Ships and Arrivals in August News Brief
On August 12 deals sent several ships to their stations including Tuscany Frigate for the Straits and Wing Cheesman for Gibraltar. Arrivals include Hero Strivens at Dover from Granada and Oporto ships at Plymouth and Portsmouth with multiple vessels listed from Barbadoes Denmark and Rotterdam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Tuscany
Tidy
Streights
Wing
Cheesman
Gibraltar
John
White
Boston
Young Lion
Sarell
Bristol
Prosperous
Baldwick
Portsmond
Bell
Benvet
Liverpool
Peace
Wales
Launceston
Plymoch
Prince George
Porrie
Oporto
India
Wind S. W
Portmouth and Margate News from August 12
News from Portmouth announces Hound capt. Burr arrived at Spithead from Guinea and Glory Man of War capt. Ruthven sailed on a cruise. John Wilkes and party visit Margate and are greeted by Liberty sympathizers. bells ring. Various obituaries, executions, and incidents reported from Canterbury, Yarmouth, Plymouth, Liverpool, Oxford, and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portmouth
Spithead
Hound
Burr
Guinea
Ruthven
Dever
John Wilkes, Esq
Mike Wilkes
France
Calais
Margate
Carswell Winder
Halstead
Kemsinghum Seale
Maidstone
Yarmouth
Wales Pilman
Plymouth
Oxford
Bloxham
Tyfo
Lorthampton
Elvertoft
Thomas Plampin
Stanground
Huntingdon
James Kearney
Harold
Friskney
Boston
Lincoln
Empress of Russia Loa n Negotiations and Foreign Moves
Extracts from The Hague and Venice report a two million loan proposal secured by duties on Petersburg trade offered to Empress Catherine II, plus 800000 florins sought by Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen. Notes indicate Empress’s coolness with the Senate, Dantzick’s appeal for Prussia mediation, and Berlin overtures treated with contempt. Also, a Madrid ambassador change appears and Elphinstone’s victory near Jeffier Bey. Prussia aligned with Russia against Austria, per Venice dispatches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hague
Russia
Petersbourgh
Saxe-Hildbourghausen
Petersbourg
Riffin
Dantzick
Uflia
Pruffia
Dantzickers
Berlin
George Pitt
Madrid
William Henry Attelton
Portugal
Spain
Pitt
Venice
Elphinstone
Jeffier Bey
Prussia
House of Austria
Petersburgh
Letters from Pelafid reveal Moldavia's dire fate under Turks
Excerpts recount Moldavian rebels seized by Ottoman authorities with executions and abductions amid Turkish advance, plus reports of Danish battles near Algiers, and Gen Sommere rallying 90,000 troops near Madras. Notes from Paris describe a pirate engagement off Malabar and Captain Benard defending Le Doyard for three days before burning her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pelafid
Moldavia
Algerines
India
Sir John Lindsay
Bombay
Aurora
East Indies
Sommere
Madras
Paris
Mahe
Malabar
le. Doyard
Louis Benard
Latsars
Caligut
Benard
Flota
la Vera Cruz
Arthur Forrest, Esq
West Indies
Jamaica
Benfield
Berkshire
Arthur
Sterling
Thomas
New York
Jerseys
North America
Portugal
England
London
Royal
the Prince of Wales
Mott
Dutchess of
Manchester
Duke of Richmond
Society of Artists of Great Britain
Duxe
Riehmann
Incorporated Society of Artists of Great Britain
Lincoln Races at Lincoln with multiple heats and plates
The program outlines Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas and several colorfully staged heats on the two to five mile Lincoln course. Entries close at Waddington on Sept 1 with weights, rules, and steward decisions by noblemen, dukes, and the court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Post Office
Lombard Street
Kent
York
Justice Afton
Court of Chancery
Thomas Smith
Gray’s-Inn
Earl of Pomfret
Smith
Wedderburn
Wallace
Aspinall
Johnson
Eden
Lford Pomfret
Dunning
Lee
Walker
Dawson
Davenport
Chaytor
Swaledale
Lord Pomfret
Plymouth
Beckenham
Potmanfeet
Portman-square
Bear Key
Wimpole-street
Cavendish-square
Edward Freeman
May ‘Zbank
Haberdasher
St.Martin’sanes
Theobald’s Row
Trubey
Ertland-Street
Lincoln
Duke of Ancaster
Solty
County of
Sol
É&E
Robert Wilson
Waddington
N. B
Iain Haeion
Humphey
Sibrtion
White Hart
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Ship “News
Academy
S . Maiden-lane
W.wooxncerr
Tre Issac DE Vergy
Paria
Jonathan Brough
Temple
Bar
Henrie Ra
Countess Ofenvor
Price Ts
Clarendon
C Life
Houbricken
Dort
Westminster
Tenier
Meses Pre Catefoy
Americanus Pocock
Anderson
Maitland
Salmon
Ruttin
Atkyn
Burrow
Cunningham
Bookfeller
Rockey-Lane
Merlis
Merril, Woodyer
Matthews
Cambridge
Euwis Frick OB
Matthew Howland
Audley Street
Orford Road
Sord W
Flexney
Holbras
M Chardson
Uiquhare
Royal Exchange
L “Io Tecters
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