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London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Oct 18, 1740

Page

2

Privateers and Fleet Actions Report from Oporto and Guernsey

Extracts describe near Oporto a privateer chase with a well armed ship, a captured privateer vessel, and the Potent mentions of a Dutch ship encounter. Letters from France claim coastal fortifications and large forces, while French merchants push trade forward despite tensions. Reports include town fires, marriages and deaths, court rulings, and naval movements around Spithead and St Helens. The Union, a New York bound ship, was captured by Spaniards. a daring raid by Capt Colt and crew on the Boyd Snow earned Jamaica port entry and a swift escape. The London Gazette notes the Lord Mayor’s visit to the king on his return.

Oporto O. S Christopher Card Vigo Newfoundland France Dunkirk Graveline Great Britain England King’s Bench Guildhall Lee Common Council Vimy Gloucestershire de Lord Talbot Barrington Froom Somersetshire Ascher Spithead St. Hellens W.S. W Sis Mazarion Mounts Bay Swift Edwards Cosk Duke of Argyle Brudenell Street Samuel Clay St. John’s Street Sally Brown Attleborough Richard Cheek Chelsea Ely Chelsea Church Ellers Laft Audley Chapel Grosvenor-square Henry Warcopp Charing- Cross Linnen-Draper Dorothy Wynne Sergeant Wynne Webb Hampstal-Ridware Litchfield Staffordshire Boycott Doctors Commons William Webb Croxal Middleton Riffean the Treasury Arnold Vincent Deceas London Hoblin College-Green Bristol House of Commons Anne Howard William Meers Edward Madder Thomas Clack Eleanor Mumpman William Duell Margery Stanton Edward Madders Richard Quale John Glass St. Clement’s Church Col. de Veil Richard Lamb Bridewell Guernsey Rye Union Tackness New York Britto Colt Boyd Snow St. Christopher’s Jamaica Port Royal Court Carthagena London Gazette St. James’s City of London Duke of Grafton Houthold John Strange
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