Projected attack on enemy lines in Volland described
Postscript notes stocks at one oclock and reports 3 per cent. Confols 6 and Omnium 8. Hamburgh Mail overdue. No advices on the Wop Friegeland assault due to heavy rains hindering artillery transport. Duke of York HQ letters dated last month speak of large forces embarked to join Miteller's flotilla for a diversion on the Zayzer Sea coast. London intelligence remains sanguine but warns of losses. The army is ready to storm entrenchments, while acknowledging expected casualties in a pivotal Volland operation.
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Wop Friegeland
Duke of York
Miteller
Zayzer Sea
London
Beeing
Dlimcer
Volland
British Squadron Aims at Goree and Helvoet, Reports Say
A circulated report claims Paussia offers help for Stadtholder restoration. A Yarmouth squadron under Vice Admiral Drexson supposedly targets Goree and Over Flack on the Dutch coast and five Batavian ships at Helvoet, with one commander ready to surrender to British forces. Additional dispatches note Jamaica Fleet homeward bound, Parvx to Halifix, and Brest approaches.
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Paussia
Perfons
Berlin
Yarmouth
Drexsox
Goree
Flack
Helvcetiluus
Admiralty Office
Jamaica
Downs
William Parxze
Halifex
Ksarts
Brest
Axperson
Hay
Holland
M‘kerris
Duke of
Royal Visit and Militia Review at Weymouth Castle
His Majesty rode from Wyke Sands to Weymouth Castle where the Shropshire Regiment of Militia led by Earl Powis was reviewed by the King and Queen. The Royal Family then dined in marquees with sixty nobles, and dances followed until six in the evening.
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Wyke
Sandsy
Weymouth
Shropshire Regiment of Militia
Earl Powis
Roya
Earl Fows
Daen
St. Fiorenzo
Soldiers courted to serve in Holland amid regimental refusals
War Office letters ask Fencible regiments to volunteer for Holland. Hampshire Cavalry leader Col Everett reports majority pledge, but 31 decline, 11 remain in ranks. Meanwhile Indian front details inland and on ships include Vizier Axi forces near Bhitwal, Princess Mary dispatches, and fleet movements from Madras to Bengal.
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Duke of York
War Office
Holland
Everett
Hampshire Fencible Cavalry
Brighton
Wa. Fawcerrt
Lucknow
Axi
Bhitwal
Gorrockpour
Mary
India House
Bengal
St. Helena
Mornington
Madras
Bombay
Su Fork
Mangalore
India
Suffolk
Fox
Red Sea
Branker
Duarxe
China
Cooxy
la Sydille
la Fare
Bombay Gazette
Directory
Paris
Siberia
Liverpool
Jamaica
Rebels surrender in Mayo as Dublin reports arrests near Stephen's Green
A Dublin letter says rebels Jordan and Gana surrendered to General Treacy in Mayo, with 15,000 followers to be subdued. Five persons charged with rebellion were seized in a brewery near Stephen's Green, all from Wexford. A large cache of pikes was found in Mary's Abbey hidden in a coffin.
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County Mayo
Jordan
Gana
Connemara
Treacy
A&s
Stephen’s Green
Wexford
Nicholas Synnot
Dempsey
Killnow
Barry
Ballina
Connor
Glanavick
Essex Agricultural Society dinner postponed clue to accident
A Essex agricultural society event at Shire Hall Chelmsford was postponed as Mr Morris and other officials prepared for the annual mayoral poll. The vote showed Morris with a 25 majority over Rees, and Williams and Davies were named Sheriffs for the coming year amid other civic appointments.
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Roth
Fox
Essex Agricultural Society
Morris
Mr. Rees
Ene Waro Williams
George Davies
Gen's
Jonny George Puituips
jJoun Morcan
Natuanxiet Morcan
Tuo- Mas
Brome
Davia Joan Epwarps
Joan Brow
Fgs
Puttices
Danren WilLiams
Constantinople
Aboukir
View
Prénen
Stersburgh
Department of L’oise
Sesfion House
Clerkenwell
Gongtnor
House of Correction
Cold-bath-fields
Fane Gibbs
Justice
Old Bailey
Pallmal
Chelsea
Sher
St. James's Watch -House
Privateers and ship news from the coast and ports
Reports of Jersey privateers capturing and recapturing vessels off Guernsey and Jersey shores. Several ships are condemned or brought into port, including the Paciencia and Concordia, with cargoes seized or vessel libe rated. Also notes arrivals at Portsmouth Plymouth Deal and ashore vessels near Bootle Bay.
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Tartar
Jersey
Wit’ Gaxchraner
Wifo
Nas Feng
N. S. de la
Aurorz
Peters
Spain
Hambro
Guernsey
Railigar
London
Gibaltar
Concordia
Tripoli
Jannet
Pegey
Scotland
Liverpool
Bootle Bay
Warman
Palermo
Wa Tstable
Canterbury Hop Picking Outlook Shrinks Yields
Canterbury reports harvest delays from bad weather while hop crops look to average about 300 pounds per acre. A recent sale saw new packets bring 12s 12s and a prime sample reach 19 135, but overall trading remained dull with few buyers or sellers.
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Canterbury
Fall in sugar prices and market notes from the era
A late nineteenth century market summary notes a forty percent drop in Sucags over the last fortnight with sugars selling from 85s to about gas per Cwr. It cites foreign competition after a sugar drawback removal and reports on American vessels arriving with West India produce. The piece also describes damages from heavy rains, a Brighton barracks wall collapse and fires in Hadley and Brook Street, plus a surge of forged Bank Notes with crude watermarks signed by C Jecks and W George dating to February 16, 179%.
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Adée
West India
Brighton
Hampshire Fencib'e
Hadcarce
Syer
Hadley
Abh
B. Cazaly
C. Jecks
W. George
Spilsbury Antiferbatic Drops Advertised at Soho Square Dispensary
An 18th century sale notice touts Fras Spilsbury s Antiferbatic Drops as a cure for scurvy gout rheumatism and nervous disorders. It warns against counterfeits and notes the new edition of Spilsbury s Treatise of the Scurvy and related remedies sold at No 1 Soho Square with a Guinea advice fee, waived for the poor.
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Srriszury
Spilsbury
Soho Square
Painting by J Walter and publishers in Blackfriars office
Fragmentary notice cites Lonnon Painted by J Walter and J Walter with publication by J Bosser Salisbury-square at the Office in Blackfriars. Indicates communications for the papers to be sent to the Printergy.
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Lonnon
J. Walter
J Walter
Howes-Squant
Alackfriars
J. Bosser
Salisbury-square
Blackfriars
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