Dispatches Describe Mobile Siege and Russian Empress Visit
From Mobile in March 1780 to Mohilov in June 1780, letters recount the Mobile garrison surrender after four days of trenches and a Pensacola march journal. A Hungarian guard reports the Russian Empress’s entry into Mohilow and a two hour private audience with the Emperor, followed by opera and public appearances.
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Holland
Madrid
Don Manuel Gonzalez
Regiment
Spain
Pensacola
Mobilie
Marca
Vienna
Mohilov
Russia
Prince Potemkin
Count de Cobenzvl
Petersburgh
Mohilow
Petersburg
Ludlow electors urged to judge conduct in Parliament
A Ludlow letter criticizes Lord Clive for voting with the Administration on key issues since entering Parliament. It questions his commitment to the constitution and warns burgesses to weigh his parliamentary record at the July 1, 1780, Ludlow posting.
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Burk
England
House of Commons
Lord Clive
Ludon
YREENs SPIRIT of the BANKRUPT LAW enlarged edition
This day was published in one volume 8vo price 78 bound a New Editor being the fourth greatly enlarged and improved of YREENs SPIRIT of the BANKRUPT and LAWS A complete survey of the laws and determinations on that subject with precedents infractions and a new copious index Printed by his Majestys Law Printers for E Brooke at Temple Bar Bound in Borough High Street and Fleet Street 9783
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Tor E. Brooke
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London Peers Attended by Duke and Earl at St James Park
Londor reports His Majesty was attended by the Duke of Northumberland and the Earl of Oxford in the House of Peers on Saturday. Troops in St James's Park lined the front as he passed, with salutes rendered. Gazette notes Address to Sir Henry Clinton and Admiral Arbuthnot from Charles Town residents, Coventry, and Leicester thanking the King for measures to suppress disturbances and the conquest of Charles Town. Court of Common Council debated an humble Address to thank the King for aid to quell riots, with long discussions among Aldermen and Commoners and a Core Committee to draw up the Address.
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House of Peers
Duke of Northumberland
Earl of Oxford
St. James’s Park
Henry Clinton
Arbuthnot
Charles Town
Coventry
Leicester
Townsend
Wilkes
Newnham
Woodridge
Leeky
Dornford
Hurford
Merry
Thorp
Sharp
Judd
British ships prizes and military promotions fill week
The Aldermen postpone the Committee to the next Court. The Anna Teresa packet bound for Charles Town to carry mail departs from the General Post Office next Thursday. Orders to raise new regiments are expected, and Captain Tarleton earns a rapid promotion. Prizes aboard the Vessels from Havannah, Corke, and London routes are detailed, with privateers Puzzuolo del Lavoro, Fort Louis, and Dauphine taking ships and ransoming others. Directors of the London Assurance Corporation are named, Kew Gardens reopens on Tuesdays, and Edinburgh’s plate controversy prompts political friction. Prisoners tried at the Old Bailey include Theophilus Brown for demolishing a chapel. Marriages and deaths present in brief notices.
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Anna Teresa
Crarles Town
South Carolina
Charles Town
General Post Office
U. S. Puzzuo
Dolphin
Guernsey
Lisbon
Sarah
William
Corke
Liverpool
Fairy
Webber
London
Quebec
Falmouth
Land’s End
St. George’s Channel
Broho
Lewis
Newhaven
Land
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London Assurance Corporation
Matthew Arbouin
William Arnold
Anthony Aubert
John Lucie Blackman
John Brogden
Mark Cramer
John Free
Samuel Gardinerson
Samuel Turner
Kew Gardens
Edinburgh
Old Bailey
Theophilus Brown
Mary Crook
Romith Chapel
White-street
Moorfields
Whursday
George Pinkney
Newgate-stret
Betsey Hood
Gould
Briarly
Manchester
Miss Grape
Windsor
Bisham Abbey
Berks
John Hobby Mill
Barr
Kentington
Swale
Barnes
Surrey
Henry Gregory
Leadenhall-street
Totteridge
Herts
Stephen Gomez
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Trials of the rioters at the Old Bailey Saturday
Judge Athurst informs the jury that after full deliberation the evidence of informers rewarded for convictions is admissible in life and death trials. The bench notes a general legal maxim against informer testimony but cites necessity to reward witnesses in dangerous cases seeking public justice.
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Old Bailey
Athurst
Ftae
Trials of the week reveal wide use of unwelcomed evidence
A century old report describes trials for arson and destruction in Moorfields and Whitechapel, where judges debated admissibility of interested testimony tied to rewards. George Smpton escapes conviction for setting fires amid cautious juries. several others, including Abraham Davis and Daniel Evans, are discharged or acquitted due to character, timing, or questionable witnesses, while Theophilus Brown faces conviction for pulling down a widow Crook's house though mercy is urged.
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Parliament
Crown
Justice Ashhurst
George Smpton
Vier
Amedee de la Tour
Marquis de Corder
Sardinia
Abraham Davis
George Becket
Fleet
Gul-ftreet
Daniel Evans
Lord Mansfield
Thomas Sewell
Rolls
Thas
Edward Danson
Judice
Wood-street
Kirby
High Water at London Bridge Forecast
Weather notice shows high water at London Bridge on Wednesday morning around 6 M after 11, with afternoon level near 76 M after 1, and Thursday morning 6 M after te, afternoon 4 My after 12.
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London Bridge
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