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Shipping News and Court Affairs Reach London
A crowded itemized report lists ships like Hawke East India and Duke of Albany sailing from the Downs and various ports with cargo details including raw silk tea and saltpetre. Royal proclamations, court events, marriages, deaths, and repairs at St James's Palace accompany notices of diplomatic talks and a prior Bartholomew Fair proclamation.
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London
Holderness
Sionhill
Brentford
Richmond
St. James's
Queen’s
St. James's Palace
Queen’s Palace
Baron de Dieden
Conway
Little Warwick-street
Pall‘vial
Princess Poniatowski
St. James's-quaré
Paris
Poland
Bond-street
Salisbury
Chapel Royal
Fulham
Stephen Cotterel
William Sharpe
Privy Council
Philip Sharpe
Mace
Bartholomew Fair
Newgate
Whitehall
Cour
Kingston
Jamaica
St. Thomas the East
Cotton
India-house
Downs
China
Nottingham
Mercury
Pigot
Anson
Madras
Hawke
Duke of Albany East Indiaman
Neptune
Mauritius
Yarmouth Sands
Wimbledon
Surry
George Keighly
Streatham
Miss Walker
William Walker
Merton
Leeds
Peel
Cheapside
Miss Backhouse
St. George the Martyr
Queen-square
Thomas Flowerdine
Acton
Middlesex
Maria Charlotte Denton
New Ormond-street
St. Nicholas Deptford
George Hutton
Academy
Croucher
Orn
Craven Buildings
Harcourt
Great Ormond Street
John Ducket
George I
Drury Lane
Harcott
Company of Undertakers
Exeter Change
Lambeth
Joseph Chamberlain
Royal Navy
Islington
John Tapscott
Clifford's Inn
Duke of Grafton
Camden Place
Kent
Adair
Hawkins
Gataker
Paddington
Thrift-street
Soho
Finchley-common
John Spinnage
Argyle Buildings
Barnet
John’Ingham
Sally
Green Dragon
Kick’s End Green
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital