Ship News and London Gazette Briefs from 1770 Items
Wednesday’s ship news records arrivals at Antigua and Hull with ships from London Rotterdam Oporto Jamaica and Maryland plus notes from the London Gazette on parliamentary proceedings court appointments and military promotions. The document lists crews officers and recent transfers in a dense civic news roundup.
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Antigua
King
Glassow
Matthews Guillaume
London
Oliver
Itm
Margaret
Rebecca
Lander
Ditto
Rots
Betty
Ouchterlony
Nelly
Hannah
Norman
Carolina
Granades
Francis
Compton
Lotton
Hull
Aan
Jacksort
Rotterdam
Gardner
Oporto
Naples
Neptune
Silvers
Yarmouth
Dover
Cesar
Crockat
Jamaica
Downs
Royal Briton
Greaves
Maryland
Portmouth
Unity
Wright
Turtles Sent from Boston Aboard Long Passage Vessel
A letter from Mr Wilkes acknowledges receipt of two turtles sent from Boston by several gentlemen in July. One turtle weighed 45 pounds and the other 47 pounds. The sending vessel had just completed a 45 day voyage.
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America
Boston
New England
Cap. Hood
Wilkes
Trelan D. Wae Tee The Dublin Merchants Guild Quarter Day
Yesterday, on quarter day, the Dublin Guild of Merchants agreed unanimously that it is both a united right and public duty for members of a free state and corporate bodies to attend to and declare their views on public measures. It was also resolved that committees should instruct their representatives in national concerns.
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Trelan D. Wae Tee
Guild of Merchants
Dublin
Free State
Ftatesman
England
Lord Duke
Junius
Europa captain changed as three-year term ends
In Portsmouth on January 21, the Europa’s captain Rulan Sin of War leaves command as Capt Thomson’s three-year term expires. Several vessels from the port and others are taken into Rusian service as transports to carry soldiers and seamen from the Northern Eagle condemned as unfit for service. Also noted, Richard Poley, Esquire, died in Rochester on January 20.
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Country News
Portmouth
Fan
Europa
Rulan Sin
Saga
Ortsmouth
Far
Thomson
Rufsian
Northern Eagle
A . Rochester
Richard Poley
Eig
London notes and political reports in Parliament and war
London dissects House of Peers events with Bishop Shipley slated to preach on Charles the Martyrdom anniversary. War Office grants pardons to deserters under conditions while distant battles and Turkish front moves unfold in Warsaw and Bulgaria. Anecdotes mingle with election oaths, peerage rumors, and arts elections as Wilkes prison debates loom.
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House of Peers
Shipley
St. Asaph
Charles
War Office
Warsaw
Kashkin
Brohilov
Danube
Montecuculu
Hxemus
Bulgaria
Romania
India House
Hopewell
Jourseau
Barcelona
Salo
Supra
de Grey
Marquis of
Rockingham
Earl Temple
Thomas Pym Hales
Eig
Dover
Paul Feilde
Ele
Ted
Hertford
House of Commons
Alexander Wedderburne
Efg
Bishop’s Castle
Arnold Nesbitt
Ditto
Winchelsea
R——d P
T, Bart
Taw
Flint
St. James’s
F—r
Sir Richard
Wales
Richard
Praise of the Duke of Grafton from a Loyal Majority
A London reader extols the Duke of Grafton and his administration, praising his virtue and steadiness. The letter argues the majority supports his policies over his opponents, lauding his mastery of human passions and prudent governance during wartime. It likens critics to fatigued actors and praises national harmony under his leadership.
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London
Grafton
Duke
Duke of Grafton
Great Britain
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