Arrivals and Movements Of Royal Ships At Dover Downs
The dispatch notes the Duke Packet near Fowey and various royal and outward bound ships in the Downs and at Deal. Vessels include Royal Sovereign Isis Roebuck Vestal Glasgow Aldborough Grenada Bomb Beaver Pelican Vesuvius and armed ships Adventure William and Anne East India Yacht and several merchant ships bound for Jamaica Barbadoes Montferrat Cork Plymouth and Lisbon with wind shifts from southwest to northwest.
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Duke Packet
Goddridge
Anna
Fowey
Norfolk
The
Humber
Downs
Royal Sovereign
Admiral Smith
Falmouth
Isis
Dover
Roebuck
Verms
Glasgow
Aldborough
Grenada
Beaver
Keliian
Vesuvius
Adventure
William and Anne
N. W
His Majesty
Ailen
Lusbon
Dunn
Dublin
Augustus Cesar
Burnell
Jamaica
Taxes and the Burden of a Free State
A writer argues Parliament must raise funds for war with France and redress national grievances. Taxes should be fair and proportional, focusing on luxuries and non essentials, with light home taxation and heavy export duties. He urges an impartial survey of landed estates to equalize the tax and protect public credit, urging justice for supporters of the Hanover succession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover
France
Britannicus The Contrast by a Young Lady
An 18th century letter and dispatches mix classical verse with news from Portsmouth and St Helen's. Items cover naval movements, prize captures, court appointments, births and deaths, and public notices. Notables include Admiral Knowles, Colchester, and the Prize captures by the New York Privateer.
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Cafar
Britain
Isle
Gaul
Ceefar
Portsmouth
Portsmouth Bass
Higgs
St. Helen’s
Colchester
Obrian
Nowles
Prince George
Richard Musgrave
Widhays
Providence
Unstrutz
Henry
Seydlinz
Meinicke
Ourtside
Magdebourg
Berlin
Scetia
Marshal Keith
Lam
Scorfman
Dury
Legere
Debonnaire
Porto Prince
Hispaniola
Bourdeaux
Hetter
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Nancy
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St. Kiv’s
Ashby
St. Johns College, Cambridge
George Athby
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Thorpe
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Ducefe
Lincoln
Reeves
Academy
Bishopsgate-Street
Bradwin
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Thomas Samwell
Bart
Upton
Chiswick
James Thornhill
Middlesex
Cole
Edward Cole
Enstone
Oxfordshire
Henry John Parker
Warwickshire
Richmond
Surrey
Robert Sheppard
Castle Tavern
Grosvenor Street
Lady Feversham
Judge Eyres
Willliam
Holland
Prince of Orange
the Corn Exchange
Hank
India
Sea Sreex
Giro
Ditta
reSul
Litto Initia Anneartes
India Ponds
Prem
Dirco Glover
Yorkshire
Frederick
Prussia
Germany
W. H Dilworth
G. Wight
James Rivington and Fletcher
Pater-notter Row
Lord Anson
Marshal Saxe
Konli Kan
Great Duke of Marlborough
Peter the Great
Czar of
Muscovy
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