London News Summary 1770 Court Aids and Naval Shifts
Court officials and ministers joined the Great Seal ceremony as Sir George Yonge and Sir Percy Brett resigned from the Admiralty. A new Grantham MP is elected to replace Sir John Cutt. Reports detail army pay needs, a shipwreck off Land’s End with all hands lost, Corsica politics, and Lisbon Vatican reconciliations. Interment of the Russian captain at St Thomas’s, and city notices on civic elections and local marriages follow.
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London
George Yonge
Percy Brett
Admiralty
Grantham
Lincolnshire
John Cutt
Brownlowe Cutt
Jodlcheiler
Chester
s-End
Earl of Elgin
Codke
Portmouth
the Hague
Italy
Court of
France
Parma
Spain
de Mello Y Carvalho
Lisbon
Copenhagen
Hague
Milter
Holy See
Paris
Sully
Philadelphia
St. Christophers
General Assembly
Island
St. George
Bafleterre
England
Elphinstone
St. Thomas’s Church
George Onslow
Horne
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
John Darker
Treasuirer
Thomas Harley
Shanimously
William Baker
Baffishaw
John Birt
Wood-street
Court of Common Council of London
Marquis of
Dodd
St. Mildred’s Church
Bread-street
Harrison Thwaites
Basing Lane
Mary Wood
Chatham
John Inglis
Anne Stewyart
Wardcour Street
Soho Square
Philip Rawlings
Sheerness
Parke
Haverfordwesl
South Wales
Howel Davies
Ripon
Yorkshire
Thomas Hong
Piccadilly
Barbara Jacks
Clapham
Jonathan Wilson
Lamb
Teresa Duncombe
Masque and Jubilee of Patriots in a London theatre
The piece opens in an Apothecary shop with Inoculator and Faith Pinners debating inoculation of public opinion against petitions. A heated scene follows with conscripts, looser talk from Mrs Ortin and Mrs Gimmer, and a risqué masque. The Jubilee of the Patriots ends the performance with songs praising Liberty and Wilkes.
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L Consul
Stamp
Incendiary
Pam
Noddy
Pega Faith Pinners
M——es
Poltroons
Pensiontis
Ortin
Gimmer
Ttr
Aasthor
Society of Cappadocians
Arrival and Dispatch of East Indiamen and Other Vessels
On Friday January 26 shipping news reports several East Indiamen including the George Brackstone and Aiventure Ham bound for Jamaica and Tortla with arrival notices for May Langhlia and Eiiza beh from Maryland and Marchioness of Adex from Teneriffe. Also listed are arrivals at Dover Hobe from New York Peter from Honduras and Argyle from Jamaica. Boston Betty from London. Lisbon Friendship from Newfoundland and Penuin from duty. Genoa Neptune Kray from Petersburch. Ancona Lyestoff from Yarmouth. Constantinople Union from London.
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Dover
Hobe
Davis
New-York
Peter
Kelly
Honduras
Argyle
Gibbs
Jamaica
Boston
Betty
Robson
London
Lisbon
Friendship
Penny
Newfoundland
Assembly dissolved by Colonial Governor at Newbern
New York reports that in North Carolina the General Assembly met at Newbern around November 3 or 4, and was dissolved a few days later by Governor William Tryon over alleged mismanagement of public funds. Philadelphia notes a duel in St Augustine on Oktober 31 in which Lieut Goodacre of the 9th regiment was shot through the body and died shortly after.
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New-York
North Carolina
General Assembly
Newbern
William Tryon
Philadelphia
Lieut. Goodacre
St. Augustine
Pensacola
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Newcastle
J. J—nas
Grafton
Parnasius
Wilkes
Faction
Neddy
Theendiary
Pinner
Hell
St. James’s
Consul
Mrs. Orrin
Venus
Britain
Dakce
Apollo
Britannia
Swift
Liberty
Freedom
Whitehead
Cupid
Thomas Otw
C. Bathorit
T. Waller
J. and
Ton
Hawes
Clarke
Collins
W. Johnston
T. Longmn
C. Corbet
W. Nicoll
T. Cade
T. Lowndes
Robinson
Robens
T Becket
M. Reevese