London News Roundup from Madrid to London
From the London Gazette a wide sweep of items across Madrid Turin York House and Reading includes new British Consul Har dy in Cadiz and death of Vice Consul Jefferson. Also notes on Sardinia royal family, elections for Kincardinshire, artillery for West Indies, and a centrifugal water engine trial. Local London events cover weaving protests, Guildhall orders, Epsom races, hay harvest at Hammersmith, and several obituaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Madrid
Cadiz
Hardy
Jeffon
Turin
Sardinia
Duchess of
Savoy
York House
M. Rouffel
Lieze
Duke of York
Duke of Gloucester
Leicester House
Stephen Cottrell
Timothy Benner
Norwich
The
White Swan
St. James’s
Richmond
St. James's
Guildhall
Kincardinshire
Scotland
James Carnegie
Bart
Royal Regiment of Artillery
West Indies
North America
Mr. Erskine
Woolwich
Wavy
Hatton-garden
Great Britain
Indies
Soderard
William Baily
Wadham College
Oxford
St. Paul’s
Brent Pelham
Forneaux Pelham
Seffordshire
Anguin
John Roberts
Lathaim
Hammersmith
Kensington
St. Andrew’s Church
Holborn
Dolley
William Dolley
Miss Sheen
King’s Road
Gray’s-inn
John Arthur
On Meanday
Woodford
Essex
Henry Hankey
Thomas Hankey
Kat
Edinburgh Review of Cornwallis Arrival and Regimental Drill
Edinburgh reports the Earl of Cornwallis arriving from England with two divisions of Gen. Guyfe's regiment reviewed by Lord George Beauclerks. The soldiers performed evolutions and firings with notable precision. The rest of the text contains a lament and a long poem fragment about loss and memory, including lines addressed to a late beloved Florine and relating reflections on love and mourning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edinburgh
Earl of Cornwallis
England
Guyfe
George Beauclerks
New Cross Turnpike General Meeting for Road Repairs
Trustees for repairing roads from the Stones End in Kent and Bermondsey Streets in Southwark to Dartford and other places in Kent and Surrey will meet on Saturday at the Bowling-Green House Black-Heath at ten in the forenoon. Trustees will be elected to replace those dead removed or who refused to act in the counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Cross
Stones- End
Kent
Bermondsey
Southwark
Dartford
Surrey
Boowling-Green House
Black-Heath
Court Notices and Auctions From 18th Century England
A long notice rail of a deserter from Capt. Cane’s company and a lieutenant general, with full description, together with a public sale of a house in Angel Street, London, and a large property sale in Alford and Trothorpe Lincoln, all dated April 6, 1765, and June 18 of the same year. The advertisements urge rewards for the deserter and list extensive details of dwellings and estates for sale or let including South Hill Easthamstead, Windsor, Reading, and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dudtard
Fieutie
Angel Street
Pleasire
Balforl
Mr. Groft
Tineadassdtle Street
London
Mr. Lovely
Attorne A. Law
Bedford
Anniversary Feast of Stepney Society at Deapers Hill
STEPNEY SOCIETY OFFICE announces an Anniversary Feast at Deapers Hill on Saturday next at three o clock, with invited Friends including Sir Thomas Stanhope Earl of Eamone Lord Digby and others. Boys employed by the Society’s Marine Trades will assemble at Spring Gardens Stepney Nine o clock, march to Stepney Church by eleven for a sermon by Rev Ralph Cawley and then return to the hall for afternoon exercises.
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Bradley
George
Alford
Lincoln
Trafthorpe
Ings
Sutran
Sugars
Goupland
Evinson
Gilby
Trofthorpe
Marblethorpe
Henry Rubus
Mr. Appleby
Barrow
Mr. Morris
Barcow
Humber
Stepney Society
Bishopsgate-Sree
Deapers Hill
Thomas Stanhope
Earl of Eamone
Lord Digby
George Bridges
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Westminster
Newgate
Virginia
Germany
Bristol
Guinea
Angola
St. Andre Des Arcs
Paris
Constantinople
Black Sea
Georgia
Aberdeen
Elizabeth Baskle- Field
Burfield
Sear
Hereford
Iil
Florine
Daphnnis
Thali
Cane
Noel
Richard Penn
Tevern
Royal Exchange
Hiworth
Wilts
Highworth
Chatham Barracks
Thomas Father
Parhamient
N. B
Mr. King
Winchester
Ane
Merluace
Suuta
Windor Porett
William Waras
South Hill
Easthamnstead
Oakingham
Bagshor
Snooning Hall
Duke’s Lodge
Reading
Windsor
Joudon
Brice Fisher
Craig’s Court
Charing-Cross
Cruttenuen
Surgeons Hall
Mer. Sudlery
St. Thomas
Vale
Jamaica
de Anggls
Gland
St. Anon
James Watson
Jamica
John Imeel
Gray
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