Ship News from Faemouth and Dover with dispatches
Ships arrive at Cowes and Portsmouth with messages from Earl St Vincent. The Viper Utter and Endymion frigate discharge quarantine statuses while Danish vessel Verandrang and Salo reach the Motherbank. Dover reports troops moving to Deal and a swift cruise of Serapis Prevoyante and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faemouth
Strv
Katy
Jams Pyires
New-York
Cowes
Saxptas
Coentan
Earl St.Vincent
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Swan
Halifax
Verandrang
Moller
Matter
Barcelona
Salo
Motherbank
Endymion
Dover
Calais
Deal
Windsor
Sheerness
Prevoyante
Savage
Riot Suppressed in Birmingham After Riotous Disturbances
Reports from Birmingham dated September 11 note magistrates and volunteers restored tranquillity after rioting, with two lives lost and several wounded. Disorderly youths sparked disturbances. Lord Alveston and his yeomanry aided magistrates. An address urged landholders to send grain to market to lower prices amid plentiful corn and flour forthcoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Alvestond
Public Offence at Bow Street Two Prisoners Brought Before Magistrate
Thomas Johnson and John Cottle, noted as well known characters, were brought before the Sitting Magistrate by patrolmen C and I Jones after a late night apprehension near Charing Croft. A struggle occurred as they attempted to flee, Johnson dropping a box of matches with a phosphorus kettle nearby. They were ordered to be examined further.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Johnson
John Cottle
I. Jones
Charing Croft
Johnson
Cottle
Passage of The Phenis Packet to Barbadoes and Tortola
The Phenis Packet set sail from Falmouth May 3 arrived Barbadoes July 5. It carried letters to examiners at Martinique Antigua St Kitts Tortola and Barbadoes. It met British ships including the Sanspareil Invincible Lapwing Surinam and Severn while American ships and frigates gathered at St Kitts. The convoy faced privateers. It reached Falmouth August 9 after joining the West India fleet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phenis
Tortola
Phenia
Falmouth
Barbadoes
George
England
Martinique
Sanspareil
Invincible
Lapwing
Surinam
Bury
St. Pierre's
Contellation
Dominica
Hydra
Antigua
St. Kitt’s
Cayenne
St.Kitt’s
Severn
Zephyr
Southampton
Lord H. Seymour
France
Bermuda
Charlestowsy
Cape Clear
Admiralty Letters on Bravery at Vigo Bay and Privateer Action
ALondon Gazette style compilation from the Admiralty including Lord St Vincent's report on Courageux at Vigo Bay, Burke and Hood's cited actions with Renown and Impétueux, capture of the French privateer La Güipe, and letters from Vice Admiral Hugh Seymour. It lists casualties, ships Amethyst Brilliants and others, Westerns capture of General Maffena, and bankruptcy/dividend notices with sugar and rice prices. The document preserves formal naval phrasing and names such as St Vincent Warren Hood Burke and Western.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vigo Bay
Courageux
London
Hodu
Liehitenaft Burke
Admiralty
Earl of
Rendenella
Impetueux
Burke
la Guipe
Bourdeaux
Citoyenne Dupan
C. Kc
Henry Burke
Renown
John Henry Holmes
James Wourte
de Courateux
Mising
Samuel Hood
Brilliant
Cynthia
Lord Hugh Seymour
Leeward Islands
Evan Nepean
Fort Royal Bay
Martinique
Sin
Western
Taner
General Maffena
Brigh ton concert draw repeats with noted performers
Mrs Sippons has sung twice to crowded houses at Brigh ton to. Friday engagement at Sarden for five years with Norwich born Brunton and Fredevigh characters. Chard from same theatre also engaged for two PCATS.
France and the Levant Dey Alliance Over War Effects
The article notes relations of France with the Dey of Algiers and the Levant amid ongoing war with England. It argues the war sustains the significance of maritime trade, linking Levant ports to French southern grain needs, Genoa prosperity, and Malta security, with hopes of France-US peace reopening Mediterranean coasts to commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Europe
Levant
France
Liguria
Genoa
Baniff
Algiers
Egypt
Malta
United States of America
Mediterranean
Arrival and proceedings at Galway and Portumna hospitality
Lord Cornwallis arrived in Galway with his suite on the 3d inflant and received an address from the Mayor and Corporation at the Tholsel. An illumination followed before his Excellency set out for Lord Waxiscourt and Portumna. The Countess Dowager of Mans proceeds to appoint Deputy Ranger of Richmond Park. A Danish ship from Tranquebar reached the roads with news of disturbances tied to Dutch financial decay. The Assembly tightened credit controls, reducing brokers and declaring contracts payable in dollars illegal. A death in the Manners family was noted, and a London-bound official, ill and traveling alone, died at a Essex inn, triggering War Office alert. Remarks on French politics and Bonaparte’s court, and a sensational account of Antoinette Mora bearing eleven children, filled the foreign-dated dispatches, alongside riot updates and calls for grain relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Cornwallis
Galway
Mr. Trench
Woodlawn
Tholfel
Lord Waxiscourt
Earl of Cran Ricarde
Portumna
Mans Frexp
Richmond Park
J.smelt
Madras
General Manners
South- End
London
Billericay
Essex
War Office
Lombardy
Serbelloni
Madame Bonaparte
Cisalpine
Willis
Wéstminster Hall
Willllis
Eclaireurs
Amiens
Bonaparte
du Commerce
Bourdeaux
Antoinette
Mora
Méntor
Maritime -Alps
Birmi
Ingham
Calla
Farotreré
Harvest news and price protests across towns
Reports from Derbyshire Derby Leicestershire Hereford and other towns note charitable efforts to aid the indigent with flour at reduced prices and grain relief funds. Millers bakers and farmers in Leicester and surrounding areas push price reductions and suspend tolls to ease costs while harvest prospects in Scotland improve with good barley and declining grain prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derby
Fort Ting
Doncaster
Hereford
Pfvick
Bridgnorth
Uppingham
Leicoer
J Sample
Bath
Leitefershire
Nottingham
Andover
Leicester
Boal
Tn Almoft
Leivettershite
Robert’ Burdett
Astor
Scotland
Ayrhhire
Dumfrieshire
Tweedale
Clydesdale
Nithiale
Annandale
Only one parade day monthly for Yeomanry in Ireland
A Dublin report notes that the Yeomanry must hold just one parade day each month, signaling potential budgetary easing and public safety considerations under Lord Cornwallis. It also mentions the Princess of Wales's Fencible Cavalry’s planned disbandment next spring and their horses being reassigned to regular regiments. In Mullingar a private soldier, Thomas Graham, was executed for theft, claiming dire poverty drove the crime, as he was stationed far from markets with scarce provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Cornwallis
Princess of Wales's
Fencible Cavalry
George’s Quay
White’s Lane
Mullingar
Thomas Graham
Queen’s County Regiment
Potatoes and a Fatal Well Incident Reported in Bath
A Bath Agricultural Society meeting notes experiments on drying potatoes to preserve quality for years and reports potato flour shipped to Jamaica. Prosecution of a butcher and a green-grocer for forestalling is noted. A boy fell into a Stilton area well. a rescuer named Wilton freed him but he refused further help and died. Details are fragmentary but indicate a royal or magistrate order and local concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Agricultural Society
Jamaica
É&C
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Royal George
Uthant
Sir John Warren
Lam
ST. Vincent
Liverpool
Demmarara
Guadaloupe
Sam
J. Lucas
Fulham
M. Clark
Mundy’s Coffee-house
Maiden-hire
Coventgarden
Victualler
G. Withers
Lambeth
Surry
C. Page
Croydon
Taylor
D. Timmings
Weaver
J. Groom
Chilwell-street
J. Birks
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Staffordshire
Palin
Burslem
Dublin
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