Dividends and notices in the London Gazette excerpt
The London Gazette lists dividend payments and notices including Sammpson Booker of Hanley and John Taylor of Whitehaven with locations in Newcastle under Lyme and Guildhall and various trades. It also notes certificates to be granted on or before October 17 for individuals such as ae How of Crutched Friars and William Holbrow of Dursley along with a sugar-broker and other merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sammpson Booker
Hanley
Staffordshire
Newcastle
Lyme
John Taylor
Whitehaven
Cumberland
Patrick Ferdinand Mauerce
Plymouth Dock
Devonshire
Guildhall
Thomas Lander
William Bell
Walsall
Bread Street
Livery Street
Birmingham
William Lee
Colchester
Essex
William Gardiner
Giown
John Graham
William Hornby
Forl
Chesterfeld
Ae How
London
William Holbrow
Dursley
Gloucestershire
William Broadhurst
Harp Lane
Tower-street
Fashion and politics mix in a bustling 18th century musings
The column notes Mrs Harcourt at Weymouth and fashion gossip about hair cropping and hats, then surveys France’s National Assembly and Paine’s Rights of Man. It cites Henry IV on pacific congresses, warns of deliberate polemics, and mentions Bath races, a gunpowder discovery near Newseal, and a fire at Mr Fisser’s haberdashery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
France
National Assembly
Lottets
Henry the Fourth
Eutopian
Tom Paine
Vhelypthora
Bond-street
Oxford -Street
Temple Bar
Bath
Lord Craven
Egham
Neaweasle
Mavyor
Prince Kaunitz
Imperial East Indiaman
Neale Js
Penzance
China
Dockhead
Dissenters as Friends of the Constitution and Rights
A writer urges newspapers to remain neutral, defends Dissenters against persecution, arguing they further civil and religious liberty. The piece attacks attacks on Dissenters over Charles I’s death, claims present government respects rights, and champions tolerance, reason, and constitutional reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swift
Charles I
Jamies
Willam
Charles
George the Third
England
Dean Swiret
Partiat
The Prime Minister’s Mouth and Political Fortitude
The passage compares a Prime Minister to ordinary men, noting political fortitude, the eyes and tongue as tools shaped by purpose, and a mouth that assumes shapes from cannon to churchyard. It argues a Senator’s nature differs from a country curate, reflecting opposing traits in and out of office.
Bad silver circulation and claret forecast in Bourdeaux letters
The article notes widespread bad silver in circulation from public buying of counterfeit coins and careless handling by sellers. It warns of dealers expanding operations and potential manufacturing. Bourdeaux letters predict a small but high quality wine vintage, with West Indian trade prices rising and many ships in Asiatic routes. It also reports an uptick in wild fowl on eastern coasts, seen as a sign of a hard winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bourdeaux
Ast Indies
China
Severe gale disrupts ships at sea near Hornbeck
On September 8 ELS NEABY reports a sudden wind shift from west to south and back, driving many ships from anchors. The Happy Janet and Nielfohs suffered, with crews saved. an English ship in ballast lost its crew, a Dutch salt carrier wrecked with the captain and a mare drowned near Hornbeck. A Swedish salt carrier and a Danish ballast vessel ran aground nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janet
Nielfohs
Hornbeck
Plague Rages in Grand Cairo and Across Empires
Latest government accounts report the plague raging with uncommon fury in Grand Cairo Egypt with about 1600 deaths daily. Constantinople Adrianople Smyrna and related ports suffer heavy mortality and trade disruption as ambassadors and crews seek safety amid soaring fatalities and blocked streets.
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Grand Cairo
Egypt
Armensant
Ani
Exxne
Providerce
Black Sea
Helle Oent
Constantinople
Rupert Arnslie
Bosphorus
Adrianople
Smyrna
Worcester: Lovell brothers linked to eleven year murder
In Worcester the Lovell brothers, William and Daniel, were committed to our goal by Rev Mr Nasu for a murder dating back nearly eleven years. The crime occurred near Litchmorton in this county, killing a labourer, his wife, their child, and the wife’s brother. A convict boy named Robert Jones, age about eleven, who witnessed the murder while with a gypsy gang, aided the identification of the suspects at a hop plantation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Lovell
Daniel Lovell
Nasu
Litchmorton
Robert Jones
Lutw Ten
Wilton fair sheep sale favors buyers at Salisbury
At Wilton fair on Monday in Salisbury the sale of sheep, reported as upwards of 60,600 head, concluded with prices ranging from 8s to 19s per head for lambs and wethers and ewes, with overall sale leaning to the purchasers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salisbury
Wilton Fair
Curwen Benefits as Lonspate Ends Coal Trade
Mr Curwen stands to gain most from Lord Lonspate’s plan to end the coal trade relieving unemployed and boosting his estate’s productive output. The region expected broader relief as trade slows and miners find work elsewhere. The note mentions a prior escape and a kitchen roof incident ending in a soldier’s discharge of a man on duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curwen
Lord Lonspate
Dan Hopkins
Newgate
James's
Guitody
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