capy
Royal East India
Incuts
Lord’s Ground
May-le-bone
Say
Greenhithe
Taursday
OF. S Focks
Long
India
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J. Wauter
Angioyse
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