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London Gazette notices and city happenings of late September
Royal appointments include Edward Baynton promoted to Agent and Consul General at Algiers, and William Burt named Captain-General of the Leeward Caribbee islands with John Clarke to govern Senegambia. Shipping news, weather, and port arrivals mix with London events at Guildhall, public notices, crime reports, marriages and deaths, plus a long letter from Philadelphia and Paris about war preparations and diplomacy.
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St. James’s
Edward Bayntun
Tripoli
Algier
Whitehall
William Mathew Burt
Leeward Caribbee Islands
America
Ralph Payne
Bath
John Clarke
Senegambia
Africa
Charles O’hara
Vienna
Tuscany
Florence
Venice
Neustadt
Hence
London
Charlotte Augusta Matilda
Kew
Windsor
Queen’s House
St. James’s Palace
Chapel Royal
Lord Howe
Lord George Germaine
New York
Philadelphia
Gardner
Col. Ormston
New-York
Lifincur
Friendship
Copenhagen
Petersbourg
Resolution
Plymouth
Paris
Versailles
Bourdeaux
Britanny
Brest
Carhais
St. Maloes
Dinant, &c
Congress
Robinson
Adams
Continental Congress
Europe
Count de St. Germain
Enviers
Thomas
T.kitax
Guildhall
Westminster
General Court of the East India Company
Drury Lane
Jerry Sneak
Garratt
Taylor
Kesington Gardens
Drury-]sne
Templar
Justinian
Shakespeare
Percy
Brentford
Kiday
Barton-Mills Road
Fred
Lambeth
St. George’s Fields