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Parisian fashions and naval actions ripple through London
A long dispatch from London notes a John Wilkes in town from Paris and the Earl of Bute still there, while peopled rumors claim delays to a new house near Berkeley Square and preparations for overseas service. Reports detail ships fitting at Portsmouth, challenges from Boulogne, and the arrival of slave ships to Barbadoes. various marriages, deaths, and local misdeeds fill the social page amid fleeting mentions of crime and a medical pamphlet distribution.
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Géttain Buke
John Wilkes
Paris
Earl of Bute
Berkeley-square
Kew
London
Boulogne
France
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Fly
Spithead
Juno
Soxe’s Bay
Plysouth
Admiral Holbourne
Amazon
Deptford
Danae
Eesley
Havannah
Hannah
Jarvis
Boston
Dover
Dolphin
Johnson
Seahorse
Glover
Edward
Farrer
Haditto
Africa
Liverpool
Barbadoes
Jamaica
Fenner
Ceylon
Hardwicke
Drake
William Rugge, Esq
Conduit-street
Hanoverfquare
Sheppard
Samuel Sheppard
Northamptonshire
Sir James Clark
Moulney
Surrey
Adair
Minorca
James Wadsworth
Mense
Mife Skinner
Newington
Surry
Col
Fitzroy
Chesterfield-street
Mayfair
Red Lion-Street
Holbourn
Ruth Crook
Red-Lion-S.see
St. George’s
Bloomsbury
Supies Park
Yetterday
Orchard-street
Britto
Bristols
Willinms
Edward.Biffin
St. Georges
Higgins
Job Bifin
Hestiborough
Dame Perth
Leon
Newgate