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French Privateer Captures Bristol Trader Amid Quiet Ravage
An unreported French privateer from St Malo mounting twelve four pounders and about sixty men surprised Bristol traders, capturing one vessel valued at five to six thousand pounds and ransom. two collier ships were freed, and a third, the Antigua Packer, carried to a French port. The privateer then lingered with the enemy fleet, while other ships sought her. Other notes report a French Bark with saltpetre, the Roast Beef armed ship bringing the Fox privateer from Dunkirk, and the Nancy of Pool repelling two privateers after a running battle. Royals, arrests, and social concerns fill the rest of the periodical with notices of deaths, theft, kidnapping plots, and parliamentary corruption debates in London.
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Bristol Praders
St. Malo
Bristol
Rice
Antigua
Falmouth
Plymouth
Jersey
Dunkirk
Lizard
Nancy
Pool
Courtin
Bilboa
South Carolina
St. Sebastian’s
Commodore Bay
Firth of Forth
Yarmouth Road
Knights of the Garter
Windsor
Irom
Honourable
House of Commons
Ferdinando Ladbrooke
Spanish Hall
Blackwell Hall
Beadle
Worshipful Company of Tallow-Chandlers
Governor’s of Christ’s Hospital
Brooks
Axe-Yard
Westminster
Ancle
Mr. Brown
Penny-Post Office
Mare Ftreet
Hackhey
Hammerton
Clerkenwell