War letters from New York and Long Island amid British retreat
The Essex Farmer prints long extracts arguing British campaigns in America, noting Howe and Washington, the fall of Newport, long island actions, and losses of ships, personnel, and revenue. It contains rates of losses, estimates of national reputation damage, and predictions about the war’s course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anata Vine
America
England
Great Britain
Boston
New. York
Carolina
Prince of Hesse
Perman
Mall
Long Island
New York
White Plaina
Fort Washington
Canada
Lakes
Newfoundland
West India
Glasgow
Invincible
Frazier
Fey
France
Ordnance
hSi Messes
Adversities in War and Society Abroad and at Home
A long dispatch notes Howe’s winter quarters at New York and Howe’s limited action next spring. It discusses Parliament’s draft orders, ministerial displeasure, and Fox’s diplomacy, plus a German observer’s critique of English manners abroad. It mentions marriages among nobles, moral warnings, and various naval movements, merchant arrivals, and a local assault leading to a purse and saddle theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dartmouth
New-York
Howes
New York
Howe
Bolttom
Fox
Paris
England
Italy
France
Atlon
Bezithe
Thades
Plymouth
Dorio
Cape
Finisterre
Zachary Bailey
Hodge
Portmouth
Hooke
Guinea
Egmont
Elphinston
Exeter
Moore
Romney
Salter
Squirrel
Douglas
Spithead
Linzee
Bill of Ruination for the year 1796 from Newmarket races
A satirical Bill of Mortality listing vices and social ills for 1796. Items include kept mistresses, gambling, lotteries, swindlers, French goods and disease, leading the tone, fortune hunting, dress, and mirthful excesses. Mentions White's and Boodle's clubs and creditors' warnings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newmarket
Robinhood Society
White
Boodle
Stapleton
Lone
Pra
Robinson
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Ticonderagy
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Harlem
Marcock
New
Rochelle
Dvill
Staten
Island
New- York
Rica
Washington
West Indies
Rhode Island
Bostomi
Army
Sc. &c
Windling
P.S
Nore Cops
Philadelphia
Spain
Lord W. Mouth
Pirit
Caroina
Lord Stirling
York
White Plains
Waltegmayer
Europe
Congress
Lord Cornwallis
Salvation
Alves
Vitory
Lester
Deal
Far
Olive Branch
Powel
Whitehaven
Yarmouth
Liverpool
Downs
Mary
Ravens
Senegal
Edwards
Grenada
Neptune
Bathell
Gibraltar
Wind S
Chelsea
Esther Eymer
Jackson
Leadenhall-freet
Chelmsford
Epping Forest
Cockpit Royal
Westminster
Cruttenden
Stanton
India
Sea
Tondo
Ditta
Consol
Navy and
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