Public Notices and Ship News From August Deck
A digest of court announcements, marriages, deaths, and ship movements. Listings include workers’ classes at royal docks, marriages in London and Scotland, deaths in India and Paris, and sailors and ships arriving or sailing from Deal, Cork, Glasgow, and other ports with various cargoes and wind reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Daubeney
Bristol
Scotland
Hugh Wynne Jones
Treforworth
Fea
Grace Williams
Milton
Caroline Cracklon
Charles Cracklon
Hayes
Middlesex
Mr. Holyland
Dorrel
Great Queenstreet
Charlton
Kent
Robert Thornton
Witchcot
Fleetstreet
Lower Grosvenor
Earley
Taylor
Deal
Roebuck
Downs
Arthur
Coast and Bay
Candy
Oporto
Richmond
Jamaica
Echo
Moncur
Roebuk
Aéteon
France
Arethura
Swift
Lante
Peggy
Martin
Sophia
Lunn
Attica
Liverpool
Naffau
Wigner
Virginia
Louisa Eleanor
Kirkpatrik
Antigua
Extraordinary case of blindness cured by Baron de Wenzel
The petitioner thanks Baron de Wenzel for a cure after years of blindness. He describes petitioning from Clarborough Nottinghamshire and London care at Burlington House Piccadilly. The baron reportedly left London September 16 and sent daily assistants to attend him, with the patient awaiting inquiry next Monday. Witness Thomas Beestowe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron de Wenzel
Palt’mall
Clarborough
Nottingham
Baron de Weaze
London
Burlington
Piccadilly
Thomas Beestowe
Letter From General Lee to General Burgoyne Boston 1775
A printed copy of General Lee to General Burgoyne arrives in Boston, praising Burgoyne, warning against ministerial schemes, and urging restoration of liberty. Lee argues taxation without consent would subvert the empire and condemns Gage and court influence while praising Howe and Continental resolve. He recounts personal experience across colonies, stresses American courage, and warns Burgoyne of dangers from royal policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lur
Buncoyne
Boston
Lee
Portugal
Burgoyne
Philadelphia
St. Vincent’s
Hondun
America
Apeech
Lan Ranning
Gage
Laffert
Society of Fools and Knaves
Almérica Lab
Provinciais
Colonel Grant
General Howe
Howe
Bostonians
East India Company
Saint James's
St. Stephen
Burgoine and Lee Letter Reply on Public Liberty
A fragmented excerpt presents General Burgoyne's July 8 3775 reply to General Lee. It outlines his lifelong admiration for public liberty, the British constitution, and distrust of colonial disputes. The letter expresses personal friendship despite political conflict and commits to concise principled stance rather than full debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bunncoyne
Resistance and rights in colonial governance debate
A speaker argues that legitimate resistance targets usurpation of power and the preservation of constitutional parts. He cites Charles I, the Long Parliament, and 1683 events to show how political theory shaped colonial tensions, urging action against external taxation and defending parliamentary supremacy while appealing to British leaders and key figures for accord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tcmple
Locke
Charles the Jit
James the Id
Cragen
Osilé
America
Britain
Great Britain
England
Lond
Taft
Pareliament
Ayeyn
Vhanet
Sheig
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Richard Williams
Haberda
Guildhall
Eliezer Chater
David Rivers
Lombard-street
Ebenezer Dix
Chester
Jamey Croome
Pater-nofter-row
Samuel Maydwall
Vinecourt
Spitalfields
Aryfalter
Thomas Dade
Dawid Eaty
St. Giles’s In
Henry Stephens
Bampton
Devonshire
Apothecary and Cornfaéter
Llondone Inn
Exeter
London-Bridge
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