Warship Passages and Arrivals Reported in Dense Lettered Note
Shipping items show Royal Navy vessels Roamey and Cerberus as winds blow, with arrivals at Mull Leghorn and Leith from Riga and Rotterdam. Ships Segile Stephenson Lyon Friendship James and Mary and others arrive at Embden Campiere and Portsmouth ports, listing crews and routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Os Dear
Frero
King Solomon
Denny
Frew Headrick
Harrison
Embden
Arrvals
Mull
Segile
Stephenson
Leghorn
Lyon
Friendship
Shields
Riga
James
Fragmented 18th Century Letter Excerpts and War Talk
A collection of dated excerpts includes a Lod Wewmourn letter to Mr Haris from January 1770 arguing that a king cannot accept conditional reparation and cannot be a contradicting party. Also noted are Paris-February 1 extracts on tensions among Spain England and France and a Bathland Island correspondent critiquing naval schemes and British costs while referencing Admiral By a yeing and Port Eemont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. N. Batra
Lod Wewmourn
Mr. Haris
St. Janes’s
Paris
Spain
England
Europe
France
Bathland
Port Eemont
Bya
Great Britain
Global tensions and naval activity across Europe and Asia
The article describes conspiratorial European plots involving France and Spain, strategic deployments and military plans in Brabant, and the political turmoil in Paris with the king replacing Parliament. It also notes Portuguese edicts, ceremonies at St James's, a British naval foray in the Sunda Strait, and orders affecting ship fitting and labor in the dockyards, alongside court proceedings in Cannon Pleas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marquis de Grimaldi
Duc de Ghuifeul
Europe
England
Brabant
Count de Stainville
Choneur
France
Prudirn
Louis
E Remy
Paris
Nerous
Portugal
Order of the Garter
St. James’s
Earl Gower
Gloucester
Cumberland
Marlborough
Grafton
Earl of Hertford
Halifax
Bornen
Straits of
Sunda
East India Company
Indian Ocean
Chatham
Lords Commissioners
The
Admiralty
Magnificent
Monarch
Saphire
Navy Board
Majesy
Antelope
Gayton
Portsmouth
Newfoundland
Court of Cannon Pleas
Mr. Outlow
Mr. Horie
Serjeant Glynn
Serp. Fephson
Mr. Blayne
Serj. Whitaker
Serp Leigh
Outlow
Various court actions and local news from London and areas
A digest of ecclesiastical court proceedings on divorce, weight disputes in markets, a magistrates session on counterfeiting and publican penalties, a York-buildings case for base coinings, a drover pardon case, and a public notice of weather, deaths, marriages, and notable appointments. Also reports of frost, snow depth, and obituaries including General Maccartney and local officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
hEstik
Haosingdonshire
Satuday
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
Cambridge
Norfolk
Thetford
Suffolk
Suesday
Bury St. Edmund's
Sis
Wit. S
Commons
Gates
Guildhall
Sir John Fielding
York-buildings
John Pinnick
Bow-Street
Tmington Trust
St. James’s Market
Allen
Newgate
Enfield-cace
Grange Road
Bermondsey
J. Langham
Cavendith Square
Fulham
North
John “Willianson
Holborn
Letitia Perryman
Scotland-yard
Gregory
Piccadilly
Mills Clark
Bury-freet
St. James's
New Band-Street
James Nelson
Brussels
Maccartney
Ireland
Kentish Town
Havers
de Grey
Fenchurch-street
Mary Moore
Marbyn
E.q
Deptford
Saundby
Gainsborough
Mr. Dockett
Henry Rice
Foulham and
Beetly
Priestley on Perspective and History with Vegetable Syrup
A mid 18th century sale notice and extract cover Priestley works and a medicinal ad for Velno Vegetables Syrup. It touts charts of Biography and History, a charted universal history, and a claimed cure for venereal disease with vegetable syrup, citing Dr Burrows and agents across towns. Names include Joseph Priestley, James Cole, and various shopkeepers and locations across England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tits Das
Joseph Priestley
Ll.d. Flr
J. Johnson
St. Paul's Churchyard
Ham
Patensee
Brive-lane
Vache
Perfumes
Sr. Aggyn’s Free
Pali Mail
Mal Cobier and Co
Taylor
Deptfors
Hance
Dregeit
Gravesend
Fisher
Rockfelier
Rochester
Walker
Maid. Howe
Wife
Tindridge
Wood
Bute Grinstead
Langey
Orugeift
Dorking
Mr. Rudell
Guildfora
Ms. Blackman
Reale
Unbrdge
Heil
St. Albu ’S
Mr. Newman
Bookeler
Ware
Moff Toft
Lobb
Prinvers
Chelmsford
Ene
Cafter
James Cole
Caldicot
Cama Bridge
Bir. Kiurhall
Christ-College
Cambridge
Ildcor
Burrows
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hacve
Vienna
Prince de Kaunitz Ritberg
Berlin
Poland
B.ble
Duke de Cheileul
Edinburgh
Aberdeen
Salisoury
Henry Gale
Fisherton
Johnsos
Harrington- Wick
Highworth
Mrs. Johnson
Gale
Gal
Emerson
J. Noark
Strand
Ofano
Robert Dossir
Encouragement of Arts
J. Nourse
Catharine-street
Bockfeller
Society For the Encouragement of Arts
Rushton
Northamptonshire
Careless
York
Malcohn
Murferyman
Kenington
Surry
N. B
Ley
Hertford
Thames
Disnidale
Archer
Byidle
Panterust
Jorrergsr Loonhard-firest
Leadon
Benj. Rocke
Loung-Acre
Bowen
Bordhell
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