Naval News and Local Incidents From a British Packet Letter
A February 17 letter from Kinsale reports Hulls Culloden dismayed Captain Geary. Hawke’s squadron captures the 74-gun Magnanimous near Cadiz. Fly and St Barbara reach ports from Carraccas and Havannah. Two French ships escape Wauke but are taken to Virginia. Unity sinks with crew saved by Capt. Sinclair. Vessels from Petersburgh and Bristol bring news. Admiralty appeals confirmed as prize. Voltaire travels amid court puzzlement. elections in Westbury favor Mitchell and Townshend over Bance and Methuen. Parliament adjourns. Mark Gretton gains dispensation for livings at Good-Quarter and Roothing. Press gang raids Quarters of Upper Morefields. riots deterred at Covent Garden and Bloomsbury. Smugglers foiled in Sussex. tea seized at Brighthelmstone. Barton dies suffocated at Marlow. a child burns itself fatally in Shoe-lane. Bambridge murdered after returning from Deptford. Mrs. Goulder dies after sudden illness in Smithfield. Gravesend wherry overturns with sixteen souls.
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Kinsale
Culloden
Geary
Admiral Hawke
d’Albert
Brest
Cadiz
Falmouth
St. Barbara
Carraccas
Port Passage
St. Anne
St. Joachim
St. Teresa
Havannah
Wawke
Virginia
Gibraltar
Unity
Carolina
London
Sinclair
Bristol
Slade
Mediterranean
Hurst
Duke of Cumberland
Humble
John
Southern
Dublin
Thomas
Liverpool
Petersburgh
St. Philip
Bourdeaux
Luke Mercer
Berborough
Revenue
Ireland
Mercer
Admiralty Court
Lords Commissioners of Appeals
Court of Admiralty
Marseilles
Levant
Byng
Nice
Voltaire
Lorrain
Committee of Privileges and Elections
Matthew Mitchell
Chauncey Townshend
Elgis
John Bance
Essex
Roothing
Morefields
Bloomsbury Square
New-Prison
Midhurst
Sussex
Shoreham
Brighthelmstone
Barton
Marlow
Kent
Wexham
Shoe-lane
Bambridge
Croydon
Deptford
Beckingham
Goulder
Little Britain
Smithfield
Gravesend
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Old Bailey
Williams Stevens
Francis Hill
Thomas Lane
Platt
Townsend, Elys
Wiltshire
Kensington
Miss Savage
Red- Lion-street
Holborn
Edmund Savage
Earl of Sandwich
Lord Sandwich
Admiralty
Denzil Onslow
Henry Stevenson
Retford
Nottinghamshire
Gardner
Fenchurch-street
Wiliam Kuipe
Cowley-street
Wetminster
William Thornton
City of York
Piccadilly
Gabriel Alcroft
Hyde Park
Gravel Lane
Southwark
Mayo
S. Robert Fletcher
Lynn Regis
Norfolk
Chapman
David Sharp
Mercer, Linnen-Draper and Chapman
Navy Office
His Majesty’s Navy
Vis
Dantzick Plank Ar Prufiia
Norway
Riga
Fountain-Tavvern
Portsmouth
John Rukman
James Bucknall
Methuen
Streights
Corsica
Northampton
Smith Fleetweagh
N.B
Joseph Churchill
Charles Lumisden
Charles Howard
Regiment of Foot
Ipswich
John Matthews
Thetford
Taylor
Great, Britain
William Adair
Elgim Pall Mall
Thomas Maton
Wisbech St. Peter’s
Ely
Iplwich
Joseph Keys
Stephen Pitet
Pittet
John Sparowe
Ailworthy
Gloucester
Stow
Cheltenham
Nauntonfield
Ailworth
Naunton
Samuel Forster
Grantham
County of
Lincoln
Aliud Boy
Aulay Macaulay
the Square
Manchester
Bookfellers
Bookfilers
Great Britain and Ireland
Richard Macaulay
King’s Arms
Catenton-street
Levnus
Paris
P. Knapton
Ludgate-street
Edward Uawee
Most
Order of the Bath
His Majesty
Mont. de Vauban
France
E. Ballard
C. Hitch
Pater-nofter-row
J. Wood
Royal Exchange
Munster
R. Manby
H. S. Cox
Ludgate Hill
Edinburgh
Meffieurs Hamilton and Balfour
W. Innys
T. Longman
T. Shewell
Birt
T. Cox
Austen
J. Hodges
S. Cox
J. Osborn
A. Millar
J. Davidson
B. Dodd
J. and
J. Rivington
J. Ward
M. Cooper
Price
Polly Haycotk
Gold Watch
T. Taylor
Friday Street
Cheapside
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