English Colours Hoisted After Fort Take In Port War News
Extract from Portsmouth Aug 8 reports English sailors seizing a Spanish fort, raising English colours, advancing to intercept rich ships, and returning to port with four wounded. Other items note fleet movements to Newfoundland, Hermione treasure transport, and broader European naval actions and prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.gutlass
Spain
Walt
Duke of York
Portsmouth
Latt Friddy
Guernsey
Young
St. Ann
Harman
St. Helen’s
West Indies
Downs
Bedford
Supérb
Shrewsbury
Minerva
Spithead
Newfoundland
London
Kingston
St. Imes’s
Gibraltar
Morocco
Lima
Saunders
Carthagena
Cadiz
Galicia
Art Car- Blend Adl
Levant
Havansah
Cardiagena
PECTORAL BALSAM AND JESUITS DROPS PROMOTED IN LONDON AND DUBLIN
Promoted patent remedies for coughs, lung issues, and female ailments appear in London and Dublin stalls. The listing touts Pectoral Balsam of Honey as a universal cure with a tea spoonful equal to two ounces of honey, offered with directions and sold by Baldwin, Jackson, and Wilson among others. Also advertised are Walkers Patent Genuine Drops claimed to cure sexual weakness and other disorders, with multiple distributors and a public notice urging trust in the remedy and its royal endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hrnu
Baldwin
Bookfeller
Pater-nofter-Row
Jackson
St. James’s Street
London
Wilson
Dublin
Parehnoster--Row
St James’s-Street
Robert Walker
Lang
Doftor
Mackindex
Peruke
King-street
St. James’s Square
Horton
Portsmouth
Brown
Bodkfelter
Bristol
Jordan
Perukeemaker
Plymouth-Dock
Bree and Spencer
Scare
Exeter
Kingdom
Iwes and Co
Walken
Rees
Royal Council
Pitt
Great Britain
Europe
Impartial defense of Newfoundland missives in London Post
A letter to the London Evening Post from Impartial argues against assigning blame for Newfoundland losses to Lord Bute or Pitt. The writer denies a Prime Ministerial role, blames the collective Cabinet for naval protection failures, and calls wartime misfortunes unlucky rather than personal neglect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buelle
Bute
Burt
Newfoundland
Pitt
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Porto-Ricci
Louisana
North America
Halifax
Nova Scotia
William Lewis
Defenda
M. Leuftach
St. Thomas’s
Lewis
Tortola
Taylor
Sarah
Leeward Islands
Gregory
Poole
Chetter
Carnarvon
Hitchinson
Norfolk
Bonham
Princess Augusta
Baddison
East-Indies
Falmouth
Tocol
Prince St. Severino
Stanhope Street
Mayfair
St. Matthew's Church
Bethnal-green
William Adney
John Laurie
Fe’nnight
Hamftels
Durham
Elizabeth Tempest
John Tempest
Winyard
Hlington
Arnheld
Paul Lewis
Capt
Hankey
Ap Inn
Gray Innifatte
New Prison
Clerkenwell
Sussex
John Peter de la Fontaine
Newgate
Samuel Chandler
Procinho
Lucas
R. Freeman
Pacer- Nofter
Abel
Mr. GessNner
R. and
J. Dodsley
Pall-mall
T. Durham
Golden Ball
Strand
T. Field
M. Collyer
Plough-Court
Ferter-Lane
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