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Memoirs of Empire and Local Happenings in London
A late eighteenth century column blends imperial reminiscence with daily urban notices. The piece recalls Major Munro’s Bengal victory and the East India Company’s vast reach, then shifts to a rapid parade of local events: a Winchester Hall election for an upper Beadle, weddings, deaths, ship incidents, a barge collision, a river rescue, a mutilated nose in a Yorkshire tale, grain prices, and social entertainments. It closes with reports from Barbadoes and Jamaica on French activity, colonial governance, and financial concerns, plus a Blackwall seizure of china hampers and customs actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Major Munro
Bengal
Suja Dowla
India
East India Company
Alexander the Great
Indus
Ganges
St. Helena
Royal
George
Skoslowe
Oumyard
Tho
Grant
Mefi
Capron
Whichel
Baxton
Milne
Jennings
Richmond Church
Richard Sheppard
Surry
Anne Lovell
Warwick-lane
Lambert
Ives
Cammomnile-street
Mr. Ives
Westminister
Rotherhithe
Mr. Innes
Waverman
Shadwell
Smithfield Market
Tooley Street
Browning
St. Sepulchre’s Churca
Marquis of
Sepney
Limehouse
Conqueror
Broders
Wickert
Neptune
Yorkshire
Mark-lane
Lloyp
Lord Granby
Hanover
Earl of Huntingdon
Great Britain
Duke of Grafton
Old Broadstreet
Duke of Richmond
Perons
Richard Glover
Charles Garth
Elgis
América
Barbadoes
Martinico
Jamaica
Great Council
Common Council
Pollman Square
Merybone
China
Blackwall