Armies and fleets in action echo European tensions
A hurried dispatch from St James's notes a French force of eleven battleships, four frigates and bomb vessels under Monsieur D Ache plus an allied Spanish army of 46,000 under Marbeuf preparing for an April operation claimed to target Algiers. British reports recount Union-era naval movements, captured vessels, and growing costs with pending military funding and garrison plans across North America.
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New-York
Virginia
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Thomson
Liverpool
Glasgow Packet
Porterfield
Boston
Smith
Three Sisters
New- York
Sandy Hook
West India Islands
Blue Mountain Valley
Dempster
London
Elizabeth Town
Molly
Collins
Turk’s Island
Norfolk
Sir Peter Parker
Londonderry
War Office
Chelsea
Gibraltar
Minorca
North America
Mars
Chatham
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Market Prices and Ship Arrivals in Deal and London
Prices for Rye Oats Pale Malt Brown Malt Beans and other goods listed with measurements and per last rates. Mentions Lent readings for bakeries and appointed Lent preachers at various London parishes. Ship news notes Greyhound cutter, Gale Jefferys, Edward Rider, Charming Peggy, St George Falconer and Polly Lear arrivals and bankrupts with multiple debtor actions and Guildhall notices. High water predictions for London Bridge listed for the next days.
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Trebeck
St. Bride’s
Sandiford
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White
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Fitzherbert
St. Botolph
Aldgate
Crowther
St. Katharine
Fly
St. Saviour’s
Southwark
Pinncck
Leshorn
Peggy
Tyley
Newfoundland
Macferrat
St George
Falconer
London
Antigua
Polly
Lear
Newcastle
Hampden
Lewis
Freeman
Dalling
New England
John Allen
Lambeth Marth
Surry
Staicmaker
Surender
John Nicholls
Ludgvan
Cornwall
Sam Jones
New Bond Street
Hanover
Square
Mercer and Haberdasher
John Cotterell
Fere-Arett
Grocer
Guildhall
William Irwin
Lampart
Chumberland
York’s Head
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Francis Supie
Bath
Bult Tavern
Corn-street
Bristle
James Rhodes
Liverpool
Golden Lion
Dalefreet
John Wood
Leeds
Yorkshire
Joseph Atkinson
Potter Newton
Abraham Lovett
Plymouth
Devonshire
Upholler
Prince George Inn
Champion Constable
Chertey
Thomas Stuplens
Pincestreet
St. Ann
Westminster
Taylor
House of Lords and Commons Debate on Bills and Army Grants
The session reports a second reading and committee of bills including duties on tallow lard and grease, leases of land in Cornwall, and a mutiny bill. In the Commons, prayers for land tax, militia pay, Greenwich Hospital, and Camberwell lighting were discussed. The army extraordinaries debate featured Barrington, Barre, and others with a large grant under consideration amid warnings of vast costs for North America conflict.
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Mouat
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de Grey
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Guildhall
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Black Friars Bridge
Wallace
Dunning
Mylne
Winchester
Richard Whatley
Churchill
Benjamin Depre
Lovell Stanhope
London
Stanhope
Geo. Collier
David Hatfield
Tho. Hawkins
Elizabeth Goffe
Ringwood
Johnn Grant
Cornwall
Richard Lee
Lord Vernon
Greenwich Hospital
Camberwell
Barre
Colonel Barre
Gilbert Elliot
Rigby
Governor Johnstone
Lord North
Fox
Ellis
Burke
George Germaine
Serjeant Adair
Lord Barrington
Seymour
Hartley
House of Commons
North America
America
She Defection o: Discord or The Whigs Poem
A fragmentary 18th century announcement printed by J Dixwell at 148 St Martin's Lane. The page references a poem titled She Defection or Discord and attributes it to a Whig era poet. Publication details are partial and obscured by damaged OCR.
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Whigs
J. Dixweil
St. Martin’s- Lane
Chrisy
Herefordshire Estates to be Sold by Auction at Ross
A historical auction notice offers two freehold farms in Herefordshire near Hereford and Ross. Lot 1 Treseck Farm over 250 acres with mills and woods. Lot 2 Blet Farm about 280 acres with arable pasture and woodland. Both include rights of Wye fishing and toll-free status, with timber and stock sale options.
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Ballingham
Little Dew Church
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Hereford
Rows
Trebenfield
Wye
England
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Tretfeck
Edward Williams
Fleek House
WeLy
Chanery-lane
London
Wane Taylor
Fumigating and kitchen ware by D Fontaine Holborn
A vintage advertisement offers fumigating machines and tobacco based blight preventers, plus durable tin kitchen utensils and camp fittings. It touts self sealing milk boilers, new style spoons and funnels, chimney parts, infaston pots for sore throats, and old metals accepted as exchange.
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D. Fontaine
Holborn
Navy
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Speech on Britain's American War Policy and State of Liberty
A House of Lords speaker warns against pushing the war with America, decrying constitutional overreach and ministerial ambition. He deplores foreign troops, fears erosion of liberty, questions finance and supply lines, and condemns brutal acts in Virginia while urging restraint and unity.
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