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Maritime alarms and civic orders from Portsmouth to London
The Colleague of the Customs at Portsmouth will unload French prizes and store them for the Crown. Gibraltar and Greyhound ships reach Portsmouth with provisions for transports. Privy Council orders county officers to raise ransack search for seamen fit for service. Imposters and pressed sailors recount abuses near Whitby and Southwark, with Bristol reports of the Fox laden with cotton being pursued. Mentions distress signals from Kemp at Smyrna, a ship Neptune presumed wrecked, embargo lift for coastwise vessels, and local troop preparations. Also notes noble marriages, deaths, arrests, and public notices in London and Westminster with ads for patent medicines and financial listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Cap- the -Gibraltar
Lisbon
Hampton Court
Privy Council
England
Southwark
Fowes-Wharf
Whitby
Bristol
Fox
Kemp
Smyrna
Tenby
Cape Finisterre
London
Neptune
Martin
Winchester
Southampton
Dublin
Bamber Gascoyn
Grace
Linthall
Walton
Earl of Pembroke
Saunders
Betty Spencer
Duke of Marlborough
Fe’nnight
Hexham
Edward Blackett
Royal Navy
Northumberland
Matfen
Bart
Andrews
Micham
Surrey
Daniel Carne
Strand
City
Liberty
Westminster
Drury-Lane
House of Lords
St. James’s Park
George Evans
Rotherhithe
King Edward’s
High Holbourn
Thomas Wilkins
Hampstead