Plainspoken Royal notices and bankrupts from Whitehall
Dec 6 report from the Lennon Gazette lists a Catholic King convention ratification in Whitehall, the appointment of Hammond and Drake to Madrid and Copenhagen posts, a Privy Council audience for the Landgrave of Furstenberg, and various military promotions. It also records Corn and Grain returns for Nov 22–27, 1790, and multiple bankruptcy declarations and dividends to be paid in London courts.
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Alleyne Fitz-Herbert
Spain
Duke of Leeds
Fitc-Herbert
the Efarial
S' Minster
Whitehall
George Hammond
Madrid
Francis Drake
Copenhagen
St. James’s
Landgrave of
Prince of Wales
George Augustus Frederick Lake
Province of
Canterbury
Life Guards
John Buller
15Th Regiment of
Light) Dragoons
Purchase
Henry Blundel Atherton
Sun Regiment of
Charles Maddison
32D Regiment of Foot
Cornet
Walter Monteath
Regiment of Foot Guards
Richard Lee
Fenueau
Regiment of Foot
Henry
Pocklington
Wiliam Guard
Goth
Royal American Regiment of Foot
Andrew Cochrane
Dragoons
Kerr
Joseph Yorke
Robert Douglas
Office of Ordnance
James Moncrief
Royal Engineers
Archibald Robertson
Robert Pringle
Frick
John Baker
Chatham
Kent
Guildhall
London
Coore
William Burges
Southwark
Surrey
Hoffer
Dawes
Angel-court
Throgmorton-street
Thomas Pittard
Sherbrae
Dorfeth
Carrier
Merl. B
James Saunders
Fighworth
Wilvh
Richard ‘Herbert
Lancaster
Lancashire
Thomas Kinlyside
Fathion-street
Spitalfields
Jane
John Cimpin
Ae Heifrdshore
James
Noehaniel Clffold the Elder
Reading
Mer
Guldhall
Mail robbery halts portbay run near Summerhill
Dublin dispatch reports that early yesterday morning a portbay from Trim to Dublin was stopped near Summerhill in Meath and robbed of mails from Granard Edgworthstown Castle Delvin Castle Pollard and Trim.
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L.a-N-D
Dublin
Trim
Summerhill
County of Meath
Granard
Edgworthstown
Castle- Delvin
Castle-Pollard
Oxford News Baroque Academic and Shipwreck Report
Country News from Oxford recounts John Leigh of Beaten-Nose College receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree and several others advancing to arts and law. It notes the death of Rev Samuel Fonter, and outlines a fatal accident of Mr William Davenport, a Common Council member, after a kitchen fall. A gale at sea causes ships to struggle in Catwater with vessels endangered yet some survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
John Leigh
Beaten -Nose College
Samuel Fonter
A. Bcholar
Wadham College
F.orster
William Davenport
Taylor
S.S. E
Fearas
S. W
Teignmouth
Brooks
Catwater
Joan
Mary
Honduras
Ireland
Ireland, Was Obliged To String Up, In Two Brothers Cove
Fea
Ships News Dec 4 Report of Arrivals and Departures
Arrived and sailed for the River were the Maria Wilkinson and Brothers from Oporto. King’s ships Dictator, Southapton, and Mzerwyk from Batavia. Other vessels listed include Lord Hawkesbury, Draper Walker from Dublin, Augustus Caesar for Jamaica, Castle Doug for Charles Town, and the Calais Packet from Boulogne, with various other ships remaining in the Downs. Wind directions noted as southwest and west.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
River
Maria
Wilkinson
Dublin
Downs
Augustus Caesar
Fowler
Reward
Leech
Lord Sheffield
Sinclair
Fortitude
Warden
Diana
Steward
Jane
Ruffel
Jamaica
Castle Dougas
Cooper
Charles
Town
Calais
Gillingham
Boulogne
Plympton
Price
Cork
Rip Burgen
Malama
Amterdam
London House of Commons Dec 4 Royal business and adjournment
In London the House of Commons on Saturday Dec 4 moved to a Committee of the Whole to grant supplies. Petitions were discharged and detained until remoter days. A Treasury account for provisions for troops in the West Indies was laid on the table, along with Exchequer bill revenue. The Royal Family attended St. George's Chapel Windsor and public business this week includes King’s Levee days. the Queen will have no ...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert
Steele
Treasury
Fair
West Indies
Robert Jennings, Esq
St. George’s Chapel
Windsord Castle
St. James's
News in Brief From London and Abroad
Various updates recounted including royal appointments and travels of Prince William of Gloucester to Göttingen for two years, Duke of Bedford injuring knee in a hunt but likely not serious, and postal dispatches with New York and Halifax mails. Lottery results listed some prize numbers, climate notes on temperature swings, social gambling in card rooms, and river Seine depth aiding ships at Rouen. Also reported are a mugging on Wimbledon Common, a barn-found dehydrated girl case near Hereford, a marriage in Wet-Smithfield, deaths in Conington and London, and a new Bible edition by Scatcherd and Whitaker with notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Clarence
Great
Duke of Bedford
Wooburn
New-York
Halifax
Portland Packet
Rogers
Ireland
Temple Bar
Faure
London
Oswestry
Shropshire
Dyer-street
St. Giles’s
Burnell
Mr. Platt
Putney
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The
Lennon Gazette
Det
Richard Brown the Elder
Fluthing's Alley
Mid-diefex
Carpenter
Atten
Joseph Bugby
Alresford
Hampshire
John Richardson
Silvester Hill
the Strand
St. Martin In the Fields
Middlesex
Lyndop
Country- News
House Or Commons
Hereford
Ross
Ledbury
Tapia Ya Na. Mingay
Wet-Smithfeld
Miss Cotterill
Coldbath-square
Morday
Conington
John George Montagu
Viscount Hinchinbroke
Borough of
Huntingdon
Needham
John Turner
Newington
John, Cooper
Yottenham High-cross
Muileend
Peter
Tunbridge ‘Wellé
Avis
Plumptre
Francis Pludiptre
William Barhard
Great Rudzl-street
Bloomsbury
Prades
Scatcherd
Whitaker
R. Smith
Clay-Hile
Becke Ham
Thomas
Fl “Cooke
Chelsworthy
Suffolk
Wand
Lyon
Gray’s Inn
Squire
Ipswich
London Annuity Society
Old Fish-street
St. Pauls
Thomas Deeble
M. G
Old Fewry
Society For Offering
Lombarda
Herbert Burt
Granville Sharp
Mackworth
Cornwall General Infirmary
Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall
Royal
the Prince Wales
Oy Ey
Mei. Glynn and Co
Birthin-lane
Forster and Co
Duntze, Bart. and Co
Exeter
Oravo
France
Ts Cadell
Strand
Bruce
Brucas
Gondar
Shim
Nile
Sennaars
Abyssinia
James Bruce
Samuel Shaw
H. D. Symonds
N. B
Shaw
George, Camppbell
Marichal College
Aberdeen
Ata
William Leedrmang
Fringinal
College of
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