News from Europe and Ireland Mixed Dispatches
Sunday arrives a mail from Holland and Copenhagen with notices of Sweden Prussia and Denmark. Reports of battles sieges and troop movements in Pomerania Erfurt Gotha Magdeburg Halberstadt and Petersberg. Irish arrival of the Duke of Bedford as Lord-Lieutenant and ceremonial pomp in Dublin Castle. Maritime arrivals and ships listing with ports and origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Cork
Jersey
Crown
Cove
Gibraltar
Dublin-Castle
Duke of Bedford
Dublin
His Majesty’s Park
College Green
Richard Rigby
John Cradock
D. D
Thomas Salmon
L.L. D
James Gisborne
John Rutter
Bernard Hale
David Lindsay
Lord Newbattle
Henry St. Johns
Edward Stopford
Local Officials Sworn In and Crimes Reported Across Towns
Oxford officials sworn into office with Alderman Byng the Mayor elect and Sheriff nominees named. Norwich reports a castle breach case and a violent rape accusation. A highway robbery respite is granted, and a man executed for burglary. Northampton notes a steward’s fatal horse fall and a wheat flour theft riot near Towcester with military aid called in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country News
Oxford
Robinson
Cordwainer
Jagger
Chandier
Common Council
Smith
Mercer
Brown
Cutler
Strange
China and Glass Man
Canterbury
Byng
Stephen Pilcher
Norwich
St. Michael’s
William Lovick
Thomas Churchman
Elgis
Castle
J. Davis
Joseph Blomfield
Mrs. Pigg
Downham Market
Ann Reynolds
Leeds
Hackford
Northampton
Morris
Ambrose Ifred
Ecton
Wellingborough
Towcester
Port News Deal Ships Arrivals and Movements
Port News from Deal records arrivals of His Majesty’s ships Chesterfield Sea Horse Diana and others along with outbound and remaining vessels including the Wolf Flamborough’s Prize and East India Yacht. Multiple vessels sail to Maryland Portsmouth Dublin Jamaica and Plymouth with naval dispositions and prices noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port News
Deal
Wind
Chesterfield
Nancy
Virginia
Montagu
Blossom
Plymouth
Margaret
Bower
Lymington
Bacchus
Trump
Jamaica
Savage
Admiral Smith
Boreas
Flamborough
Wolf
Wind M. W
Sea-Horse
Diana
Wind N. W
Thetis
Edmonds
Maryland
Richmond
Westcombe
Portsmouth
Union
Edwards
Dublin
Seahorse
Capture of the Penthievre at Cadiz and British response
London letter recounts Captain Foster of the Antigallican privateer seizing the Penthievre, loitering in Cadiz to repair damages, and facing no French opposition as witnesses declare the capture legal. The prize is condemned by Gibraltar Vice Admiralty Court, while British and Spanish officials praise Foster. Insurers opposed to financing enemy property are criticized for aiding France during war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foster
Cadiz
Gibraltar
Burrington Goldsworthy
Vice Admiralty
Madrid
France
Don Navarro
Caraccas
Royal Yard
Britain
Claudius Cesar
Also Mentioned on This Page
Holland
Copenhagen
Olonel Campbell
London
Stockholm
Stetin
Pomerania
Anclam
Demmin
Petersberg
Prussia
Naumbourg
Winterfeld
Erfurth
Czekeli
Prince Henry
Rothenburgh
Eisenach
Gotha
Prince of Soubize
Berlin
Ferdinand of Brunswick
Magdeburgh
Halberstadt
Egsen
Hanover
London Gazette
Venice
Republick
Verona
Trieste
Milan
Lreviso
d’Ayen
Brunswick
Regenstein
Catherine
Foxepido
Dieppe
Anne
Maria
Jurene
Dantzick
Palm-Tree
Nelson
Norway
Hope
Christian
North
Copen
Orkneys
Prince Rupert
Fowler
Spurrell
Hudson’s Bay
Bristol
Matthew
Storm
Neptune
Franks
Molly
Letitia
Harrison
Peterburg
Liverpool
Eagle
Bagshaw
Tortola
Lancaster
Elizabeth
Heysham
Salisbury
Thompson
Gottenburg
Janet
Gardiner
Riga
Elon
Rigge
Narva
Kickham
Allenby
Barbadoes
Penzance
Rose
Williamson
Boston
Falmouth
Regina Maria Amelia
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