Arrivals and sailings from Barbadoes to Ireland and Europe
Ships arrive and depart with crews from Christiana and Stad Tonsberg. The Industry winds to New England while the Crozier sloop remains. Hawke and Bridget drop anchor at Cape Fear and Cork respectively. Several vessels sail for Gibraltar Jamaica and Bristol with names and origins listed. Vessels from Rotterdam Dublin Waterford and Leghorn visit Cork Hull and Bristol.
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Hawke
Featherston
Barbadoes
Cape Fear
Live Oak
Lundberry
Bristol
South Carolina
Bridget
Berril
Newfoundland
Cork
Lenderhoff
Arnett
Rotterdam
Ditto
Neptune
Bell
Waterford
Charlotte
Sanders
Dublin
Alexander
Morris
Santa Cruz
Princess Augusta
Wynn
Dantzick
Kent
Hall
Leghorn
Providentia
Sorenson
Norway
Elizabeth
Sinclair
Betty
Wright
Petersburgh
Hull
Prolonged Parliament Prorogation and London News
London reports prorogation to October 7 by royal commission with the Lord Chancellor. Notices detail arrivals of Danish minister, Russian ambassador, and dignitaries. local street openings, marriages, and deaths. Crime briefs cover robberies, prison transfers, and trials, with shipping and colonial trade updates and contraband seizures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Tyrwhite
House of Commons
Count de Dieddén
Denmark
Jermyn-street
Copenhagen
Duke of Dorset
Knowl
Kent
Lord Falmouth
Cornwall
Lord Middleton
Nottinghamshire
Earl
St. James’s
Charles Townshend
Elqa
Contention for Power Stales a South Seas Island
Postscript argues that political rivals will reverse prudent measures once in power. It cites a South Seas island acquired by the late ministry with a safe harbour and healthful climate. The writer warns the new rulers may relinquish it, harming national security and peace vis a vis Spain, urging republican vigilance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Spain
Bourbon
Your
C. Pro Republica
Printer of the London Evening Post warns against purgatory mortuary demands
An August 14 1767 notice from Chichester attacks priestly mortuary charges as a Catholic deceit. It argues Protestant readers should beware such demands for departed souls and cites two widows and a bereaved gentleman as targets. It condemns clergy for exploiting grief to collect payments and links the issue to fears of Popery during a time of religious tension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Edward Chester
Cockerhatch
Hertford
Barkway
Hague
Jacob Brant
Baron de Warlenaer
Amélia Bentinck
Henry
William Duke of Portland
John Goddard
Rotterdam
Hackney
Sheargall
Dyer
Great Bell-alley
Coleman-street
King-street
St. Ann’s
Didrick Nicolaus Anderson
Lady Hudson's
Robert Tracy
Stanway
Gloucester
Lord Tracy
John Tracy
Ann
Robert Atkyms
Swell
Bath
Court of Exchequer
House of Lords
Roger Hudson
Sunbury
Middlesex
John Tracy Atkins
Great Ormond-street
George Beauman
Berks
Red Lion-street
Clerkenwell
Robert Abercromty
Beldham
Walton Upon Thames
Walthamstow
Essex
Covent-garden
Lord Clive
Berkeley-square
Chickane
King-itreet Chapel
Carnaby Market
Gearing
Lechlade
Cirencester
Fairford
Paddington
Long-Acre
Thames
Millbank
Packer
St. Mary’s Scilly
Southwark
Smithfield Market
Black Friars Stairs
Oxford Road
Joseph Girdler
Theobald
Hicks’s Hall
Towerhill
New Prison
Towershal
Whitechapel
Clerkenwedl
Alderman Cockayne
Compter
Scott
Gracechurch-street
Mansion- Howse
Snows Fields
New
Scot
Plate
Plenius
Shorter
Strand
Uxbridge
Tyburn
Belton
George Whitmore
Hoxton
Clerkenwell Bridewell
Golden
Newgate
London
Guildhal
Oyer and Terminer
Carlisle
Thomas Nicholson
Thomas Parker
Penrith
Frjdjay
Joseph Metford
Matheerini Marax
William Mots
Kennington-common
Surry
Maraux
Church of
Rome
Chichester
London Evening Post Letter on Brownrigg Murder Verdict
A correspondent disputes the surgeon’s opinion and asserts the apprentice girl died after prolonged whipping. He argues the entire chain of inhumane treatment caused the death, not a single act, and that the younger Brownrigg should remain implicated in the murder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Evening Post
Meres
Brownrigg
Mureder
To the Printer of the London Evening-Post
A reader pledges loyalty while denouncing a pedantic critic named Meres and praising Roul eau with a prophecy that Roffeau and D H will rise in ages to come as their names endure and be celebrated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rouleau
Roffeau
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Mediterranean
Fraser
Algiers
Carlos
Caius College, Cambridge
Charles Moss
St. David's
Poland
Rathbone Place
Tottenham Court Road
Call’d Percy
Holborn
Broad St. Giles’s
Nightinpale
Atkins
Hatton Garden
Jolli
Miss Copenhall
Copenhall
Suffolk-street
Richard Hazeland
Frith&reet
Soho
Miss Lovéday
Pulteney-street
Lloyd's
China
Cruizer
Free-school-lane
Tooley-street
Southampton
Portland
Isle of Wight
Whitehaven
Noah
Mr. Boomer
Abel
J. Collyer
Plough-Court
Fetter-Lane
J. Dodsley
Pall-mall
T. Durham
Cockspur Street
F. Newbery
Paternoster Row
Messiah
Postscript
London Evening-Post
Mr. Meres
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