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Distressing Executive News from Westminster and Nearby Areas
A long page of notices reports multiple tragedies and unrest. A Reverend dies after smallpox at Westminster amid a jumble of public dangers and a Bays Water death follows Tyburn hangman’s fate. Drowning incidents in Marylebone Fields and Cambridge shop disaster spark further fear. Riots in Whitechapel and Tower Hamlets prompt military deployment and arrests. Irish harvest labour tensions, theft schemes, and public warnings against clever conmen fill the rest, alongside murders, legal appeals, and maritime export data from London to foreign ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster
Shrimpton
Thomas Reynolds
Tyburn
Bays- Water
Marybon Fields
Queen’s Head
Oxford Road
Chapman
Bridge-street
Cambridge
Dartford
Kent
Whitechapel
His Majesty
Whitehall
Tower Hamlets
Clerkenwell Bridewell
Banstead Downs
Aldwell
Aylesbury
John Jordan
Walton
Aylefoury
Rydge