Shipping notices and arrivals in Dover port news
In Dover arrivals include the Hananel Medd bound for Leghorn and the William Jefferys from Liverpool. Vessels Webb from Seville Milford Elizabeth Batchelor from Cork Three Brothers Ciak Elizabeth Flynn from Waterford Unity Owens from Havre Cadiz report Nov 28. Six Spanish merchant ships sail from the bay with varied cargoes under convoy of the St Laurent Man of War and rebel foot and stores aboard. Two French ships from Rochefort bring cannon and mortars for the King's arsenals.
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Dover
Devonshire
Webb
Seville
Milford
Elizabeth
Batchelor
Cork
Ciak
Rotteram
Flynn
Waterford
Unityy Owens
Havre
Cadiz
Porto Rico
Havanna
la Vera Cruz
Suenos Ayres
Carthagena
St. Laurent
Rochefort
Campbell Trial in Scotland Prolongs Jurisdiction Debate
From Edinburgh December 28 1769 the High Court of Justiciary issued judgment on their jurisdiction over the Mungo Campbell case and heard arguments on the indictment. Counsel for Campbell argued self defense and defence of property and honor while the prosecutor urged common sense and English law. The Lords debated the scope of jurisdiction with Lord Colfton expressing doubts, and the court then considered relevancy of the indictment and legal authorities cited.
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Robert Collen
Mar.Campbell
Baretti
Old Bailey
Campbell
Andrew Crosbie
Camp Bell
John M‘laurin
M‘laurin
Lord Eglington
Irael
Mr. Campbell
Maclean
House of Eglington
Sir Fletcher Norton
Lord Byron
Grotius
Puffendorff
Alexander Wight
Crosbie
M‘ Laurin
Lord
Campell
John Dalrymple
England
Deaths in Gloucester and Rochester Merchants
On Friday died here Mr. Nicholas Webb, wine merchant. In Rochester on December 29, Mr. Meredith Brazier, supposed to be worth near 20,000 pounds, passed away last week.
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Gloucester
Nicholas Webb
Rochester
Meredith
Constantinople orders barbery fleets to ready against Russian fleet
Advices from Constantinople claim the Grand Signor orders Morocco and Barbary princes to prepare naval forces to oppose a Russian entry into the Archipelago. Papal health reports say the Pope, injured after a horse fall, quips he never learned to ride. A riot threatened at Gravisend and crews threaten unrest near ships. News on sailors’ wages and a letter from South Carolina noting Rev. Farmer’s death and his fragile health.
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Constantinople
Morocco
Barbary
Rome
Elphinstone
Elfi
Glasgow
Tifhey
Lisbon
Darmouth
Adventure
Jamaica
Chatham
Downs
Gravisend
The
India Company
South Carolina
Farmer
Wandsworth
London Corn Market Prices and Bank Stock Report
December 28 report from Whitechapel Hay-market notes hay and wheat sales at Bear Key and Corn Market. Prices cover wheat flour bread, bread price unchanged, and various bank and government bond quotations including South Sea and India bonds.
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Whitechapel
Bear Key
Joseph How
William Marshall
London
India
Far South Sea
The Poet Praises Virtue Over Power in Turbulent Age
A printed verse excerpt praises restraint and virtue over conquest and force. It places a hero above lesser passions, citing historic figures like Alexander and Scipio to illustrate the ideal of marital fidelity and moral leadership. The piece transitions to extol a sovereign’s virtuous conduct as a model for rulers.
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Pecien
Phasbus
Cufltom
Alexander
Darius Rugi
Statira
Artifian
Scipio
Obsolete Works of Otway in New Three Volume Edition
A new edition of THOMAS OTWAY shows his plays poems and letters in three volumes offered by multiple London publishers at nine percent bound. Also advertised are medical remedies for urethral issues including bougies and patent pills sold by M Howland and others with various outlets and a note that letters to the patentee require postage.
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Thomas Otway
C. Bathur
T. Waller
J. and
F. Rivington
Hawes
Clarke
Collins
W. Johnston
T. Cafton
T. Lorgan
C. Corbett
W. Nicoll
T. Cadell
B. Whites T. Lowndes
Robinson and Roberts
T. Davies
T. Becket
M. Reeves
S&s
M. Howland
Audley-street
Oxford-road
W. Flegney
Gray’s
Inigate
Holbm
Richardon & Urquhacc
Royal Exchange
London
His Majesty
Learf
Bride-lane
Fleet
Vache
t+ Alban's-steer
Pall Mall
Collier and Davis
Acre
Fith-street-hill
Teytor
Toaback
Feller
Deptford
Hancé
Drigzitt
Graveford
Whe Fither
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Medd
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Nelson
Cornhill
Efingham
St. James’s
Mondy
Simes
Albemarle Street
St. John’s Square
Clerkenwell
Constanble
Red-Lion-street
New Prison
Hicks’s Hall
M‘ginnis
Robinson
Tuns
Spitalfields
Marriep
Hackney
George Marlie
Kitty Graham
Dalston
Robert Harrison
Princes-treet
Stanier
St. James
Shropshire
Bagwell
Greek-street
Soho
Miss Wheeler
Albemarle-street
J. Downs
Newgate Street
Betty Wildbore
Wood’s Close
Henbury
Henry Beavan
Eleanor Fisher
Northwick
Flight Scurry
East-freet
Red- Lion-square
Princes-street
Lothbury
John Willcox
Elq
Park-street
Grosvenor-square
Jonathan Mitton
Antigua
Col
John Martin
Guy’s Hospital
Richard Capstick
Clifford’s Inn
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