Royal visitors and shipping news reach Weymouth
On Wednesday evening Duke of Gloucester and Prince William arrived at Weymouth for several days. News includes the Earl of MorwincGton’s return from Stow, Bucks, Downpas headed to Perth shooting grounds, and a round of riverine shipwrecks and leakings. Several vessels seek Plymouth shelter as equinoctial rains begin. A Bristol sloop sinks after grounding near the Wye. two crew perish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Gloucester
Prince William
Weymouth
Earl of MorwincGton
Stow, Bucks
Downpas
Arniston
Perth
Ireland
Justraman
Koncaru
Botany Bay
East India House
Walker
Joseph Banks
Duke of
Spain
Portucat
France
Senate
Rome
Prussia
Duke of York
Dunaburgh
National Assembly of France
Paris
London
Bilboa
Ramsgate
Johanna Maria
Luyt
North Bergen
Trieste
Minerva
Gadolin
Stockholm
Newry
Resolution
Altervilla
Riga
Lisbong
Neptunus
Lorentz
Rostock
Bourdeaux
Marseilles
Dover
Elizabeth
Kitty
Warren
Liverpool
Dartmouth
Milford
Ceres
Raby
Truro
Helena
John Elliott
Whitehaven
Shire
Swanage Bay
Plymouth
Mary
Wilson
Charante
Harriet
Ann
Wilkins
Ditto
Dublin
Jane
Crockover
Poole
Williams
Roskruge
Exeter
Lisbon
Elizabeth, Dunkin
Scotland
Barcelona
Peggy
Jones
Pickpockets sentenced at Westminster Quarter Sessions
Sobn Lloyd and James Phillips, sailors with genteel ties, were found guilty of picking pockets in Bridges Street and Charing Cross. Lloyd received seven years transportation. Phillips escaped but was later recaptured. Other trials included theft of a watch, an assault on a soldier, and counterfeit coinings with sentences ranging from two years in Newgate to twelve months and security for good behavior. Additional testimony covered apprentice mistreatment and court-ordered dismissal from Law’s service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sobn Lloyd
James Phillips
Mr. Witliams
Mr. Davis
Bridges Street
Williams
Loyd
Lloyd
Phillips
St. Martin’s Watchhouse
Davies
William Plater
John Matthews
John Couch
Pothilfields
Matthews
Plater
Newgate
Mary King
Margaret Turly
John Bull
Turly
Bankrupt silversmith convicted of gin theft in Compton Street
William Grant, once a respected silversmith and jeweller in Compton Street, was convicted of stealing three quarts of gin from Grace Bailies’s wine vaults. Bailies testified Grant, driven by distress, acted under hardship and he was sentenced to one month in prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Grant
Grace Bailies
Grant
Compton Street
Brother indicted for stealing wife and property
A man accused his brother of abducting his wife and taking property. The prisoner was found guilty of the offence and sentenced to seven years transportation.
Masters and Apprentices Case At Quarter Sessions
A boy named Epwards appeals to the Quarter Sessions against cabinet maker Mr Law whom he was bound to as an apprentice in July 1789. Edwards alleged bad treatment, including mouldy bread and scant meat, with a family of five or six relying on about one pound of meat per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epwards
Law
Syvefer
Edwards
Notorious Coiners Located In Lambeth House
Public Office on Bow Street reports a gang of coiners operating from a Lambeth House. Officers captured two women during a cautious house search and found bare half crowns, florins and sixpences plus coining tools. Elizabeth Pringle and Elizabeth Cafey, bound apprentices, were discharged from apprenticeship due to mistreatment. Sinnet and Clarke accused of robbing Jenkin Jones on Constitution Hill near the Queen's Palace. Sinnet captured with watch duplicate. Fenn committed for further exam in a hay theft at the White Horse Inn Fetter Lane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Bono
Esa
Lambeth Marth
Townshend
Margaret Alurphey
Elizabeth Powell
Elizabeth Pringle
Elizabeth Cafey
William Jackson
Kingsland Road
Jenkin Jones
Constitution Hill
Queen's Palace
Jones
St. James’s Park
Clarke
Sinnet
Fugion
Bull's Head
Prince’s-street
Westminster
Cable-street
Minories
Rachael Adderly
William Fenn
White Horse Inn
Fetter Lane
Letters from Dublin and regional riots described
Reports from Dublin note shoemakers numbering about fifteen hundred gathered at Phoenix Park to regulate wages, dispersed peaceably after learning of no further action. Newport fire destroyed 17 houses and 19 barns, with bark yard burning badly, sparking wider devastation. Liverpool riot over mayoral choice left one dead and two seriously wounded, with council likely to litigate the result. A Barnard’s Castle cottage burned after a rat carried a lit candle into flax, killing two children and injuring others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Phenix Park
Newport
Liverpool
Case
Blmpett
Corporation
Barnard’s Castle
Yorkshire
Aca
Monster attackers terrorize city amid police search
Betster reports a series of assaults in the city near the Rope Walk and College Green. A woman and a nurse’s servant were attacked with an instrument, whistles drawn, and the assailants fled aided by a companion and a pursuing negro man. Local officials led by Mr. Kift hold nightly meetings to catch the monsters. The article also covers a fatal fire at Magdalenhill, a bishop consecration at Worcester College, aldermanic elections, clerical appointments, a fatal voyage accident, cheese prices at Leicester fair, a thunderstorm at Wherstead, and a barn fire with two workers injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Small
College Green
Davis
Stokes Croft
King's Square
Kift
Worcester College
Oxford
Rischard Tawney
Vincent Shortland
Shortland
Richard
Christopher Yeats
John Treacher
Richard Tawney
James Mudge
Christ’s College
University of Oxford
James Jones
Churchil
Somersetshire
Wells
Shipham
J. Carrington
St. Martin, Exeter
East Coker
Foxton
C. Hopper
Jason
Hull
Leicester
Legacy of Dr Johnson Leaves Rich Annuity and Household
A long serving black servant who tended the late Dr Johnson received a substantial annuity and most of the Doctor's household furniture after his death. He chose to reside in Litchfield as his master wished. The Doctor educated him, giving him knowledge of Latin and Greek. He has a wife and three children, but only one child inherits the father's darker color. This has provoked much remark among neighbors and unsettling disturbance on several occasions.
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Bristol
George Gray
Charles Stuart
French
Lew
Stewart
Hicks’s Hall
Old Bavley
BOW Sireet
Betster
Ford
Magdalenhail
Cambridge
Ipswich
Wherstead
Widow Rivers
Happaly
Litchfield
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