Admiralty notices from the London Gazette July 1797
Reports from Capt Honeyman and other naval officers describe captures of French privateers Rambler taking Prospere off Dogger Bank and Triton seized near Cape Clear. Letters from Kingsmill and De Courcey outline cruise results, privateer captures, and prizes. Subsequent notices list local guildhall registrations and certificates due by Aug 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honeynan
Dunkirk
Mack
Kingsmill
Cork
Evan Nepean
Admiralty
Meram
Captain de Courcey
Bankrupts and Dividends Listed Across Several Cities
Bankruptcy notices for George Elin Goswell-street starch-maker surrendering Aug 17 25 Sept 5 at Guildhall. Morton the younger Pendleton Fuftian Manufacturer surrender Aug 7 8 Sept 5 at Spencer's Tavern Manchester. M Pratton the younger Gloucester tanner surrender Aug 8 9 Sept 5 at Bush Tavern Bristol. W Brevitt Drover Birmingham surrender Aug 8 9 Sept 5 at the Dock Stafford. Dividends announced for S Youdan Brooksmarket Aug 1 at Guildhall H Guest Shoreditch Aug 19 at Guildhall M Haynes Eagle-street Aug 29 at Guildhall T Benson and Benj Turton Culeman-freet Aug 19 at Guildhall R Phillips Carlotte Mews Aug 19 at Guildhall T Newman Exeter Change Aug 19 at Guildhall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Elin
Goswell-street
Guildhall
Dore
Berkeley-street
St. John’s-square
Clerkenwell
Morton, the Younger
Pendleton
Fuftian
Spencer’s Tavern
Manchester
Mefirs
Milne
Serjeant
M. Pratton
The
Carlotte Mews
T. Newman
Exeter Change
French Dispatches From Secretaries Office and Global Speculation
Read of four Frenchmen delivering a letter to Lord Grenville, and talk of Toulon fleet slipping past the Gut of Gibraltar. Reports touch on Lord Mornington’s Madras appointment, Dumourier’s Hamburg editorship, Danish neutrality, and Jacobin Club growth. Also notes on Thelluffon will, wealth, and unusual bequest. naval actions, militia movements, Irish elections, and a fatal accident in Oxford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of State
Paris
Lord Grenville
Sir Sidney Smith
Toulon
Gibraltar
Atlantic
Earl St. Vincent
Cape of Good Hope
Earl of Mornington
Madras
Dumourier
Hamburgh
Franklin
Ife
Philatelphia
Johnson
Rome
Europe
Tor Tilt
Police
Denmark
Bank of Copenhagen
France
Malta
England
Canterbury Hops Make Fine Growth Despite Vermin
Canterbury reports hot weather improving hop plantations with abundant bines and good bloom though some vermin persist. Farnham Worcester and Sussex show good ground conditions. Maidstone and Middle Kent fair to better than weeks ago. Duty at 1900001 pounds and up. Weather has reshaped the countryside with abundant crops of grain and generally favorable yields for wheat barley and oats. Beans on strong lands are bowing to moisture, while overall crop prospects brighten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farnham
Worcester
Sussex
Maidstone
Middle Kent
Baker convicted of robbery at Hertford Assizes
At Hertford Assizes yesterday Baker was found guilty of robbing Mr Sullivan in his home where both lived as servants. Frances Baker was acquitted. Baker was condemned to death on the Crown side verdicts as the Chelmsford Affizes begin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galastream
Eave Windsor
Guards
Winchester
Weymouth
Sface Corry
Robert Ross
Newry
Ireland
Richard Power
Clashmore
J. Begesford
Waterford
Tommentes
Limerick
Little Orso
South of Ireland
Matthew
Cal. Bagwell
Tipperary
O’callaghan
Lford Lismore
Moore
Moor’s Kort
Dublin
Edinburgh
Turin
Montague
Portsmouth
Hastings
That
Geneva
Bexnill
Prince Tubb
Oxford
Ann, Pryor
Highbridge
Folly Bridge
Falcon
Gravesend
Baker
Frances Baker
Sullivan
Chelmsford
Remarkable relief from the Goat illness via Spitsbury's Drops
Henry Hamilton reports long battle with the goat under English, Irish, Scottish, Canadian, Bermudian, and Dominica conditions. After severe attacks and near death, hot foot cataplasms helped briefly, then Spitsbury's Drops cured symptoms including salivary phlegm, chalky swellings, and night restlessness. He praises continued benefit after traveling to a healthier climate and recommends the medicine sold at Soho Square Dispensary and local vendors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Pubes
Antigua
Maram
England
Ireland
Scotland
Canada
Bermuda
Dominica
Wardrobe
Wilkinson
Marriages Reported Across England and Ireland
A series of 19th century marriage notices from St Luke's Chelsea St Margarets Ipswich St Michael's Cornhill Sunninghill Wells Buccleugh Place Edinburgh and Woodside Paisley. Names include Richard North Phil lips Cornwellis Fonnoetreau Montgomery Barclay Ort with spouses from Pimlico Surrey Christ Church Ipswich and other locales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Luke's
Chelsea
Richard North
Duke of York
Phillips
George Shakespeare
Pimlico
Middlesex
Walton
Surrey
St. Margarets Church
Ipswich
Charles, Cornwellis
Frederick Cornwellis
Font
Fonnereau
William Fonnoetreau
Christ ‘Church
Lat
St. Michael’s Church
Cornhil
Thomas Lewis
Freeman's Court
Isabella Robinson
Great Miffenden
Bucks
Sunninghill Wells
Berkshire
Hush Montgomery
Castle Hume
Fermanagh
Ireland
Buccleggh Place
Edinburgh
George Barclay
Woodside
Paisley
Robert Ort
Also Mentioned on This Page
London Gazette
Admiralty-Offee
Jam
Robert Honeyman
Sir Edward P. J. Bart
Falmouth
Bray
Hind Revenue
Epward Pellew
Sea
Cape Siear
Ander
Nantz
M. de Courcey
Kingmill
Richard Johns
Dolphin Revenue Cutter
Maxamon
Thomas Franche
de Vaiffent
Brest
Maree
John Acaire
John Burlase Warren
Richard Jouns
C. Burrell
Leadenhall-street
RiPrice
Mile End Old Towny
Guild+ hall
J B.black
Bishopsgate-street
Laceman
J .Oo
Jona. Nath
Bristol
Hooper
R. Joyneur
Iron Founder
King’s Head
Darlington
W. Robinson
Winteringham
Lincolnshire
Bplf and Son Inn
Kingson-upon- Hull
J. Williamson
Bridgnorth
Salop
J. West
Threadneedle-street
Money-Scrivener
E. Ward
Crookholme
Cumberland
M. Armtagey
Newport
Yorkshire
T. Griffin
Whitecross-street
Carman
J. Heald
Maker
R. Daniels
Nottingham
Hatter
Hotel de Montmorency
National Convention
Guinguene
Thelluffon
Jean, Bunion
Quebec
London
Bayonne
Canterbury
Hertford
London Bridge
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