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London News in Brief Echoes Courthouse and Sea War Tales
Reports on royal affairs and society, with Lord Forbes arriving from Petersbourg, a Czarian diamond set gift, and delays to the Portland marriage. Local crime notes include a murder case in Southwark, highway robbery near Saffron Walden, and a Coroner’s Inquest. Maritime updates describe nav al actions in the Downs, seizures at Dover, and ships burning rovers near Cape Cantin. Also listed are electoral turnpike concerns, appointments, stock prices, and upcoming race purses at Oswestry with entry rules and a cock match. The mix reflects court, commerce, crime, and sport in a single day’s digest.
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Tleman
Lord Forbes
Russia
Petersbourg
Hague
Emilia
Bath
Kensing
Jamaica
Trinity House
Deptford Strand
Aldgate
John Jeffe
Charles Peele
Kent
Dartford
Gravesend
John Shaw
Eltham
Leslie
Earl of Rothes
Dyfart
Kirkaldie
Whittock
Sculthorp
Charing-Cross
Cross-Keys
St. Martin’s Lane
Hardwick
Serjeant’s Inn
Francfort
Oder
Berwick
Garrine
Dover
Earl of Salisbury
Calais
Isle of Man
Downs
Anne
George Wigg
Trappani
Streights
Williamsburg
Crane
Wigg
Gibraltar
Saffia
Santa Cruz
Taylor
Exon
Dartmouth
Star- Cross
Perkins
Gardiner
Blackman-street
Southwark
Thomas Ketchingman
Fry
Saffron-Waldron
Essex
London
Epping Forest
Samuel Walker
Joseph Hague
Thomas Taverner
Cotton
Joseph Hart
William Ray
Eagle-street
Holbourn
Roger Bow
Thomas Field
Hungerford Market
Mr. North
His Majesty’s Mint
Tower
Mary Haycock
Anne Haycock
Newgate
Hammersmith
Compton
Lyell
China