Foreign Affairs and Military Reforms Reported
A London dispatch notes royal ordinances on military sales to fund pensions for retiring officers and to grant trusted subjects exemptions from purchase. Hague reports indicate land force expansion will reinforce existing regiments, strengthening national defense with focus on sailors. A London letter cites the Porte’s refusal to peace and intent to push war into Russian territories as of Sept 5 and Sept 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hague
St. James's
Murray
Constantinople
Porte
Tragic river mystery linked to Philadelphia man
A Philadelphia tallow chandler named Thomas Erveland vanished twelve years ago and was later found dead in the river. A letter to the Philadelphia governor alleges a Virginia man confessed to striking him with a stick on a wharf, killing him and disposing of the body to conceal the murder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americas
New York
Thomas Erveland
Philadelphia
Virginia
England
Birmingham Executed For Robbery And Wounding
In Shrewsbury on a Saturday for robbing and wounding Mr Savitt of Upton Magna Edward Rogers was executed. He behaved unbecomingly after sentence but wept as the hour neared. He signaled by throwing a pewter pot over the gallows when the cart was drawn away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Contry
New S
Birmingham
Edward Rogers
Shrewsbury
Mr. Savitt
Upton
Magna
Rogers
Nevitt
Arrival and departures at multiple ports listed in old timey shipping notes
The report details numerous outward-bound vessels failed and several arrivals at Bristol Barcelona Dover and other ports. Names include Nancy Thrafwer St John Henderson Gravusenn Anna Maria Prinele Mermaid Pallas Aurora and more coming from Grenades Barbadoes Maryland and Quebec with several ships from London Leghorn and Jamaica among others.
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W.N.W
Nancy
Thrafwer
St. John
Henderson
Mary
Beaty
Calhoun
Oliver
St. Kitt’s
Smith
Dominica
Wilam
Mead
Piscataqua
Hope
Clark
Virgina
Reward
Strivens
Britannia
Yeaton
William
Gelston
Trecothick
Moor
Anna
Maria
Prinele
Barbadoes
Robert
Cochran
Rotterdam
Bristol
Union Island
Racole
Barcelona
Apollo
Brett
Fom
Quebec
Downs
Maryland
Dorsey
Dover
Elizabeth
Young
Antigua
Estrice
Seaton
Mermaid
Lawry
Gerk
George
Regan
Matara
Susannah
Walley
Paftilion
Dahl
Stockholm
M‘milan
Hindman
St. Vincent’s
Douglass
Grenades
Pallas
Barnes
St. Groix
Aurora
Bishop
Casco-Bay
Ceres
Barclay
Operto
Savile
Siimpson
Jamaica
Coates
Virginia
Yarmath Road
Collins
Petersburgh
Overto Bar
Weston
Vine
Mackintosh
Cadiz
Principe St. Lorenzo
Lima
la Purissima Conception
Vera Cruz
St. Maloes
Jonge Wigan
Wygers
London
Watertorg
Beer Bullsin
Wondon
Dublin
Fae
Littledale
Leghorn
Pegey
Cocke Yang
Gunton
Fly
Good Intent
M‘millan
Liverpool
Sally, Adams
Lancaster
Martha
Browsi
Mary- Ann
Turner
Philadelphia
Royal Levee and Military Movements Reported
On Monday night Ralph Woodford the ambassador arrived from Copenhagen and attended the Levee at St James's with the king. Officers at the Levee and the king’s hand were kissed in a show of promotions in Sir John Griffin Griffin’s Grenadier Guards. The Young Buffs foot regiment was reviewed in Hyde Park on their march to Leeds where they will quarter. A Great Personage now grants a pension of 60 guineas a year from his private purse to the widow of a former government officeholder unable to live at her rank.
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Eoin
Ralph Woodford
Copenhagen
St. James’s
Sir John Griffin Griffin
Grenadier Guards
Hydepark
Regiment of Foot
Young
Buffs
Leeds
Yorkshire
Sogl
Gerteel
Wetenhall Wilkes
Hounslow
Taylor
Cyrus
Chevalier Ramsay
Hooke
Indiana
M. Marivaux
Europe
Price
Bernhard Varenius
Isaac Newton
Hodgson
F.R.S
Christ
Gordon
Henry
T.“ Henry
Manchester
J. Johnson
St. Paul's Church Yard
Ridley
St. James's Street
London
Henty
Royal College of Physicians
Glass
EPSOM
Dale Ingram
Christ’s“ Oo
Epsom Weiss
Glafe
Warren
College of Physicians
Epsom-Wells
London News Roundup of Trials and Local Events
Extracts describe naval and colonial dispatches from the Hague, a Stanley coming of age celebration at Preston, ship leaks and market reports from Quebec and Petersbourg, legal cases at Bow Street and the Old Bailey, and recent births marriages and deaths including a lord mayor’s court and a Leicester baronet’s son.
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Foreign Affairs
the Hague
Sieur Rossignol
Africa
Morocco
Republick
Lord Stanley
Earl of Derby
County of Lancaster
Preston
Canada
Bartells
Petersbourg
Bourdeaux
Cowes
Hampton
Bow-street
John Fielding
Thomas Hesketh
John W. S
Thomas
Venice
Sir Thomas
Uise
Rawstone
John B—r
H—s
B—r
Devonshire
Pacey
Holborn
Charles Town
South Carolina
Old Bailey
Sir John Palmer
Leicester
Carlton
Hampstead
Robert Carey
Yorke
John Horton
Clapton
Ann Jones
Spitalfields
Diet
Delahay-street
Westminger
Morgan
Archbishop of
York
Woodford
Essex
John Tomlinson
East India Company
Knightsbridge
John Ewer
Pall-mall
Conner
White-Hart _ Ivain Reigate
Edgworth
Horley
Surry
Worth
Sussex
Norwood Hill
John Stone
Horse Hills
Boughton
W. Braughton
Bherchingly
Harrison and Bleamire
Hatten-street
Gil
John. Smith
C.M. I. Smith
Hawes, Clarke
Ovidio
Tibullo
Propertio
Martial
William Pittman
D.D. IV
Divas Mocrat
Sylvania
V. Pierce
Pierce
Richard Pierce
Academy
Burlington Gardens
L. Hawes
W. Clarke
R. Collins
Price‘ S
Agel
Ma. Hemet
France
Italy
W. Bayley
Cockspur-street
Haymarket
J Price
Leadenhall-street
India-house
N. B
Miss Purdie
Bath
le Brun
Rue Dauphine
Paris
Ike
S. Ar's
Britain
Ireland
America
Bateman
Anderson
Radcliffe
Fraunces
Betton
Fryar
Dicey
Browne Langrish
Royal Society
Dalby
Butler
Charlotte Chapel
Sarah Clarke
George Clarke
Queen’s-row
Fimlico
J. Dalby
Welbeck-street
Francis Newbery
Junior
St. Paul’s Church-yard
Mrs. Bowen
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