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Turmoil in Great Earl Street Ends in Fatal Duel
March 26 reports two boys with a knife chasing each other in Seven Dials. A passerby Mr. Peter Sperbank was stabbed in the thigh and died within a quarter hour. The notices describe constables raiding vagrants, discipline at alehouses, and various shipboard and colonial incidents with vivid, unsettled news from London, New York, and Halifax.
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