French and Spanish step toward Atlantic debacle hinted
The lettered item hints 18 Brest men of war and Toulon ships rendezvousing off Malaga to sail for Cadiz and free the fleet at Cadiz under Haddock. Combined French and Spanish squadrons would advance on the Canaries to recover Admiral Torres’s convoy. Maritime movements, arrests, marriages, and losses fill the week with royals, merchants, and seafaring news across London.
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London
France
Brest
Toulon
Rendezvouz
Malaga
Cadiz
Haddock
Canaries
Torres
Plate
States General Frontier Towns
Dinal
Mars
Electorate of Hanover
Lords of the Treasury
Horrex
Greenwich
Edgell
Deceas
Portsmouth
Sir John Norris
Admiral Cavendish
St. George
Royal Sovereign
Duke
Canbridge
Bedford
Elizabeth
Buckingham
Scipio
Blatt
Spithead
Sir John
Ile of Wight
Nassau
Lenox
Kennington
Downs
Lestock
West Indies
Vernon
Wentworth
Holland
Denmark
Sweden
Scotland
Haselingfield
Charles Frederick
Shoreham
Sussex
Sunbury Church
Middlesex
Miss Hudson
Sir Roger Hudson
James Bruce
St. Margaret's Church
Westminster
Miss Bruce
Coney of Essex
Scott
New Broad-Street
Sydenham
Dulwich
Middle-Temple
Richard Rose
Weedon
County of Bucks
Thomas Rose
Aylesbury
Surrey Street
Strand
John Newte Veale
Ratcliff Cross
William Taylor
St. Katherine’s
Gapper
Frida
Brian Cole
Ludlow
Salop
Hereford
Bishop’s Castle
Theald
George Turner
St. Evall
Cornwal
Exeter
Milone
la Vapper
Marie
Haynés
Chelsea
Norwich
Mantel
Monsley
Thomas Ross
Anne Davis
Newgate
Col. de Veil
Bannaster’s Alley
Thomas Alcot
Daniel Young
Samuel Hepwell
Stockholm
Cattigat
Copenhagen
St. Thomas’s
Marstrand
Riga
Amsterdam
Hope
Burshell
Barbadoes
Lancaster
Rochelle
Joséph
Drake
Clovely
Ireland
Plymouth
Promotions in Wentworths Regiments and Marines
The London Gazette lists promotions across Wentworths Regiments Moreton and Wolfe s Marines and related units. It names Captains Lieutenants and Ensigns in Harrison s Douglas s and Robinson s Marines Lowther s Cavendish s and Wynyard s among others with several majors and colonels noted, plus a royal command granting the City of London mayor and aldermen as Justices of the Peace with permanent quorum.
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Wentworth’s Regiment
Harman
Boswell
Lane
Pinfum
Godfrey
Offulstone
Rufane
Browne
Speed
Hart
Shamirie
Philips
Harrison
Regi
Loftus
de Laune
Campbell
Ingoldfbey
Magrath
Slater
Dean Poyntz
Cotterell
Lowther
Marines
Krazer
Edmondstone
Steuart
Foulkes
Jephson
Robinson
Innes
Gwyn
Norray
Foy
Sir Pat. Ma
Virafel
Robertford
Jenkins
Douglas’s Marines
Cockran
Duroure
Blathway
Wentworth
Willmott
Chambre
Mackay
Kempe
Dalrymple
London Gazette
Whitehall
City of
London
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Foot
America
Lene
Wynyard
Cottterell
Cavendish
Moreton
Coterell
Douglas
Fleming
Wolfe
Ceckran
Flemine