Two Neapolitan Galliots Burn Five Victuallers at Gore River
Reports from Mantua and Vienna describe Neapolitan galliots attacking a convoy of about 25 victuallers protected by two men of war near the Gore River. The wind hindered the ships from entering, the galliots burned five vessels, one of the warships sank a galliot, and another returned to Naples escorting troops from Sicily. The item also notes political commentary on French influence over the Porte, Prussia’s stance, and Austro-Hungarian fortifications and plans at Presbourg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Sicily
Vienna
Tharp
Baron B——n
Porte
France
Dresden
Kevenhaltér
Presbourg
Hague
Prussia
Antwerp
House of Austria
Christendom
Europe
Germany
Berlin
Republick Eom
Sailed in Quest of Captain Murphy off the Irish coast
From Kinsale June 8 report that the Eagle and Nottingham pursued Captain Murphy of a 64 gun French ship. A boat escape from the Sunderland and Falcon with five men ended in casualties as three chests of arms were fired on shore. Dublin June 14 notes deaths of Robert Dillon MP and James Smith deputy-prothonotary in Usher's Quay and Hennedy's Lanes respectively.
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Ireland
Kinsale
Eagle
Nottingham
Murphy
Sunderland
Falcon
Dublin
Usher’s Quay
Robert Dillon
Baegarvan
Waterford
Quinsey
Hennedy's Lanes
James Smith
Two Fatal Incidents Reported in Ethall and North England
A Manchester area notice recalls the death of Edward Carter a North England cattle dealer who left a fortune to his two sons The report also details a brutal murder in Ethall near Stockport where Joshua Leah a miller apprentice killed another lad in a fit of frenzy attributed by some to religious agitation The tragedy occurred after Leah attacked the boy with a loom knife and severed major neck vessels leaving a witness and a confession of the act as madness and fanaticism lingered in the remarks
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Tork
Funerz
Edward Carter
Allathrope
England
Mr. Carter
Theakstone
Capt. Carter
Mediterranean
Manchester
Ethall
Stockport
Cheadle
Joshua Leah
Feiz
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The French siege craft and ensuing London notices
London items detail French siege finesse and Allied timetable debates, along with London appointments, court notices, and trials. Reports cite Lord Lovat's capture, Lord Chancellor to be an earl, and various clerks and messengers appointed. Also covered are ships at Rochelle, Brest, and a London ship engagement narrative with damage and pursuit.
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London
Marshal Bathiani
Aracre
Fort William
Lovat
Cambridge
John Ligonier
Hon. Order of the Bath
Robinson
the India Company
Palmer
Magett
Prince Edward
Holdaine
Benjar
China
Meff
Wood
Matthews
Portfield
d’Abbadie
Mocha
John Knapp
Buckingham
Middlesex
Duke of Marlborough
Woodstock
Ranger
Windsos
Earl Granville
Wingfor
St. Giles’s Cripplegate
Newgate
Guthrie
Serjeant’s Inn
Fleet-Street
Southwark
Gallions
John Mills
Welch
Red-Lion-Street
Spitalfields
Mr. Cazleer
Mills
Cazleer
Crispine Street
Katherine- Wheel Inn
William Ruffel
Samuel Prigg
Tyburn
Ruffel
Prigg
Brett
Rochelle
Brest
Plymouth
Admiral Martin
Rochfort
Weston
Newcastle
Gibraltar
Orkneys
Montferrat
S. E
Bristol
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The
London Evening-Post
Mantua
His Majesty
King’s Bench
Charles Powell
Miltown
Master Leslie
Robert Leslie
Glasslough
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