English Privateers and London News from Cork to Plymouth
Report on a Spanish privateer capture near Cape Finisterre and a ransomed crew from St Sebastian. Updates include the Tyger voyage wreck after a gale from Jamaica to London, coaster damages, and a Dunkirk privateer captured by Grace. Military promotions, noble marriages, Lord Mayor events, beggar controls, a suicide note, and a Luci e christening mix amid local gossip.
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Cape Finisterre
St. Sebastian’s
Pinéras
Cork
Lisbon
Plymouth
Tyger
Biggs
Jamaica
London
Dunkirk
Grace
Hermione
Portsmouth
Royal
Duke of York
William Burnaby
James Young
Piercy
Brett
John Moore
Richard Tyrrell
Lord Colvill
James Douglass
William Gordon
Lord Edgecumbe
Robert Swanson
Samuel Graves
Augustus Keppel
Thomas Stanhope
Augustus Hervey
Duke of Manchester
Miss Dashwood
James Dashwood
Charles, Boone
Miss Crowley
Ambrose Crowley
Kant
Countess of Ashburnham
Scotland
George Birch
Col. Halés
Dragoons
Miss Dickinson
Lancaster
Lordmayor
Thomas Chitty
Pond
Hackney
John Barnard
New River
Cannonbury House
Aye
Lucifer
Lucy
Political Prints From Hogarth Eraated Cartoons Exhibit
A coarse advertisement denounces attempts to suppress political prints as incendiary. It lists titles for satirical works such as The Garden of Eden, The Laird of the Boor, and The Asfes of England, published by Impeer’s Political Prince Warehouse near Shoe Lane Fleet Street, priced sixpence.
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Shoe-Lane
Fleet
Garden of Eden
Mortimer
Wichone
Asfes
England
John Bull
Paris
Times
W. Hogarth
Thoughtful Britannicus on Portugal and the Americas
A long letter to the London Evening Post argues that if Portugal loses in Europe Britain should promote a Brazil settlement for strategic gain. It extols keeping conquests in the Caribbean and Asia, training colonists, and expanding trade, with Pocock praised for persuading rivals. The discourse muses on defense, finances, and future colonial policy amid war.
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London Evening Post
Portugal
Great Britain
Brazils
Great-Britain
Havannah
House of Bougbon
Sam
Britannicus
Martinico
Guadalupe
Quebec
Montreal
Pondicherry
East Indies
America
Germany
Louisbourg
Euurope
France
Spain
Admiral Pocock
London Evening-Post
Tom
Great ‘Britain
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Talichs
Christianus
Fera