Wind E. 8. B. Blows Hard on Outward-Bound British Ships
A fragmentary antique notice lists a fleet of outward-bound vessels from various ports including Dublin Ostend Leghorn Nantucket Baltimore Jamaica Antigua and Maryland with names such as Kin g East Indiaman Endeavour Britannia General Wolfe Queen Charlott Scipio and Nancy among others, buffered by wind conditions and voyage tone.
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Grawpfind
Fan
de Ann
Catharine
Brown
Dublin
Dahl
Ostend
King of Sardinia
St. Barbe
Halfgurel
Meads
Anna Maria
Shaw
Goodwill
Leghorn
Atfeild
Ratchford
Whalebone
Jenkins
Nantuckerr
Conway
Bass
Britannia
Daverton
Privy Council and Windsor Court Notes and Events in London
London dispatches recount a thin levee at St James s and the Privy Council breaking up before four. Lord Clare and the Earl of Pembroke travel to town, with nobles hosting entertainments and a notable charity effort by the Duke of Bedford. Reports span mutterings of Popery, wool smuggling probes, Halifax news from Nova Scotia, and a planned wooden bridge budget. Court notices include marriages, deaths, executions at Tyburn, and local crime. Weather, shipping losses, and street crimes accompany varied 1769 era items.
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London
St. James’s
Privy Council
Queen’s Palace
Great George-Street
Gosfield
Essex
Lord Clare
Wilton
Earl and Countess of Pembroke
Col
Ligonier
Paris
Duke of Norfolk
St. James’s Square
Duke of Melford
France
Lewis Drummond
Earl of Melford
James the Second
Lord Lewis
Peterhead
Culloden
John Dummond
Royal
Duke of Bedford
Bedfordshire
Lingcoln’s Inn Hall
Geneva
Nobman
Frances
Great Britain
Leland
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Glasgow
William Campbel
Gorham
Gould
Gwen
Lattham
Middlesex
Battersea
Chelsea
Devonshire
Webb
Whitby
Scarborough
Shields
Golden Cross
Charing Cross
Spitalfields
Taft
Christchurch
James Price
Ratcliff Highway
Sukey Odvit
John Burnell
Poland Street
Smailman
Great Ruffel-street
Jonathan Barnsley
Queen
John Lord Viscount Mayo
Kingdom of Ireland
Garrett
Garratt
Chancery-lane
Maneux
Althouse
King-street
Cranstoun
Hay Market
Dudridge
Bridgewater
Boddeley
Bath
Berwick Upon Tweed
Palmer
Hicks’shall
Thomas Platten
Bucklayer
Old-Street
St. Luke's
Pratten
Banker
Hackney
Multon
Joseph Baxter
Levy
Wormwood-street
Houndsditch
Srillalley
Hollindiolitely
Devonshire Square
ayé‘shyYor
Rafely
Samuel Orton
William Thornhill
Captain Thornhill
William Walker
William Johniston
Newgate
Tyborn
Orton
Southwark
Thornhilk
Thornhill
Thorphill
Johnston
Walker
Lord Ferrers
Tyburn Vn
Baker
Cyp
Portsmouth
William and
Elizabeth Bowen
Plymouth
Ramsgate
Theieriheach Instaler
Torbay
Great Yarmouth
Billingsgate
North Road
Stamford
Rotherhithe
Chedbury
St. Edmund’s Bury
Dublin
Uxbridge
Newport
Shepherd’s Bush
Huntingdonshire
William Primate
Aldersgate-Street
Charlotte Knapp
Gentility Misread in a World of Glitter and Gin
Postscript criticizes modern pretentious gentility arguing true gentlemanliness rests on internal virtues rather than birth or show. It condemns gaming debauchery and social excess as degrading conduct that cannot earn real gentility, urging moderation and moral character as the true standard.
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Wirhover
Worcestershire
Warwickshire
Hants
Wilts
Bood Turhpike
Ché Sea
T. W. Ae
Scoley
Ham-Yard
Girear Windhill Street
Haymarket
London Evening-Pot
Merges
Gonduet
William of
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T_ronk
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Olfreer Road
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Wither
David Gunton
Janes Ward
Méansion-House
Robben Y Wive
Perisi
Alf Agnes
Ste
Hores
Bowen
South Enuance Picts Royal Exchange
Meres
G Baily
B&tyman
Turner
Fetter-Lane
Fleet-streec
Gouland
Holler
Middie-Row
Holbourn
J. A. Janson
Little Cranbourn-Alley
Leicester
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