Calcutta Civil Appointments and Army Reassignments
A list of civil promotions at Calcutta by the Governor General in Council includes Cornelius Fryer as Bahar collector, Purling as Beebhoom collector, Woodford as Persian Bengal translator, and James Morgan and others reassigned in the Revenue and Adawlot offices. Military moves detail Royal Artillery and engineers to the Cape, regimental drafts within India, and Cape-based reassignments to align with Korea or Bengal postings.
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Calcutta
Cornelius. Fryer
Bahar
Purling
Beebhoom
T .Woodford
Bengal
Presidency
Board of Revenue
James Morgan
Dewaany Adawlot
Sylhet
Pitts Middleton
Golag
Hugh Macleod
Shakespeare
Webb
Dinagepore
Thomas Baring
Pergunnahs
Becher
Thomas Hayes
Baring
James Pattle
Court of Appeals and
Benares
Hayes
India
Royal Artillery
King’s Engineers
Cape
86Th
28Th Light Dragoons
78Th
28Th Dragoons
Portdoal War Declaration and Portugal's Military Stance
Portdoal dated March 25 notes Spain's war declaration remains suspended and Portugal's army of about 33 000 men, under Duke D Alafcens, faces Spanish lines from the Guadiana to the Tagus. English reinforcements to 10 000 are promised, including French emigrants, while Portugal suffers shortages and contemplates potential Spanish attacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lion
Spain
Jervis
Tagus
Guadiana
Elvas
Montalva
Portallegre
Castello ‘de Vide
Badajoz
Alcantara
Albuquerque
Fagus
D’alafcens
Portugal
Porto Ferrajo
England
Tagus É Alcantara
Villa Vella
Dublin Letter on Irish Finance and Public Disorder
A Dublin report dated April 11 notes the eight hundred thousand pound Irish House of Commons loan slow to act, protests against ministerial dismissal petitions, warns petitions may weaken government and embolden the enemy, mentions a Sunday gambling bill with harsh penalties, a large Plymouth camp proposal, damage to the Worcester Indiaman from breaking lines, an Omagh attack, and swift execution after conviction.
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Dublin
House of Commons
Mefirs
Israttan
William Brabafon
George Ponsonby
Mr. Curran
Canterbury
Hazard
Faro
Botany Bay
Plymouth
Omagh
Ireland
Proclamation Prohibits English Merchandise in Spain
An abstract details Spain's Proclamation forbidding British goods and transports. It requires declarations within fifteen days, six months for sale of listed items, confiscation for noncompliance, auction of leftovers, price rules, and possible Cadiz exports for merchants. It also sets import penalties and duties, and confines future imports without official certificates. A Lanark meeting notes deferment of further volunteer mobilization while Scotland’s defense plan is considered.
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Court of
Spain
Great Britain
Cadiz
West Indies
England
France
Ships Taken Off Isle Madavid Reported By Frigates
The Margaretty from Isle Madavid is taken off Martinique by two French frigates and carried into Guadaloupe. The Nelly from Jamaica to Nafsan and the schooner William of Baltimore are left on Heneaga with cargoes saved.
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Margaretty
Isle “Madavid
Martinique
Guadaloupe
Nelly
Jamaica
Nafsan
William
Baltimore
Heneaga
Kangaroo Sloops Arrival and Hoffwing Prize Capture
Plymouth dispatch notes the Kangaroo sloop arriving after a cruise. It brought in the Hoffwing of Bremen from Bayonne to Altona, with brandy and other cargo.
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Bremen
Bayonne
Altona
Arrow sails with 24 guns to the Downs
In Portsmouth on April 5 the Arrow, a ship of war mounting 24 guns, sailed with a large fleet bound for the Downs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Downs
River tragedy reports two drownings near Richmond
Richmond April 13. A man’s body was seen floating between here and Isleworth and taken to the White Cross inn for ownership, believed to be a bargeman who drowned. A 15 year old French emigrant’s son from Ham vanished after an errand and was found in the river with hands tightly clasped, likely slipping from the bank and unable to escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isleworth
White Cross
Ham
Execution of Thomas Micklewright for thefts in Shrewsbury
Reports from Shrewsbury state that on Saturday last between eleven and twelve, Thomas Micklewright, convicted at our attize for stealing cows and sheep, was executed as his sentence required. Immediately before death he absolved any co-accomplices. The bulletin also recounts local curiosities, a bearable pest of rats by a recluse on Blackney Road, a Pembroke regiment powder accident in Nottingham, and a brutal murder near Dromare tied to Orange men with a public grant to the widow and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Micklewright
Mr. Gobitt
Rochester
Buffol
Blackney Road
Pembroke Regiment
Fencible Cavalry
Nottingham Barracks
Treland
Dromare
Gillhall
Dromore
Brush
Macdowell
Flack
Corn Exchange reports steady grain prices and ample supplies
The Corn Exchange notes tolerable wheat supplies this morning with prices near last week. Norfolk and Suffolk barley quality is high and cheaper. Malt is heavy saleable. oats cheaper by about 6d per quarter. Current quarter prices list wheat at 38s 4d to 45s 8d, barley 60s 3d to 66s, oats 19s 2d to 14s 6d, rye 17s 6d to 20s 0d, with averages for England and Wales and sugar prices for April quoted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corn Exchange
Brittg
Norfolk
Suffolk
Evans
Agis
England
Wales
Inward Entry of Corn at Port of London Prices
Entry inward records corn imports at the Port of London with varied prices for Kent to Suffex and other grains. Notes include red clover white clover trefoil turnip ryegrass canary seed rape seed and hay market prices at St James's and Whitechapel markets dated April 15 and April 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port OF
London
Smithfield market prices and cattle head totals
Market prices from Smithfield and Newgate Lead Market dated Monday April 17 show beef at 25 to 40s per stone, mutton 4s to 6d, veal 4s 0d, pork 4s to 5s, with cattle sold around 2,900 head, sheep 5,000, lambs 10,906. London tar prices list tolls for tallow and hides, with varying rates across St James's, Clare Market, Whitechapel, and Dittorough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithfield
Newgate and Leadenhall
Wealy
London
St James’s Mark
Town Fallowees
Clare Market
R. Do
Whitechapel Ma
Ruf
D.aoose
Graves
Distinctive Market Codes From Distant Exchange Report
A cryptic OCR style market note lists commodity codes and prices including wheat beans barley oats with apparent numerical figures and dates. The fragment references distant country markets in April and shows scattered figures like 78,421 and 33.00, suggesting a brief commodity price wire snapshot without coherent context.
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Gsia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Portdoal
of Lanark
Hamilton
Duke of Hamilton
Scotland
Portsmouth
Richmond
Shrewsbury
Pollard
Kent
St. James’s
Whitechapel Haymarket
Satur
Hay
Holland
Embiden
Copenhagen
Stralfon
Gove
Hambro
Wolgart
Ggo
Roystock
Dunkirk
Havre-de
Leadenhalls
Ross
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