Letter from the Grand Signor and Turko-Patronage in Dublin
A miscellany of exalted titles from the Grand Signor to Effi the Basha of Babylon, lauding wisdom and valor, followed by a grisly execution at Galway and obituaries of notable Dublin figures. Reports include slave ships' voyages via Old Calabar, shipboard mutinies, and Barbadian traffic, plus London election chatter and local marriages and deaths.
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Basha
Babylon
Arabia
Persia
Greece
Vittorious
Constantinople
Two Seas
Mecca
Medina
London
Harwich
Yarmouth
St. James’s
Duke of Richmond
Essex
Southwark
Hague
Appointment of Dean of Clonmacnoise and a Galway murder trial
The Rev. Dr. Owens is named Dean of Clonmacnoise in place of Dean Dopping. In Tuam trial scenes, John Bodkin Fitz Oliver, Dominick Bodkin, and John Hogan confess to murder and face execution by hanging and gibbet. Bodkin of Carrowbeg denies involvement, awaiting next assizes in Galway.
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Ireland
Dublin
Owens
St. Michael’s
Clonmacnoise
Dean Dopping
Offory
John Bodkin Fitz Oliver
Lynch
Dominick Bodkin
John Hogan
Justice Rose
Tuam
John Bodkin
Carrowbeg
Galway
Bodkin Fitz Oiver
Dominick
Bodkin
Transports ready to fail in Grenock harbor
The dispatch from Grenock notes transports ready to fail yet complain of disadvantages from a ship sinking in harbor mouth. It mentions a fatal storm drowning many fishing boats and men, and reports a planned religious Thanksgiving Thursday in the city for a bountiful crop.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Grenock
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The
London Evening
France
James Flack
Court of Exchequer
David Nixon
John Young
Great Britain
John Eccles
Callwell
Althe
Robert Marshall
His Majesty
Serjeants At Arms
Molly Woolfy
Barclay
Dodd
Liverpool
Old Calabar
Barbadoes
Spain
Cambridge
Lloyd
Lincolnshire
Sally Gascoigne
Gascoigne
Blackhaple Street
Spital- Fields
Pool
Gorge Heapifig
Ely
Otto
Winchester
Hampshire
de Coning
Stratford-Green
Upfold
Hatton- Garden
Shrewsbury
Holland
Maestricht
Don Blais
Carthagena
Lestock
Deptford Yard
Europe
Haldane
Horse-Guards
Earl of Effingham
Gnife
Regiment of Foot
West Indies
John Steventon
Eig
Thomas Goddard
Darcy Hebdon
Robert Austin
Ed. Fletcher
Dartiquenave
Edward Millbanke
Ralph Millbanke
Prince of Wales
Robert Browne
Whitefryers
Mills Morton
Friday-Street
Inglesby
North Allerton
Yorkshire
William Fowlis
Bart
Twiss
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