News From The Dutch Trade War And Lisbon Earthquake News
Letters from Lisbon report a terrible fire in the city destroying warehouses and merchandize, with English merchants said to suffer while convoyed ships arrive safely. Dispatches mention an earthquake shock, clergy influence delaying rebuilding, and Venice envoy Mocenigo’s romance leading to his death. Other items note naval appointments, deaths, crimes, and diversions including public notices and stock prices.
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Philadelphia
Fane
Europe
Barbadoes
Sehich Place
Ireland
Martinico
Lisbon
England
Paris
M. Moceniga
Madam de Coulandres
Venice
Admiralty
Berwick
Portsmouth
Robert Hughes
Charles Hubert Herriot
Dumbatton Castle
Robert Turnbull
Duke of Bedford
Hale
Aids de Camp
Trinity Hall
Cambridge
Henry Ridlington
Werhersfieldy
Fife
Loddon
John Erfkiné
Gosfield
of Essex
Bondon
Notley
Norley
Howe
Kemp
Mathew Whiereupon
Kelgip
York
Ayley
Side Province
Kirk-Ella
Wil- Tiaenogs Datizhiter
Williamson
Merton
Jeutdale
Wilmot
News from across the seas on naval actions and fortifications
The mail reports frigates at Cronstadt and Revel disarming fleets while Britain plans to deploy six frigates in the Baltic. States guard ports, cannons placed at markets, and royal health noted. Paris sketches capitulation of St Philip’s Fort with 2200 garrisoned men moved to Gibraltar. Admiral Byng and Broderick’s squadrons repair damaged ships and tend the wounded as Marseille privateers prepare to sail.
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Folland
Dantzick
Ruffian
Cronstadt
Revel
Stockholm
Berlin
Hague
Fuluro
Paris
St. Philip’s Fort
Queen
Argyle, Sarugen
St. Charles
Marborough, &c
Admiral Broderick
Mr. Byng
Marseilles
Portmouth Letter Reports Warships and Captures at Spithead
An extracted Portmouth letter dated July 23 notes Dover and Guernsey transports arriving at Spithead aboard the Friendship John and Mary Mary and Constant Anne. The Lynn Man of War reports taking a 40 gun French ship and a transport, while British ships take a 50 gun French M war Rainbow and a 300 ton store ship to Halifax. An Dover extract dated July 22 describes a captured French Lieutenant in Boulogne, a deserting Serjeant, and recovered letters turned over to town authorities.
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Portmouth
Spithead
Dover
John
Mary
Constant Anne
Guernsey
Betty
London
John Carby
Elizabeth
Peter Raby
Clapham
Andrew Nall
Lynn
America
Cape Breton
Litchfield
Norwich
Hallifax
Portsmouth
Ottend
Lally
Boulogne
France
England
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Barnley
Evely
Salop
Scar
Macnamara
Rhoda Indiaman
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Kent Indiaman
Ellingham
Northumberland
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Peter’ Middleton
Stockeld
Ely
Thomas Haggerston
Haggerston
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Nesterday
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King Gould
Esg
Oxley
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Kingston
Cobham
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Mr. Barnes
Westminster
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Saunders Welch
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New Prison
Harp
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Norwood Gipsies
Newington
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Undia
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Association of
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Tueglay
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Oxford
Lord
Wenman
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Tho. Stapleton
Charles Bowles
Wherwood
Postscript