Ships Sailing From Deal In Outward Bound Fleet
Saturday July 3 ships from Deal sail in a convoy for America and the Atlantic. His Majesty’s ships Aurora Lynx sloop Wells cutter Echo French Henry Barr and Atlantick Greenley depart with transports and others bound for Carolina New York and Cowes. Dromedary Ranger Scourge Ranger sloops and Supply remain at port.
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NEW SG
Deal
Wind N. E
His
Aurora
Lynx
Wells
Echo
Carolina
Henry
Barr
Atlantick
Greenley
New York
Nathaniel
Ferry
Britannia
Abby
Cowes
His Majesty
Dromedary
Ranger
Scourge
Capture of Saint Domingo fleet and wider war news
Reports confirm Commodore Walringham captured a Saint Domingo fleet of about forty ships with nine escaping. Letters from Admiral Geary’s fleet and further dispatches describe Spanish pressure on Portugal, Manilla rumors, and British naval successes including prize captures. Local trials, university honors, and obituaries accompany the period war context.
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St. Domingo Mer
Walsingham
Robinson
Treasury
Mayne
Fox
Geary
Prudente
Fairnoath
St. Domingo
Trial of Dennis Reardon for Wife Murder
Details from the trial show Hannah Kelly and others testifying that the prisoner seized his wife on the stair and murdered her after a cry for mercy. Witnesses described blood, wounds, and a statement by the prisoner confessing, with a surgeon confirming the fatal injuries. The jury found Reardon guilty and he received immediate sentence.
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Dennis Reardon
Hannah Kelly
Beilale-house
Bevan
Dennis
Oen
Jesus
Thomas Field
Trials of the rioters at the Old Bailey yesterday
An account of the Old Bailey trials reports William Pateman accused of demolishing Charleton house and furniture in Coleman Street. John Carrier, eleven years Charleton’s servant, testified that Pateman and others approached him at White's Alley near his master’s home and demanded if his master was a Papist while making threats with a clenched fist.
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Jenny
Manley
Newcastle
Lisbon
Istanea
St. Magaret’s Hill
Old Bailey
Dennis Reardon
Alice
Elizabeth Breeze
Mary Shearman
William Pateman
Robert Charlton
Coleman-street
University of Edinburgh
America
Nicolas Romayne
de Paris Generatione
William Moore
de Dile
Wales
Trevor Jones
de Paralys
Ireland
Henry Blake
de Benerrhcide
Joseph Little
de Var
Robert Buck
Charles Wells
William St. Clair
Andrew Bain
James Moseley
Henry Laughter
Geo. Fletcher
Dubley
Derbyshire
Mavefon Ridgware
Staffordshire
Rob. Goodrick
Partridge
Dearershire
John March
Holvern
Nancy Noon
Great Berkhamstead
Herts
Whitehead
Queen’s College, Oxon
Walthamstow
Tho
Parr
Cheap Side
Strand
Mahal
Cutler
Sc. John-threet
Wm. Ummant Smith
Aly
Charleton
John Carrier
White's Alley
Prisoner Guilty as Leader in Charleton House Riot
Witnesses testified the prisoner led mob violence at Charleton’s house, piling goods for burning at Moorfields and boasting amid ruins. Charles Charleton’s employes and other residents described the riot and the mob’s power, while Sir Alderman Bull’s carriage passage ended the confrontation. Jurors quickly found the prisoner guilty. further rioters await trial Monday.
Morrell the condemned thief captured near Marlborough
On Wednesday last Morrell a condemned convict once at Newgate for stealing an altar plate from Count Hatleg's Chapel in Warwick Street was seen with a robber crew and later captured at Marlborough and placed in Marlborough Goal.
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Morrell
Newgate
Count Hatleg
Warwick-street
Lonly
Marlborough
Lace trade clash sparks speech in Lords over lace bill
In a Lords committee Earl Temple urged delaying the second reading of the lace bill defending the British lace industry. He warned a 10 percent duty could drive 140,000 to 400,000 workers into poverty and described the contraband trade and smuggling as a danger to the domestic woollen trade. He called witnesses, including Mr Pilgrim, to support claims of job loss and illicit competition from Flemish lace.
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Earl Temple
Cuaflom
Inis
Buckingham
Berford
Northampton
Hertford
Court of
Bralleis
Brussels
Court of Brutish
Inzy
Pilgrim
Lemui
Holland
Scotland
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Portugal
Madrid
Spain
Milford
Ortney
Fane
Shetland
Braffa
India
Lerwick
Manilla
Stromness
Nore
Garland
Hudson’s Bay
Edinburgh
Sandy Hook
West Indies
I’ssker
Peetirg
Europe
Admiral Graves
Greyhound
Jersey
Dunkirk
Alert
Liverpool
Chapman
Venus
L’oient
Fanny
Tucker
Newfoundland
Baywine
William Lemon
Charles James Fox
Rich
Fitzpatrick
George Savile
David Hartley
Henry Hartley
Frederick Bull
John Cavendish
Geo. Cavendish
John Burgyne
Teller S
Tho. Townshend
John Sawbridge
Edmund Burke
Joseph Mawbey
James Martin
Thomas Powys
Edward Altley
Conway
John Mauger
Nath. Polhill
Edward Ellice
Carrick
William Parry
Manchester
Coleman Street
Alderman Bull
Benjamin Short
Pateman
House of Lords
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