Mail from France and Cadiz News in July Dispatches
Extra from Cadiz reports brisk loading and a new Mexican viceroy departing Madrid for Cadiz to push sailing. Private registers, ships from Havana, losses at Vera Cruz, and ambiguities about Spains fleets unfold with competing claims of orders and counter orders. A Paris note records a 89 year old bombardier honored by the king for 52 years of service, awaiting pension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Flota
Miceroy
Mexico
Madrid
Havannas
Pizazzo
la Vera Cruz
Gran Leon
San Franco
Vera Cruz
Punta Gallega
Havanna
Old Spain
N. S. de Los Milagros
el Matantero
Christoval Montano
Azogues
Honduras
Campeachy
Guathemala
Spain
Yucatan
Amssterdam
Paris
Main
Dauphin
Cardinal de Fleury
Express Orders for Field Antillery and Reprisal Ships
Edinburgh reports orders to ready artillery in the Castle and grease garbages for quick deployment. West towns hear Letters of Marque, with several ships to be fitted for reprisal as retaliation. Recruits flock for sea and land service, surpassing wartime draft levels. On Friday, James Cunningham, Earl of Glencairn’s fourth brother, died at Finlayston.
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Edinburgh
Antillery
Guarda Costas
Finlayston
James Cunningham
Earl of
Whale Fisheries and Trade Woes Cross Atlantic News
Newcastle reports Dutch harvests depress whale fins and rape seed prices while Sunderland suffers embargo strains with impressments, ship activity, and labour desertions. Portsmouth squadron sails under Vernon, and Gloucester notes local thefts including cattle and horses tied to Wiltshire and Bath areas.
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Newcastle
Holland
Greenland
Sunderland
Haritontown Hill
William Warfon
John Shatford
Geneva
Sea Service
Portsmouth
Vernon
Spithead
St. Hellen’s
Burford
Brand
Lenox
Coral Main
Elizabeth
Faulkingham
Kent
Durell
Strafford
Trevor
Louisa
Waterhouse
Worcester
Perry Main
Norwich
Herbert
Pearl
Legg
Cook
Portland
Osbourne
Gloucester
Our Castle
William Lewis
Thomas Briton
John.Vypoe
Bristol
Tealing
Bath
Chippenham‘Common
Wiltshire
Marc
Kensington
Acton
London
London This Day News From An English Port and Court
London dispatches report General Wade moving west after Ireland relief forces. Col Tobias Cremer to resign governorship of Killmainham Royal Hospital. Duke of Somerset travels to Cambridgeshire. Sussex interests favor anti Conventioners as corporations gain new members. Ship St Font onboard near Venice seeks Letter of Marque amid possible war. Royal operations: Walpole arrives, Vernon sails, Admiralty assigns ships Colchester and Cumberland, and Admiral Haddock sails from Gibraltar. Cadiz letters warn ships to depart and seek convoy to New Spain. Recruiting officers tasked to enlist all able-bodied men.
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St. Fotn
Ponto de Goro
Venice
London
Kensington
Royal Palace
Robert Walpole
Norfolk
Vernon
Portsmouth
Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty
Colchester
Simmons
South Carolina
Cunberland
Boyne
Deptford
Prince Frederick
Haddock
Great Britain
Gibraltar
Lisbon
Augustus Fitzroy
Cadiz
Keene
Spain
New Spain
Madrid
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Scotland
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