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Murderous duel at Spithead and a jealous officer’s end
An 18 gun French privateer attacked four Virginia men near the Isle of Wight. The Bomb and Infernal Bomb pursued, with both sides suffering deaths aboard the privateer and the Bomb. Later reports describe naval convoy movements to New York and Antigua, plus a Dublin-like payroll seizure at Spithead. A separate long account recounts the murder of Mr Matthews, the surgeon, by Mr Sterne in London, detailing Sterne’s violent temper, the quarrel with Mr Crawford, and Matthews’s attempts to aid him before Sterne’s attempted revenge ended in arrest and Newgate confinement.
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Eatra
Portsmouth
Spithead
Culloden
Plymouth
Virginia
Isle of Wight
Mallest
His
Antigua
Quebec
Raven
Havre-de-Grases
Hampshire
Duke of Bolton
Bartarks
Welch
Durell
Matthews
Sterne
R. Francis David Sterne
Heffe-Caffel
Heffe
London
England
Crawford
Crossstreet
Hatton-Garden
Grawford
Thake
Howe
Marl
Richard Matthews
Norice
Teilehes Abu
Sterné
Owen
Mpc
Matha
Aposh
Jescape
Newgate
P Ia Échcole
Pugh
Mr.Crawford
Mr. Pugh
Mr. Crawford
Cancarcely
Paton