Vast Dispatches from Palermo and London Amid Wars and Rumors
Letters from Messina Palermo and Catania describe guards at city gates and seditious nobles. London reports deny a false accusation against Alderman Wilkes and details in the Common Council. Irish House of Commons discusses pensions and bills on papists leases and shortened parliaments. Consuls, shipwrecks, and marriages fill the day while deaths and obituaries mark the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palermo
Catania
Alderman Wilkes
Wilkes
Judd
Merry
Dep. Jedd
Kirkman
Graham
Townsend
Farringdon
Infanticide Suspect Escapes by Night Flight
Capt Lathrop reports a newborn believed murdered and a young woman, her mother, a wealthy widow’s daughter, and a rich merchant as suspected accomplices fled by water with two enslaved people. Their boat wrecked on rocks, all perished. Also notes Mrs Eleanor Spicer of Accomack dies at 121, kept senses, never drank spirits, and worked at her pinning wheel until six months before death.
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Eric
Novy Londo
Augusto
Lathrop
Guadaloupe
Baltimore
Maryland
Accomack
Virginia
Eléanor Spicer
Arrivals at Dover and English ports with multiple vessels
The list details ships arriving at Dover Poole Plymouth and river ports including Susannah Beal from Turkey Princess Royal Geoch and many others plus arrivals in Virginia Maryland Newfoundland Cork and London with crews and origins from Jersey Jersey and Scotland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dover
Susannah
Beal
Turkey
Princess ‘Royal
Geoch
Heare
Oak
Paterson
South Carolina
Betsey
Power
Virginia
Fortune
Friendship
Martin
Fovrey
St. John
Bvadgehtt
Wittigrove
Hamburgh
Molly
Younghufsand
Liverpoole
Méptune
White
London
Petersboroky
Penny
Bilboa
Success
Heliem
Isle Mad
Universal Dictionary and Pocket Companions Advertised
An old advertisement lists Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences and Every Man's Pocket Companion with details on price, contents, and publishers. It promotes An omnibook of terms, with preface on literature origins, and outlines numerous practical entries and tables for merchants, tradesmen, and households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ainfarty
Macclesfield
J. Hinton
Paternofter-row
Warwick Jane
Earsly
House of Lords
House of Commons
England
Wales
Ith
G. Kearfly
Fetter-lane
Fleet-street
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Holland
France
Flanders
Messina
Oertoseer
Metape-Technioy
Mayer Rofeadt
Reynolds
John Roberts
Robert Ladbroke
House of Commons of Ireland
Barry Barry
Jeremiah Dyson
Mantel
Fen
Eave
William Parsons
James Brown
Mason
Gisborne
Colonel Brown
Prime Serjeant
Scot
Tigh
Marquis of
Kildire
Edward Newenham
Ponsonby
Degnis
Ogle
Malden
Ead
Warsaw
Lawrence
Falmouth
Boulogne
Smith
Dunkirk
Amsterdam
Neptune
Kidd
Hambro
Bergen
Venice
Winterden
Great Yarmouth
Newcastle
Sunderland
Christian
Yarmouth
Loft
Calais
Aurora
India
Hart-India Company
Cape
Charter-house
Edward Dowsett
James Grieve
Colville
Boston
Lincolnshire
Rotherhithe
Wes
Sexton
Mir. Wilkinson
Cortrador
St. James’s Church
Col. Forbes
Cromit
Will
Cromie
Kingdom of Ireland
Richard Sampson
Georgesfirget
Richard
Daniel Richard
Biddington
Croydon
Surry
William
Margate
Joseph Lawton
Walthamstow
County of Essex
Streatham
John Williams
Ian Bowlane
Brewerton
Samuel Brewerton
Arundelstreet
Strand
Hackney
Dartford
Kent
Leroux
Spitalfields
Gapper
Charlton Adam
Somerseshire
Marybone
Mahoon
Dawkins
Siupart
sRefe
Morte
Jamaica
Avith
Piomning
Duke of York
Chute
Elizabeth
Featenby
Quebec
Sryan Edwards
Gill
Gravisenn
Saunders
Burfall
Lezhora
Aive
Morfe
Autumn
Campbell
Strahan
Hamburen
Meriton
Dorothy
Catharine
Satisfation
Garbut
Ann
Stonehouse
Norway
Punderfor
Pacelyy Hindman
Unanimky, Smith
Petersburgh
Thomas and
Richard, Croich
New- York
Phadrus
Wiuhop Hare
Vr. Bentley
Litty
Cambridge
Johnson
Avemary-lane
Ludgate-street
Monthly Review
Ictra
Hitory
Geo. JH
Egbert
Scotland
Europe
J. Wheble
Ames
St. Anthony’s
F. Newbery
Atic Medical Warehouse
St. Paul’s Church
His Majesty’s Navy
N.B
Newbery
de Domeneceti
China
Chelea
Nerober
Tor
Che Gandid
Azarional
Andar 5
Righard Crafty
Abraham
Chambers, Esq
Bond-street
Henriettastreet
Anthony
Wright
Ons
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