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News from the Cape and Channel Fleet Marred by Storms
Letters report that Indiamen and warships including the Dorington and Fort St George joined Admiral Boscawen at the Cape of Good Hope but were separated by a storm. Several ships returned to port, prizes were captured by the Algerines and French, and more vessels were reported off Jamaica and in Cork, with public notices, executions, and a death of Bishop Edmund Gibson noted.
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Spencer
Duke of Bedford
Hanover
Edgbaston
Cape of Good Hope
Dorington
Edgecote
Fort St. George
Lincoln
Boscawen
Cape
St. Jago
Cape de Verd
Wolfe
Phenix
Honour
Vernon
Mitchelson
Lancashire Witch
Berry
Plymouth
Lisbon
N. S. de Las Deltas
St. Anthony de Padua
Edinburgh
Philadelphia
Dublin
Oporto
Vigo
Chancellor
Alcock
New- York
North Carolina
Allen
New-England
Maryland
Ames Bennet
Theverton
Suffolk
Norwich
Woolwich
Goswell-street
Pennenden Heath
Maidstone
Rochester
John Dodd
William Potter
Thomas Foreman
Old Baily
Thomas Atkins
Francis Andrews
William Jefferys
Jefferson
Robert Cunningham
Thomas Thompson
William Palmer
Chichester
William Denny Fox
Robert Salmon
Robert. Cunningham
Bath
Edmund Gibson
London
Church of England
Butler
Bristol
St Paul’s
Gibson
King’s Chapels
Hume
St. Paul's
St. Paul’s
Johnson
Westminster School
Old Broad Street
Ewing
Bridewell
Thomas Eblis
New Palace Yard
Westminster
Hannah Willar
John Moore
Ashkewtle
Drury-Lane