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Naval privateers and mutterings from London gossip
Reports from London detail Count Caibis leaning neutral in the Spain war, privateers sailing from New England to prey on Spanish targets, and Haddock s squadron capturing a rich San Joseph off Cadiz. Admiralty orders push 29 gun ships to sea while more ship losses and court notices fill the day in Bath and London.
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London
Caibis
Spain
Jast
Bath
Gunman
Dover
Royal Navy
New England
Haccock
Buenos Ayres
Harriott
Gibralar
Admiral Haddock
Maracaibo
Cadiz
Puerto Rico
San Joseph
Portsmouth
Guipulcoan Company
Admiralty
Damnon
Newfoundland
Bacalao
Edward Walpole
Ely
Lord Conway
Order of the Bath
Hubbock
St. John’s College, Oxon
Missordan
Burwash
Sussex
Jordan
Chichester
Bridewell
Alderman Parsons
Richard Hoare
Bethlem Hospital
Bethlem
Essex and Middlesex
Whitechapel
Thomas Dunn
West Smithfield
Walter Sutton
Castle Street
Southwark
Reading
Mr. Savage
Ludgate-street
Elizabeth Rawlins
Newgate
Col. de. Weil
Orr
Loxdon
Whitehall
Cooper
Chester
Spithead
Duke of Newcastle
Haddocks
St. Joseph
Carraccas
Guipuscoan Company
St. Joseph Arriv
Thompson
Haddock