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London News in Brief Return of Ill Shire Speaker and Seizures
The text reports on continuing political appointments and recoveries of notable figures in Essex and London, including the Earl of Anglesea to be Cofferer and Horatio Walpole as North Britain secretary. It notes train band parades planned in August and a death of a ship carpenter at Chatham, with naval appointments and smuggling seizures at Rotherhithe. It mentions a court hearing in Denmark Street, a robbery confessed by a suspect, and the capture of two Alexanders. Also cited are letters from St Christopher and Jamaica, ship actions near Rio de la Hache, and various maritime notices plus a weekly mortality and birth tally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heningham
Essex
Daniel Lambert
Conny
Middlesex
Michael Hillersdon
Bond
Enna
James Bertie
Defex
Earl of
Anglesea
Horatio
Walpole
North Britain
William Humfties
Charles Peers
Gerard Conyers
John Eyles
Robert Baylis
Willian' Billers
Tead
Prince
Chatham
the Admiralty
Hobbs
Gibraltar
Rotherhith
Justices of the Peace
House of Justice
Mercer
Denmark-street
St. Giles’s Church
Alexanders
George
John “Sutton
John Baker
Synonds
St.Giles’s
Marybone
Paddington
George Sutton
Symonds
New Prison
Newgate Staffordshire
John Sutton
George Lytton
Symmonds
Dourteed
Alexa Alexanders
Goodwood
Richmond
Rock-hill
Tank
Dean
Monmouth
Charles Phillips
John Chambers
St. Christpher’s
Richard'Coope
Eland
Jamaica
Conde Clavijo
Rio de la Hache
Cuba
Faifa
Bang OU Ceu
Dropfi
Stilborn
River Thames
St. Anne’s
Limehouse
Se Mary
Lambeth
Se Jamés
Garlickhith
Christen
Fetforch
City of London
de Lon Maye
Ald ‘En