Ships sail and convoy details from the Downs
The text lists ships and captains bound for destinations including Louisbourg Virginia Gibraltar Boston and South Carolina. Vessels named include the Sea horse Revenge Chatham Richmond Seahorse Mary Wright and Appearance Woilye with winds described as East blowing fresh. Several ships sailed yesterday under convoy, including the Seahorse Earl of London Carter Frigate Racehorse and Richard and Elizabeth. Remain in the Downs are Revenge Chatham and Richmond with the Mary for Louisbourg and the Appearance Woilye for Stockholm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feney
Fort
Skinner
Boston
Friendship
Hay
Gibraltar
Hungerford
Walker
South Carolina
Seahorse
Revenge
Chatham
Richmond
Mary
Wright
Louisbourg
Woitge
Stockholm
Deal
Earl of London
Litk
Nova Scotia
Carter
Payne
Virginia
Racehorse
Maxwell
T ‘Pulteney
Farr
Frungerford
Richard and
Elizabeth
Eynon
Dublin
Davis
Cork
Downs
Ricmond
Woilye
Prussians retake Sonnensteinn and Pira amid European shifts
In London a German account says Prussians recaptured Sonnensteinn and Pira from the Austrians. Count Oberg’s army lost under 400 in a skirmish with the French, caused by wagon breakdowns delaying Hessians. French sailors block Brest. British ships arrive at Plymouth and Hull. News of appointments, marriages, and deaths follow, including Shirley named governor of the Bahamas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Sonnensteinn
Pira
Lois
Oberg’s
Vienna
Ferdinand
Brest
Kent
Naples
Plymouth
Portsmouth
Coventry
M. Kauw
Archangel
Guernsey
Elizabeth
Liddall
Rotterdam
Berwick
Dunkirk
Merlin
Hull
Felicite
Rochfort
Eagle
Wallis
Topsham
Stanton
Londonderry
Mandall
Norway
Leith
Robertson
Shirley
Bahama Islands
Col. Prideaux
3D Regiment of Foot Guards
15Th Reiment
Lord Howe
Col. Burgess
Regiment of Guards
Prideaux
Blennerhhaffer
Regiment of Foot
Duke of Richmond
Haines
4Th Regiment of Dragoons
Robert Rich
Benjamin Lyon
Lisbon
English Harbour
Antigua
Kinsale
Lyon
Duke of Newcastle
Richard Turner
Newcastle
Lincoln’s Inn Hall
St. Edmund
Lombard Street
Christopher Richardson
Kirkhaugh
Northumberland
Ifs Fetherstonhaugh
Matthew Fetherstonhaugh
Queen Square
Westminster
Lewisham
James Delaporte
Maifs Richards
Blackheath
Richard Collis
L.L. B
Norwich
Creffy
Boston
Lincolnshire
Francis Fane
Fulbeck
Commission of the Peace
Thomas Payne
Hough
Miss Cuft
Lady Gaft
Belton
Jaft
Charles Spelman
Efg
John Spelman, Esq
Red-Liog-Stece
Holbourn
Royal Patent for Ant i Arthritick Wine in 32nd Year Reign
The document announces a royal patent granted to Joseph Collett for an anti arthritic wine and powder. It touts cures for gout among nobility and others, with usage guidance, a guaranteed time frame, and a sale location at the Golden Ball in the Strand priced at one guinea. The patentee promises to remove gout from head or stomach in one hour or forfeit fifty pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Rhen
Joseph Collest
Joseph Collett
Westminster
Ioway
Golden Ball
Strand
News from Europe on Prussia Austria and England
Letters from Vienna Dresden and Hamburg report Prussian forces near Daun and Rauch. The Empress plans levies to aid allies and Saxony while Rome grants tithes to fund war. Fleet movements from Portsmouth note Royal George failure and imminent expedition sails. Swedes and Russians shift positions as battles loom across Bohemia Silesia and Pomerania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Warsaw
Petersburgh
Saxony
Russian Empire
Charles Ior
Courland
Prussia
Vienna
Rome
Germany
Dresden
Grand Army of
Retzow
Weiffenberg
Bautzen
Prince of
Bahn- Dourlach
Hochkirchen
Bohemia
Zittau
Silesia
Prince Henry
Ghamig
Dippoldswalden
Pomerania
Stargard
Count Dohna
Pyritz
Ackeran-Marche
Mentz
Marshal Daun
Hamburgh
Harfch
Neifs
Berlin
Neu-Ruppin
Amsterdam
Caxzette
Amterdam
Lutterburgh
Munden
Marshal Contadeg
Ham
Werle
Wahrendorff
Lippe
London
England
Fucha
Commons
Portmouth
Royal George
Dorril
Hughes
Colberg
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Blackstone
Oxford
Charles Viner
Elys
Lady Northumberland
Mr. Hardy
Mr. Murray
Mr. Parker
Champaign
Cade
Mr. Fletcher
Conyers Darcy
Mr. Shaftoe
Ripon
Mr. Carby
Chance
Duke of Cleveland
H. Bumper
Mr. Morley
H. Monkey
Geo. Savill
Tom Wens
Thumb
Hodgson
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