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Accidental Gun Fire and London Notices in a Single Page
A gun fired accidentally injuring a woman is reported alongside a dense London page of news. The piece details a parish sermon at St Katherine Cree, police and court actions against pickpockets, arrests for robberies, admiralty judgments, and international dispatches from Warsaw, Vienna, Madrid, and The Hague referencing Spain, Holland, and Turkey. Officers, merchants, and various officials are named amid ship, war, and treaty concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
St. Katherine Cree
John Giger
London
Lyon
His Majesty
Justices of the Peace
Westminster
Edward Parker
His Majesty’s Excise
St. James’s Fark
Compter
William Norman
Joan Blacket
Co. de Veil
M. Vanteels
Portugal
Cheapside
Col. de Veil
Blacket
Henry Penrice
High Court of Admiralty
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
James Buchanan
Old Bailey
Michael Smith
Canton River
East Indies
Lacey
Maesty
Elfineur
Dantzick
Koningsburg
Poland
Fogo
Newfoundland
America
Philip Bass
Mary
States General
Madrid
Guarda Costas
Spain
Marquess de St. Gilles
West-Indies
Guarda
Guarda Costas, They Disarm’d One of Them Upon the Coasts of St. Domingo
Curaccao
M. Vander Meer
Great Britain
Vienna
Bavaria
Marquess de la Quadra
Keene
M. de la Quadra