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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 15, 1797
Page
3
Fragmentary report notes French naval actions in the West Indies harming American shipping. It cites vast losses across ports, paralysis of commerce, and insurance premiums rising to 25 percent as trade strains under the pressure of naval power and conflict.
The Stag cutter of 14 guns under Lieutenant J Boxer arriving from a cruise captured a large lugger belonging to Guernsey after a four hour chase. The Channel fleet under Lord Bridport remains off Ramhead this morning. Beers and waters are loaded for the fleet and the ships sail westward with a fresh northwest breeze.
Plymouth-Dock reports describe the Channel fleet near Maker Towers awaiting Majesty's ship Minotaur from Cadland Bay then sailing down the Channel. An Irish-flagged boat delivered a message noting redress for complaints during their time. A naval order directs all gunboats rigged as schooners to be converted to brigs. The Favourite Nanny tender from Dublin failed again last night to muster fit men for Portsmouth.
In Weymouth February 4, the Acimene frigate and the Redwader con voy een failed yesterday, now on windward position after the vessel turned to the west.
Richard Parker, famed among fleet mutineers, rose from modest beginnings in Exeter to acting lieutenant roles in the Navy near the end of the American War. He later squandered his fortune, died in debt, and was jailed in Edinburgh. He joined Perthshire volunteers, earned a bounty, and sailed from the Nore aboard the Sandwich and later the Bulldog. He clashed with officers, boasted of naval Oliver Cromwell fame, and upon news of capture his Scottish wife and children arrived too late to witness his downfall.
The jury awarded the plaintiff nine hundred pounds in a criminal conversation suit against Sir Thomas Turton, a man of wealth, alleging his affair with Mrs Dunnage. Testimony from Sarah Sefton and Lucy Rogers detailed meetings at Gray’s Inn Gardens and the Carolina Coffee House, with letters and secret visits described. Lord Kenyon lamented the damage to the husband and family while noting the court must uphold virtue and deter crime.
In a 7th Geo. IE action by Kentish’s assignees against the defendant, Mr Esskine notes the 16th Geo. II act to curb stock-jobbing. He explains funds fluctuate with state credit and national events, not just State changes, and that stock movements often stem from traders seeking profits on the exchange.
Sir William Rowley’s fox hounds near Lenham Suffolk are forming a subscription pack under Johny the present Huntsman. Chaumont in the Higher Marine sees a young girl buried after four veins opened. her brother in law the surgeon is suspected of murder. At Toulouse Marion 18 poisoned the wife of Joseph Merli, languishing three days, and both she and Merli are in the Upper Garonne prison.
A historic advertisement extols Spilsbury's Anfiscorbutic Drops as a universal cure for scurvy gout rheumatism ulcers and other blood and digestion related disorders. It claims decades of proven cures worldwide and urges purchase at the Dupellary in Soho Square and through general vendors with postpay terms.
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