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Treacherous Atlantic Venture and Naval Prizes Report
Coast of Africa vessel returned to St Thomas with prizes for refit after lightning damage. Over 1200 slaves aboard bound for Cayenne. Admiral Rodney sends 36 gun frigate to intercept. Spanish ship from Havana seized. Campoachy logwood and hides aboard. Lord Anson and Hawke privateers arrive at Cowes Road. London court martial at Reading, constables convicted for assault. Postscript letters defend Society for Encouragement of Arts and Sciences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
St.Thomas’s
Cayenne
America
Rodney
Havannah
Richmond
Elphington
Madeira
Prince of Vaubas
Clifton
Liverpool
Cape Francois
Bourdeaux
Yarmouth
Wilson
Sunderland
Yorkshire
St. Domingo
Guernsey
Belleisle
Cowes Road
Lord Anson
Hutchinson
Hawke
Dickson
London
Gabriel
Isle of Wight
Hubbard
Hull
Newcastle
Flamborough Head
Reading
William Mackworth Praed
John Dodd
Berkshire
William Hervey
John Duke
Sir Thomas
John Bullock
Wolfley
Barnard
Tracy Brocas
John Wilks
Major Buller
Thomas Buth
Richard Hunt
Alexander Cap
Joseph Fell
Cha. Lownds
Charles Goddard
Gibbons Cape
Samuel Borlass
Grange
Hampie
William Rawlinson Earl
Newport
Admiral Holmes
St. George’s Church
Hanover Square
Lord Stopford
Earl of
Duke of Norfolk
Norwich
Herne
Attlebridge
Alderford
Megoe
Worstead
Beckwith
Eaton
William Smith
St. John’s
Timbehill
Smith
Smear
Richard Taylor
Blaxhall
Suffolk
Jackson
Croydon
Richard Gate
Hammersmith
Driver
Guildhall
Sheer Lane
St. Dunstan’s Church