London Bids to banish foreign cooks and fashion imports
A London column notes a General Officer hiring a famed French cook with luxurious terms, and argues Parliament should curb imports of foreign goods to protect domestic industry. It covers society weddings and deaths, naval and court appointments, and a legal scene on excise and retail licensing with multiple named individuals and places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Denmark
Sidney Beauclerck
Duke of St
Hanwworth Park
Middlesex
New Windsor
Roberts
Princess-street
Piccadilly
Elizabeth Mercer
Catalan Bark Enters Naples Port Amid Troop Embargo
Leghorn reports the Catalan bark bound for Naples entered the port on the 26th after being driven by contrary winds. The master says many troops near Barcelona awaited embarkation aboard ships hired for that purpose. Spaniards continued embargoing foreign ships. an English ship from Newfoundland arrived at Naples the 24th, leaving Barcelona the 21st, confirming prior accounts of ships hired as troop transports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hans Sloan
The
Royal Society
Job
Oglethorp
England
Excise
Robert Dale
Blackmoor-street
Clare-Marher
Rudd
Southwark
Wolseley
University of Rheims
Butler
Hatton-Gardes
Covent-Garden
Taylor
Wheeler
Extifemai
Seiz
Ana
Naples
Barcelona
New- Foundland
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London Evening-Post
London
Worn
Roodlane
Lovet
Admiral Cavendish
Duke of Devonshire
Edwa Harvey
Combe
Surrey
Essex
Hemptted
Harveys of Combe
Chigwell
Harvey
St. Michael’s Crooked Land
Spain
Joseph Patinho
Otobe
Charles Keene
Lynn
John Dealray
Sipingbork
York
Gibbon
Bridewell
Allen
St. ‘Anine’s
Aldersgate
St. Dunstan’s
Grant
Board of Admiralty
Page
John Norris
Purfer
Grafton
Woolwich-yard
Baffet
Deceas
Hide
Rochester
Eltham
Augustus Fitzroy
Duke of Grafton
West Indies
Greenwich
Saddlers Company
Prince of Wales
Richardson
Cheapside
Leghorn
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