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Besieged surrender and press gangs in Westminster rounds
A historical notice reports Besieged on discretion to surrender on Monday. Men of War press gangs ferrying sailors upriver and parade coaches with bayonets through the city. Capt. Mitchel's Margaret is taken to Ivica. Moorish effects bound for Algiers. Royal orders include hunting horses to Hampton Court and embassies to Vienna.
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Margaret
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Hampton-Court
Vienna
Brook-street
Grosvenor-sgare
Joseph Kinski
Bohemia
Harry Beauclerk
Lovelace
Frederick Reynolds
Ely
Lincoln
Sally Jenkinson
Charles Jenkinson
Elm
Isle of Ely
Mr. Tongue
Duck’s Court
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William Nelson
Richmond
Surrey
Trinity
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King’s Bench
Westminster Hall
the Treasury
Butler
Alderman Keene
Lynn
Lonon
County of
Pointhill
Deceas
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St. Mary Overy’s Church-yard
Jamaica
Willian Benson
Harman
Friesy
St. James’s
Seddon
Groves
Reat
Hornlydown Lane
St. Margaret’s
Margaret Paten
Lockaugh
Paiily
Scotland
Broome
University of Oxford
Howard
Simon Mason
Aylesbury
Norwich
Herbert