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London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 09, 1780

Page

3

Turbulent Atlantic News and Deployments Abroad

Dec 13 report through the Atlantic notes English Consul's arrival after meeting the Moorish ruler in Tangier and royal updates. It highlights Cadiz/Guichen movements, Brest officer dispatches, and plans to raise independent companies of lieutenants for rapid recruitment, along with ship movements and prize captures.

Yeterday France Flanders Larrache Shimi Bay of Tangiers Toulon Islands Count de Guichen Marseilles Cadiz Levant America Iris Paris d’Itaing Spain Gibraltar Bay Don Cordova le Terrible Fr Theitest Count de Maurepas Brest Whitefall

Wid W S W Arrives Flying Fish on voyage to Jamaica

Deal December 10 report lists W S W arriving the Flying Fish cutter and remaining with several royal ships for Jamaica. Names include Dromedary Daphne Leander Fortune Sultana Sprightly Gaul Delways Mibead Estridge Abington Deep Bay Clarks Loyal Briton Young Monferats Tortington Wardell Polly Mahony Fotherly Fame Lander Portsmouth York transport at Nantz Boston Hull Good Samaritan Plummer Ostend Av St Bustatia Hope Brodie Newfoundland Leith Charming Nelly Pringle Riga.

Thomas, Mann Monferats Tortington Wardell Oporto Polly Mahony Cork Fotherly Bristol John Lewis Plymouth Fame Nantz Boston Luke Ostend Hull Good Samaritan Plummer Rotterdam Av St.Bustatia Hope Brodie Newfoundland Leith Charming Nelly Pringle Riga

Crescent cutter Hope reports engagement with enemy fleet near Cape Finisterre

The Crescent cutter from Admiral Darby’s fleet reached Falmouth after a gale, reporting 27 ships in line of battle and contact with a large English warship. Bienfaisant suffered rudder damage, several ships were separated, and intelligence from Kinsale notes 33 enemy ships north of Bourdeaux and Nantes. Naval officers speculate two distinct squadrons forming a major fleet intent on engagement and convoying trade. The Alexander arrived in distress with news of the Duke’s dire condition.

St. Albans Portland Darby Bristol Brownlow, Chester Gloucester Africa Pitt Plymouth General Post Office Mile End Norwich Bercraft Arnold London Post Office Ireland Hydra Cork South Carolina Lord George Germaine Prince Edward Grand Fleet Hope Sulk Falmouth Admiral Darby Cape Finisterre Cant Macbride Diaby Hesy Tommake England Namie Guindsmith Cumberland Bellona Duke Alexander Kinsale Bourdeaux Nantz Crescent Minithy

Prices of COR Wheat and related grains on market

Market list shows COR Wheat at 375. a 473.0d and various grains with prices: Rye 18s to 22s 0d, Oats 108 to 153, Barley 188.3 71s, Malt 26s 318, Grey and White Peas around 203 2258.0d and 25s to 28s, Gerday at Bear Key with Boiling Peas 32s, Tick Beans 19s to 24s, Small ditto 25s to 773.0d, Tares 208 to 258, Flour 42s per sack, Second tert 39:, Rape Seed 13.1058 per laft.

Gerday Bear Key

Royal appointments to trade and plantations commissioners

From the London Gazette December 9 the King names the Right Hon Thomas Lord Grantham the Hon Robert Spencer commonly called Lord Robert Spencer the Right Hon William Eden the Hon Thomas De Grey Andrew Stuart Edward Gibbon Hans Sloane and Benjamin Langlois Esquires to be his Majesty's Commissioners for trade and plantations Also appointed Charles Middleton Esq Sir John Williams Knight Edmund Hum George Marth Timothy Brett fills out the commission

St. James’s Dec Thomas Lord Grantham Robert Spencer William Eden Thomas de Grey Andrew Stuart Edward Gibbon Hans Sloane Benjamin Langlois Charles Middleton John Williams Knight Edmund Hum George Marth Timothy Brett

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