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London News Briefs from July 1772 Recruiting, Intrigues, and Crimes
The London Gazette notes a young man accused of obtaining three guineas through false pretences to claim apprenticeship, aiming to stop recruiting frauds. Reports also discuss the Earl of Hillborough possibly becoming Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Sweden lifting feather import bans, naval movements toward Quebec, and various court and street crimes with burglaries, assaults, and accidents across the city. Multiple vessel movements, privateering, and Admiralty orders accompany social notes including a Common Council address, sewers payments, and new machinery at Whitehaven.
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Levant
Justice of the Peace
Earl of Hillborough
Ireland
Earl of Harcourt
Sweden
England
King’s Gardens
Anthony
Cleopatra
Stockholm
Board of Admiralty
Lord Sandwich
Greenwich Hospital
Admiralty
Plymouth
Quebec
Portmouth
Cape Francois
West Indies
Jamaica
Gardner
Iicwe
Somerville
Orange Bay
Downs
George
Williams
Cork
Halifax
Fox
Jones
Africa
America
St. Thomas’s
Fielding
Holland
Commodore Fielding
S. W
Louisbourg
Chaleur Bay
St. Laurence
Marzhault
le Bienfuisant
Marquis de Mar
Thynne
Active
Cleaver
Lancaster
Taunton
Fowler
Bristol
Juliana
Robinson
Patty
Bond
Liverpool
Nancy
Ruffel
Port Nouth
Richmond
Adamart
Robson
Lady Carleton
London
Woodley
St. Kitt’s
Catharine
Rose
Trenden
Portland
Salee
Larache
Marmora
Berg
China
Dover
East India Company
War Office
Arche Court of Common Council
Sher Newnham
Myine
City of London
Black-friars
Robert Mylne