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Privateer Fights and Town Response at Port Barrier
Reports from Dunkirk describe a privateer run aground near Ostend, mariners seized by townspeople, then a French officer and 30 marines attempting to reclaim the vessel for the King. Brigadier Durell refused delivery without English court orders as an express to Paris is sent. local unrest follows. Windsor items note the season’s fishing decline and noble appointments in London.
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Dunkirk
Mall Ostend
Royal Exchange
Edmund Calverley
Lyon and Lamb
King’s Head-Inn
Borough of
Southwark
Osborn
Rose and Crown
St. Duntan’s Church
Fleet-street
Adams
Spring-Garden Passage
St. James’s Park
Baly
Half-Moon-street
Strand
London