Ships and arrivals in Downs and Lisbon mail news
maritime notices list arrivals and departures including the Dolphin Esther Venus and Mercury at the Downs, the Dianay Cobb and others at Lisbon, with US and European dispatches from Warsaw and Cork. Reports cover battles, fortifications, prize captures, and proclamations, plus court and ship news from Edinburgh and London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Jane
S. Ws
Dolphin
Monk
Nice
Esther
Leghorn
Richard
Wills
Poole
King George
Kelly
New York
Downs
Bristel
St. Augustine
Ashey
Riches
Ditto
Nancy
Woodburn
Oporo
Lancaster
Ordnance Repairs At Tilbury Fort And London Bridge
Reports list orders from the Ordnance Board to repair Tilbury Fort and refresh all guns mounted on the works. A brigantine captures an American vessel from New York. A daring Braysted robbery ends with five horsemen active and two women detained. The Neapolitan ambassador is robbed in Grosvenor Square. Two men involved in a Bishopsgate warehouse theft are re-examined and remanded to Newgate. A petition from St Marylebone backs Dr Dodd. Sir John Fielding and Bow Street magistrates seize counterfeit plates used to print notes. Preston Moor Races include a £50 best of three four mile heats. Died: Mrs Grey, and others named in brief notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ordnance Board
Tilbury Fort
Gravesend
Solebay
Ledger
New York
London-bridge
Braysted
Seven Oaks
Kent
Mr. Aighurst
Aighurst
J. Fielding
Mary Holt
Holt
Sir J. Fielding
Brookstreet
South Audley Street
Grosvenor Square
Two Swans Inn
Bishopsgate-street
Newgate
Poultry Compter
St. Mary-le-bone
Dodd
Sir John Fielding
Sampson Wright
Addington
Bow-street
Preston Moor
James Lowther
G.h. Pleader
C. Howard
Greystock
Clayton
Miss Nightingale
Sir Frank Standish
Mrs. Grey
John Grey
Excise Office
Clerkenwell
William Scrufe
Western Road
General Post Office
Sidey
Bayswater
Masquerade at Cornelys Ends Rural Garden Ball
The celebrated Mrs. Cornelys closed her sessions of festivity with a countryside masque. On Thursday night the crowd entered through open doors at eleven, ascending the great staircase to a ball-room lit and shaded with trees and flowers, evoking Arcadia in Soho.
Masquerade Night Brims With Food and Revelry in Town
A bustling masquerade drew crowds as tickets cost one guinea and a half. Guests enjoyed tea, bread and lemonade, and a lavish supper with Port, wine, perry, and cyder. Rooms filled with dancing and flirtations, some couples kissing by lamps, while excess led to a late disturbance around five or six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gc. &c
Bacchus
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Shine
Suh
IP News
France
Warsaw
Baristhenes
Poland
Moldavia
Waicher
Kaminieck
Trelan
Corke
Faney
Simon ‘Toomy
Cooper
Queen’s Rangers
America
Cc Otlan
Edinburgh
Court of Exchequer
Ruddiman
London
Admiralty Office
Sawyer
Boyne
Georgej Town
South Carolina
Plymouth
Lifton
Pon
Peter
Lisbon
Portugal
South America
Lord Germaine
General Howe
Glasgow
Janet
Patrick Sinclair
Trenton
Holland
Mr. Tryon
Lord Cornwallis
General Grant
Duke of Rutland
St. Kitt’s
Swansey
Granduvill
Robert Boreland
Ireland
Jamaica
Calhoun
Obrian
London Ound
St. Christopher’s
Maderra
Davis
Grea Marybone-ttreet
Welbeck-freet
Cavendish Square
Pine
Thomas Baker
Henry Baker
William Baker
Joseph Baker
Richard Baker
Great Kimble
Weston Turville
County of Bucks
Job Allen
John Topping
Croke
A.B
Meif. Green and Co
Newgate-street
Bristol Inn
Old Town
Jay
John Keenor
N. B
Somerset
Cornwall
Coward
George-Inn
Hechester
Kingsdon
Somersetshire
Kingston
Sommerton
South Petherton
Poundstock
Lacy
Kiernan
Gray’s-Inn
Angier
Shaftesbury
James Willy
S Uth- Petherton
David Fontaine
Middle- Row
Holborn
Conran
John Wesley
Rowland Hill
T. Vallance
Ol Lal
G. Keith
Matthews
the Strand
Christ
Self
Samuel Eaton
Shrewsbury
J. Eddowes
Peter Brefter
Chester
Creswell
Nottinghams
Mendrs
Pearton
Rollason
Birmingham
T. Longemar
Town
Coventy
Commissioners of Longitude
South Pole
His Majesty
William Wales
William Bayley
J. Nourse
Strand
Mount
Page
Lower-Hill
Piceras
John Noorthouck
W Strahan
T. Cadell
Atether
Great Britain
North
Americas
Britain
New England
Europe
Sotland
Asia
Turkey
Sheersy
Elzevir and Correat
W. Pine
Bristol
G. Robinson
Paternofter-row
J. Walter
Charing-Groffig
Gre
Girard
Parkinson
Ray
Baubine
William Withering
M.D
G. Rob
Paternofterrew
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