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Acquittal and naval exploits amid wide Atlantic activity
The report details an acquittal in a capital case, Captain Wilson of the Pitt Indiaman locating a spice island and bringing cloves, Dutch pursuit and a warning threat. Additional items cover mail theft, public licensing at St Margarets Hill, scaffolding at Aldgate, senior judge ill health, a marriage in Edmonton, and various naval actions and privateer engagements across Ireland, Cork, Jamaica, and Newfoundland with prizes, captures, and troop movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Pitt Indiaman
Pondicherry
Géneral Post Office
Chester
Oet
St. Margaret’s Hill
Aldgate
Michael Foster
Feas
Brie O
Laft
Edmonton Church
Jonathan Morton’ Pleydell
Mails Jackson
Southgate
Hattem
Holland
John Vander Heart
Bencroft
Edinburgh
Highlands
North Britain
George Beauclerk
Glasgow
Port Louis
New York
Pickering
Fitch
Liverpool
Tortola
Levant
Antigua
Corke
Wexford
Waterford
Ramsay
Welch
Shaye
Castlehaven
Halifax
Quebec
Bourdeaux
St. Laurence
Chaleur Bay
Europe
Eustatia
Bristol
Douglas Ivas
Dominica
Sc. Joseph
England
Dublin
France
Wicklow
Middleton