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Wrecks and notices from a storm tossed coast and court
A cargo ship from Texel bound for Cadiz wrecked near Harlingen after a coastal storm. five bodies washed ashore and names uncertain. Reports of dignitaries appointed to royal posts, including Lord Litchfield and Lord Fitzmaurice. Obituaries and local notices follow, with smugglers seized and a post boy assaulted. A letter from Portsmouth notes ships ordered to quarantine, exports of wheat to Lisbon, and a mix of marriages, deaths, and court notices.
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Melvin
Virginia
Leith
Newcastle
Damzick
Matia Magdalena
Peter Kron
Texel
Cadiz
Harlingen
Lord Litchfield
Lord Viefcount Fitzmaurice
Earl of
Cecil Bishop, Bart
Lord Seward
Board of Green Cloth
Middlesex
St. Margaret’s
Westminster
Bridgette
Bristol
Robert Fox Lane
Bouchier
Yorkshire
Southampton Buildings
Chancery Lane
George Hawkins
Bury St. Edmunds
Suffolk
Hammersmith
Trehie
Capt
Jamaica
West Indies
Rhodes
Greyhound Inn
Richmond
Mr. White
Charterhouse
Duke of Cumberland’s
Pall- Mall
Snapley
Royal
Col
Clive
Worcester
Bath
Board of 'Ordnance
Ponsmouth
Day
Artillery
Hopfor
Collings
Ecken
Gosport
Deptford
General Post Office
West Mail
Staines
Bellfound Lane
John Thrail
Trail
Newgate
John Fielding
E Q
Peter Hinton
Bloomsbury Square
Hayes Road
Sessions Gate
Baily
Fleet-Lane
Bull
Hayes
J—n
King’s Arms
Seeé& Company Hall
Portsmouth
Spithead
Motherbank
Ambuscade
Baffett
Gibraltar
Bacchus
Cabb
St.George
Jones
Eleanor
Andrews
Charlotte
Champion
Tha
St. Helen’s
Lisbon
St. Laurence’s Church
Guild-Hall
Thomas Barlow
Esr
Barlow-Hall
County of Lancaster
Molly Worrall
Laurence Lane
Bew
Bear Inn
Oxford
Gilbert
John Gilbert
Deal
Downs
Antigua
Coulter
Guadalupe
Dun
Adventure
Ygrada
Salisbury
Mackulwain