Thefts and alerts echo through London streets and seas
An apothecary in Lemon-street Goodman's Fields was robbed of linen while a garden gate was forced and a canvas apron with silk scraps pointed to a silk thrower. A highwayman failed against a better horse on Hertford Road. News of ships, exports, mutinies in Corsica, Genoa, Poland quarantine plans, and South Sea financials fill a bustling dispatch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Hinde
Lemon-street
Goodman’s Fields
Waib
Turpin
Hertford Road
Lewes
Sussex
South-Sea Company
Normanton
Rigby
Batavia
Walpole
Boddam
Princess of Wales
Harwood
Mead
England
China
Downs
Spain
Corsica
Bastia
Senate of
Genoa
Baron Newhoff
Amisterdam
Utrecht
Hague
Poland
Dantzick
Denmark
Hounslow Races At Hounslow Heath A June Meeting
The notice outlines a four day racing program from June 15 to 18 at Hounslow Heath with purses and weights for various classes including ponies and hunters. Entrants must register at the Red Lion Inn, New Brentford, by June 8. Cockfighting at the Three Pigeons in New Brentford is scheduled daily, with a 4 shilling entry and a small stake. liquor sales require a five shilling subscription to the Town Plate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hounslow
Hounslow Heath
Red-lion Inn
New Brentford
New Brencford
Salisbury
Oxford Arms
George
Sarum
Lyons
Robert Redeling
Courfe
Salisbury and Cobham Races Advertised For June Trials
Announcements detail racing purses and conditions at Salisbury on June 7 8 and 9 with heats for horses mares and geldings. Cobham Surrey hosts purses on June 7 8 9 10 and 4th 16th emphasizing entry rules weights and deadlines. Also notes oxford cock-fighting match and local meetings plus debt settlements and landowners meeting in Surrey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cobham
County
Surrey
Scone
Galloways
Acany
Smith
Oxford
London
Berkshire
Oxfordshire
Rach
Cross
Flower-de-Luce
Thomas Moore
Sc. Marstin’s Lane
St. Martin In the Fields
Middlesex
Geceas
John Tovey
Lancaster- Court
Strand
Tovey
Publication of a Letter on Reducing National Debt and Taxes
A notice announces tomorrow the publication in The Dark Post of a letter to sit on the paper, outlining reasons for the British representatives to exploit the current interest rate to lessen the national debt and reduce burdensome taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
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Waters
Britford
Red Bridge
White-Parish
Buthel
Ludlow
Pwns
Prem
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
Ditto
Mine Adventure
MS Guldeford
Suffix
Woolf-Pack
Tenterdag
Ree Brooke
Ludgate- Hill
Thomas Hambrough
Deceas
Bond-Stables
Festers Lane
Simmond’s Inn
Chancery-Lane
Richard Broake
Benfamien Payne
Chisaswan
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