Prorogued Parliament and Lord Lieutenants Visit Dublin
Dublin July 27 The Parliament prorogued to August 3 and then to October 12 for ecclesiastical business. Lord Lieutenant returned from Armagh and visited Col Burton Slane and Drogheda. The corporation of Drogheda presented him with freedom in a gold box. Yesterday thousands paraded with swords sticks and a hackney carriage with a mufflin clad woman as a man cut mufflin to pieces threatening vendors of imported goods.
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Dublin
Eiss
Armagh
Col. Burton
Slane
Corporation of
Drogheda
Euryalus Walks Over In His Majesty's Plate
Salifury reports a race where Penton's chiefnut horse Euryalus walked the course for 100 guineas. Southampton notes Judge Athurst arriving to preside at Worcester trials including Richard Williams acquitted of murder, Edward Giddin found guilty of rape and sentenced to death, Henry Barnard acquitted as accessory.
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Salifury
Arrivals and arrivals at ports many ships and crews
A fragmented list details arrivals and sailings across Jamaica New London Bristol Dartmouth Pool Falmouth Plymouth Portsmouth and Dover. Ships include Lark Forter Hertfeld Irvin Rosine Guavasenn Mermaid Bar clay Hunter Kennedy Zachary Bailey and many more from Africa Barbados Jamaica Newfoundland and Ireland. Several vessels like the London Packet and Two Sisters are noted with origins including Bristol and Newfoundland.
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Dear
Avcastus
Anson
Lenox
China
Duke of Grafton
Bull
Bengal
Lark
Forter
Spain
Hertfeld
Irvin
Jamaica
Guavasenn
Robertson
Neale
Cockton
Memels
Brenton
Elizabeth
aZtbra
Gravssean
Mermaid
Ball
South-Carolina
Christian
Haw
Malaga
Dominica
Nelson
Hayes
London
Rachel
Henry
Lordon
King of Denmark pays debts to Danes via Hamburg Commissary
London reports the Danish king publicly informs foreign gazettes that his Hamburg commissary will pay debts owed to Danish subjects by Cliffords and Co. at Amsterdam at 7000 rix dollars monthly until cleared. Berlin notes Prussian king awarded a gold medal to a woman for bearing nine children. Ship pursers arrive at the India House with news of East Indiamen arriving safely in the Downs and Portsmouth.
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London
Denmark
Prussia
Union East-Indiaman
Lennox
Fort St. George
China
Duke of Grafton
Bull
Parliament
Mesirs
Adam
Rotert-street
Adelphi
Garrawey
London Daily News
Janacy
Guildhall
City of London
Royal Exchange
Merlrs
John
Robert
James
William Adam
John Adam
Johan Henderson
Great Queen Street
Robert Adam
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields
James Adam
Samuel Smith
St. Mary Axe
Messrs
Mathew Duane
Lincoln’s Inn
Carrany
Robert Street
Shipping News and Local Disasters Roundup in London
Reports from the Cape to London describe East Indiamen sailing routes and captains, prosecutions for perjury, and racing results. The piece records fires, robberies, executions, burials, births, marriages, and deaths, including a Coventry murder case and a notable bankruptcy note. It notes a highwayman’s robbery, a girl’s fatal leap, and a candle causing a house fire.
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Prince-of-Wales
Court
Cepart and
Bay
Huntington
Pigou
Duke of Kingston
Snow
Houghton
Smith
London
Cape
Elphinstone
Madras
Cornwall
Barbadoes
Leeward Islands
Bedford
Lord Offory
Chalkstone
Winchester Assizes
William Pinton
Thomas Strotten
Edward Nobes
Hambledon
John Feltham
John Hellary
William Stone
Will. Bowman
Lombard-street
Coventry
Thomas Farn
John How
Charles Pinchbeck
Binleybridge
Warwick
Thomas Clifton
William Brown
John Hodson
Todell
Sarah Challingsworth
William Osborne
Joseph Whitehouse
Charles Crowder
Mr. Chawner
Newstreet
Birmingham
Croydon
Streatham
Deptford
Newington-Butts
Haac Walker
Siler-street
Golden-square
John Frankland
Durham
George Bowyer
Carrington-street
Eliz. Biggs
Lower Grosvenor-street
George Fawell
Cheapside
Plucknett
Austin-Friars
Bowles
Trinity College
Oxford
Kitty Bampton
Leachlade
Gloucestershire
Walthamstow
John Goodson
Wellclose Square
Gosport
Mr. Bedford
New College
Laffadill
Sligo
Ireland
Sir Booth Gore, Bart
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Flanders
Paris
Sir la Lande
Royal Academy of Sciences
Country News
St. Mary’s Church
Henry Whitfield
Brightlinefea
Essex
Clarendon Press
D. Prince
J. Pridden
Fleet-itrest
T. Payne
Castle-street
Mel
Joha
la& Sesson
St. Mary-le Cannes
Carron Company
Berg Wens
Consi
Sol
Sone
Burfaant
Henry Betts
Tate
Yoxford
Suffolk
Téck’s Court
St. Andrew
Holbon
Middlesex
Thomas Bernett
Bernett
John Eames
Symond’s. Inn
Chancery-lane
Co.min
Thomas Antrobus
William Langford
Margaret Crows
Edward Worth
Richard Holden
Martha Cooke
Elizabeth Withurst
Phebe Thorold
Zachary Allen
Stephen Chafe
Elizabeth Pye
Arthur May
Thomas Cafton
Holborn
Henry Hoare
Goldsmith
Elizabeth Stannard
Mary Tothill
John Ewer
Nathaniel Ewer
Surrey
Alderstead
Merftham
Reigate
Old Warren
Walton- Heath
Bantted
Barnes
Robinson
Cyrus -House
Haac Whitington
Lendon
Newmarket-road
Hockerill
Boughey
George
Aylesbury
County of Bucks
Oving
Thomas Flowers
Lanebrough
Buckingham
Winslow
Mr. Flowers
Allen and Atkinson
Furnival’s Ien
King’e Arms Inn
Lancaster
Thomas Benison
Horgby
Melling
Lacie
Hornby
Graffingham
Whitray
Sineek
Bottenhead
Botten
Barking
Wray
Thornton
County of
York
Fenwick
Meff. Coulthard and Wildman
White-Lion
Briffol
Everal Freehold
Felton
Gloucester
Bedminster
Somerset
William How
Brinel
Lot Il
Cudlins
Walter Gullfer
Witham
Town and Country
Jaghire
Fanny
Bristol
C. Meek Age
A. Hamilton
St. Johne-Gate
G. Robinson
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