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General Blakeney to Set Out for Minorca Government
A London newspaper item reports General Blakeney preparing to depart for his government of Minorca. It notes: Oaths taken by Marquis of Rockingham Townsend and Lord Maynard. Tredaway appointed supervisor at Honiton. Lord M'Cleod freed from the Tower after treason imprisonment. various naval warrants and convoys. multiple captures and ship movements around Cadiz Vigo Ostend and Brest. sightings of privateers and fleets. social notices of marriages deaths and a fireplace of crime and public disorder in Islington.
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Blakeney
Minorca
Marquis of
Rockingham
Viscount Townsend
Lord Maynard
House of Peers
Excise
Tredaway
Honiton
Devonshire
Samuel Spencer
M‘cleod
Earl of Cromartie
Chandler
Old Jewry
Dukes of Norfolk
Gordon
Hamilton
Queensborough
Earl of Traquair
Court of Admiralty
Oporto
Mediterranean
Streights
Cadiz
Marseilles
Sir Peter Warren
Spithead
Yarmouth
Defence
Portsmouth
Hunter Dogger
Hawke
Grandville
Bayonne
Holland Mails
Chester
Vigo
Ostend
Dunkirk
Calais
Brest
Rochfort
Toulon
Port Louis
Havre
Sweden
Lisbon
Rio de Janeiro
Franks
Carpenters Hall
London Wall
Lowerstreet
Islington
Craven-Buildings
Drury-Lane
Charles Walmerley
Hermitage
Peter M‘kattie
Sclater
Newgatefleet
Marybone
Peter Lafour
Bishop of
Ely
Ely-House
Holborn
Cambridgeshire