PORT NEWS AND ARRIVALS AT SEA PORTS
PORT NEWS reports arrivals at Falmouth and Deal with ships from Neath Bristol Waterford and Barbadoes. It lists outward-bound Indiamen and other vessels with captains, destinations and wind conditions. Additional arrivals at Poole Penzance Scilly and Plymouth are noted along with a run of country news from Derby Newcastle and Birmingham including marriages, political commentary, and local incidents.
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Port News
Falmouth
Fan
Ce Elizabeth
Parminter
Sally
Bown
Neath
Charming Molly
Sanders
Bristol
Neptune
Harding
Waterford
Deal
Havannah and Cruttenden
Pringle
Barbadoes
Grown
Wherry
Leghorn
Hunter
Landifield
Barcelona
Success
Cafar
Williams
Lisbon
Plymouth
Triton
Barnes
Alicant
Edgar
Maitland
Ancona
Derby
Stainsby-house
Horsely-Wood-house
John Fletcher
Newcastle
Matthew Forster
Berwick
Esy
Grey Cooper
Big
Treasury
Sunday
Haddington
Scotland
Ogilvie
Navy
Miss Burn
Hermitage
London
William Bewick
Sunderland
Stockton
Robert Oakes
Stonebrdge
Billingham
Birmingham
Andrew Hackett
Moxhulhall
Miss Leigh
Lord Leigh
St. Mary’s Church
Stafford
John Williamson
Sally Hickin
Sherborne
George Yonge
Exeter
Knights of the Shire
Devon
John Waller
M—Li—Ry
Clowance
Cornwall
Leicester elects Joan Darker to Parliament in 1766
A letter from Joan Darker thanks Leicester voters for electing her to Parliament in place of the late George Wright. She pledges to serve the country and borough, dated January 24, 1766, Leicester. The notice also advertises new pamphlets by J. Almon on American affairs, with prices and titles.
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Leicester
Wright
Serjeant Whitaker
John Richmond Webb
Court of Common Council
St. Margaret Pattens
Road-lane
Dr. Birch
Meff. Braithwaite
Foulkes
Kernlby
Prior
Sclater
Thomas
Vincent
Whalley
Southwark
Brownlow-street
Long- Acre
Thomas Hodgson
St. James’ Park
St. Martin’s
Hick’s Hall
New Prison
Clerkenwell
West Smithfield
Chick-lane
Martha Harper
Fletcher
Leyton
Walthamstow
Stoup
Rome
Chevalier de St. George
Cardinal of York
Lisbon
Portugal
India Company
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Ailand
Owen
Scotland
Dundee
Ferry Sound
Norway
Great Britain
London
Paris
Duke’s Place
George Wright
Lam
Joan Darker
America
J. Almon
Burlington House
Piccadilly
Ain Town
Earl Temple
Rhode Island
Lord Dartmouth
Bolton
Jer. Dummer
New England
Francis Bernard
Massachusetts Bay
Consequences of Stamp Act Enforcement in Colonies Letter
A letter to the London Evening Post warns that enforcing the Stamp Act by force will wreck colonial trade worth about three million annually, shrink public revenue, burden taxation, drive hundreds of thousands into unemployment, demand more wartime taxes, and risk war with France and Spain. The writer urges Parliament to seek a wiser resolution to the dispute.
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London Evening Post
America
France
Spain
Lawyer’s Opinion on Juries as Fact Set in Criminals
The speaker asserts that a renowned lawyer recently stated publicly that juries are only judges of fact in criminal cases, not of the law, and notes the high regard previously held for the view.
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Wm Ant
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Ald. Alsop
Tho. Rawlinson
Charles Asgill
Richard Glyn
Matthew Blakiston
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Beckford
Wm, Stephenson
Robert Kite
Cartwright
Tho, Challenor
Henry Bankes
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House of Commons
Thomas Long
Moorfields
Tomlins
Worshipful Company of
Painter-Stainers
St. Michael Queenhide
the Holy Trinity
William Mason
John Brathwaite
Gibraltar
William Dacres
Fairfax
Westminster
Siear John Baptista Slicher
Amsterdam
Dutch East India Company
John Blower
Bocking
Essex
Rupert Eldridge
Soon
Geneva
Beaufort
Bronkenschwerdt
James Rowley
St. Paul's
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