Bravery of Skeltons Regiment and Isle of Man wreck cargo
General Skelton's Regiment of Foot son of Captain Leader and a gentleman of good character praised for bravery in Vernon’s West Indies campaigns. Workington master Curwan arrived with Caledon cargo wreck from the Isle of Man, mainly wines. Lord Viscount Doneragle Sir Robert Echlin and family arrived from England. Mrs Lynch, wife of merchant Francis Lynch, died in Jervis Street yesterday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Skelton
Regiment of Foot
Leader
Otway
Vernon
West Indies
Workington
Curwan
Isle of Man
Caledon
England
Viscount Doneragle
Robert Echlin
Dublin
Lynch
Francis Lynch
Jervis Street
Reverend Hammond Marries Miss Dolly Turner in Norfolk
The Rev. Mr. Hammond, related to the Earl of Orford, wed Miss Dolly Turner, described as an amiable young lady with a handsome fortune. A fire in South-Creak, Noralk destroyed four houses, leaving two lads dead and six injured. In Maultby near Yarmouth, lightning struck Barns and stables at Maultby Hall, causing complete ruin.
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S. Norwich
Hammond
Earl of Orford
Dolly Turner
South-Creak
Noralk
Maultby
Flegg
Yarmouth
Roger Womack
Maultby-Hall
Letter from a Shis arrives off Dover during convoy chase
An aged letter from the Streights reports encountering a Lisbon convoy in lat 41. A Forty Gun Ship and a Twenty Gun Ship pursued by a French privateer for about an hour. Gale then separated the ships. later the Privateer followed until night. Arrivals listed: Friend ship Lambert from Lisbon, Success Millerton from Jamaica, Prosperity McCaull from Antigua, Pegasus Davis from Jamaica, Elizabeth Morris from London at Cork, N.S. la Piedada at Lisbon.
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Dover
Lisbon
Fyne
N. E
Friendship
Lambert
Millerton
Jamaica
M‘caull
Antigua
Lancaster
Pegasus
Davis
Elizabeth
Morris
London
Cork
N.S. la Piedada
Ditto
London Letters: Trade Projects, Ports, and Royal Travel
London reports from Copenhagen to Lisbon cover plans to boost manufactures and commerce and to enlarge an old port near the city. Swedens East India Company aims to fit out more ships this year, while Portugal’s king grows ill. News of naval actions, privateers, and ship captures, plus court life, marriages, and obituaries fill the page.
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London
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Swedish East-India Company
Lupon
Portugal
Legg
Berlin
Breda
U.S
la Roque
Loevesteyn
Atterdam
France
John-Philip de Bourbon
d’Orleans
Kent
Duke d’Orleans
Order of Malta
Spain
Paris
Chevalier de Modena
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Prince and Princess of Wales
Westminster Hall
Blackheath
Drasa
Kew
Leicester House
Tunbridge-Wells
Lewis Crusius
Charter-House School
Hotchkis
Edward Mainwaring
Abercorn
Weversham
Chester
Coddington
Covent-Garden
General Post Office
Arm’d
His Majesty’s Navy
Lords of the Admiralty
Prince Henry
Portsmouth
Gibraltar
Elfineur
Johnson
St. Agnetta
Plymouth
Jean Baptiste
Granville
Swallow
Titcombe
Maryland
Fanny
Reid
South Carolina
Pool
Scilly
Bilboa
Willoughby
Talbot
Leverpeol
George
Anthony Palmer
Aylebury
Richard Lowndes
Robert Brooks
Weedon
County of Bucks
Palmer
William Stanhope
General Ingoldsby
Dinton
Reading
Middlesex
Westminster
Newgate
Farnwell
Newington
Hoxton
Walhway
Spittlefields
Court of Common Pleas
Willes
Kensington
St. Michael Baffishaw
Francis Blackbeard
Aldersgate Street
Louisa Ogier
Viscount
Perton
Biron
Bangor
Viscount Morpeth
Newington-Green
William Avis
Matthew Raper
Bank of England
Hay
Cheapside
Fire
Lincoln’s Inn
Mr. Shaw
Great Queen Street
Leicester Fields
Matthew Skinner
Knt
John Talbot
Montgomeryshire
Denbighshire
Wrexham
Flintishire
Flint
Cheshire
Souhampton
William Tlson
Newbury
Berkshire
George’s
St. James’s
N. B
Edward Rox
Grantham
Lincolnshire
Northampton
Edward Roe
High Court of Admiralty
Lhoyd’s
Lombardtreet
Ferry
Bristol
Edward Mathews
le Compte de
Earl’s
Fune
Pulteney
Lloyd’s
Lombard-Street
Ageneviines
Charles Willson
Thomas Grande
Falmouth
Jonathan Topham
M. Cooper
Glebe
Paier-rottw
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