Fragmented Naval News From Oporto To Jamaica
Dispatches found on a prize ship from Oporto led to notes from Admiral Haddock's squadron and Sir Charles Wager. Reports detail actions near Scilly and Palinuwth, a new privateer ashore, ship cloathing for troops near Colchester, and local governance changes in Preston. News from Lewes, Norwich, Bury, and Kingston Affizes cover trials, sentences, and transports. Letters from Antigua, Jamaica, and Virginia describe bread shortages, weather, and Captain Warren’s destruction of a Cuban privateer with 130 men. a captured privateer’s papers were sent to the Duke of Newcastle.
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Haddock
Gibraltar
Page
Francis
Oporto
Charles Wager
Scilly
Colchester
Preston
Lawrence Rawstorne
John Revald
Deceas
John Waithman
King George
Court of Common-Pleas
Court of Exchequer
Westminster Hall
Gordon
James Glenn
Ely
South Carolina
Lewes
Aiflabie
Long-Ashton
Johin Smith
Kent-street
Wooney
Jaft
Arundel-Street
Miss Borret
Prothonoter Borret
Lord Trevor
Newnam
Salters Hall
Hickman
Houndsditch
Avery
Southwark
Martin
8Wallow Street
India Dock
Deptford
Hail
Fox-Court
Gray’s-Inn- Lane
Rosamond’s Pond
Bury
Richard Baker
Henry Crack
Baker
Ipswich
Jamaica
Warren
St. Jago de Cuba
Valladon
Duke of Newcastle
Market Prices for South Sea Securities and Henry Banks
Yesterday quotations show South Sea Stork at 3to 2 qrs and 1lal, South Sea Annuities at 111 7 8 to 112, New South Sea Holders 110, Bank 141 1 qr, Bank Circulation India 156 to 155 1 half, Three per Cent Annuities 1half, Million Bank 114, Royal Exchange Assurance London, African 10 English Copper 31, India Bonds 41, Five per Cent sale price, Emperor’s loan not listed, Three 1/2 per Cent Exchequer Orders 13 yrs prem, Three per Cent ditto 4 per Cent diff.
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Bank
India
Royal Exchange
Leicester Races Purse Events at Leicester Abby Meadow
Racing events set for Wednesday and Thursday next with Purse options of fifty and forty nine guineas. Five year old mares or geldings never winning a royal stake compete four mile heats, with entrance fees two guineas and ten shillings. Showings and purses announced with additional cocking and assemblies nightly at the Town Hall.
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Gloucester
Meads
Guitea
Doulle
de Secund-Bett Herfe
Herfe
Stair
C. Co
Petronto
N.B
Leicester
Abby Meadow
Bistrante
Lost gentleman Beft urged to answer in August
A notice informally addresses Mr Beft formerly of Excite may ac h Fenny Stanton in Huntingdon. It claims he is thought dead but may have fled. It asks him to send word of his residence by August to William Golding at Horton Northaimpton or Matthew Hutchinson at Scuttiow Huntingdon to hear of advantage.
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Antigua
Leeward
Rhode Ilarid
Silas Cook
Maitér
Jol Waite
Bank of England
East India
John Waite
Beft
Fenny Stanton
Huntingdon
William Golding
Earl OF Halhixhs
Horton
Northaimpton
Matthew Hutchinson
Earl of Sandwich
Scuttiow
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George Warren
Robert Cullum
Norwich
William Sizer
James Moon
William Black
Shumpshaw
Crown Bar
Castle-Hill
Surrey
Kingston
Wiliam Baker
William Ruffel
Sarah Scott
John Stratford
William Lemon
Alice Twelves
Dover
Calais
Philadelphia
Suine Veuleis