Ship News From Sept 6 Arrivals and Departures
Thursday notices list ships sailing and arriving at multiple ports. Vessels include Hopewel Smith and Oak Disborough sailing to New York and Southampton. Success Incree Armstrong from Peterborough. New Recovery Tristram from Newcastle. Ar Caruana Revenge Palmer from London. Peters Wader from Quebec. Duke of Cumberland Paffmore. Squirrelly Moler Polly Napper from St. Croix. Fanzy Taye from Virginia. Bristol Faket Forrestal from Rotterdam. Anna Less Nealfin from Longfound. Brickcale Martin from Virginia. Swan Pale from Petersburgh. Fa Lyothers from Norway. Enterprise Brown from Hamburg. Friendship Vaylor from Bariyadoe.
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Ar Caruana
Revenge
Palmer
London
Quebec
Peters
Wader
Ditto
Duke of Cumberland
Paffmore
Stockton
Dingley
Harrison
Petersburgh
Dabdlin
Squirrelly Moler
Operto
Polly
Napper
St. Croix
Fanzy
Taye
Virginia
Waterford
Bristol
Brickcale
Martin
Swan
Pale
Fa Lyothers
Norway
John
Toulon Shipyard Starts Work On New Warships
Toulon August 7 report says the shipyard is contracting two line ships the Destin of 74 and the Caton of 64 guns, plus two frigates the Eclair and the Sardine of 76 guns each, with refitting of others underway and carpenters arriving from other ports, 200 already present.
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Toulon
Destin
Caton
Eclair
Obituary and Market Notes From September News
Bath reports the death of John Whithers Sherwood, Esq. in Langford Court, with Birmingham and Worcester market updates noting new hops prices and shipments. Canterbury details a fatal explosion at Core Powder Mills injuring two workers, one heroically saving a magazine, plus a fire at Frittenden destroying buildings and hay. New wheat arrived in the city market selling 46s to 42s per quarter.
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Bath
Langford Court
John Whithers Sherwood
Birmingham
Worcester
Canterbury
Core
Favertham
Gruebar
Frittenden
M. Bigg
London News Highlights From Aug 1770 Era Reports
Reports from London note advisory councils including Lords Halifax Egremont and Holland forming a Cabinet Council. Letters tell of tax contributions for farms, deaths of Polish prisoners in Tobolski, Parma’s finance disclosure for religious houses, and non importation sentiments in New York. Navy yard activities include shipbuilding and a Mercury 24 guns launch bound for South Carolina. Prostitution concerns in Westminster prompt policing and legal steps. Marriage and death notices, local incidents at Bartholomew Fair, and parliamentary intrigue in Versailles with the Duke of Orleans are also mentioned.
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London
Hallifax
Egremont
Holland
Worth
Manefield
Grice
Caisinet Council
Dantin
Berlin
Warsaw
Cracow
Dolina
Siberia
Tobolski
Placentia
Italy
Parma
New-York
Rufsian
Portmouth
Elfineur
Denmark
Admiral Elphinston
East India Service
West India
Lord Berborough
Warburton
Somerset Herald
Doctors Commons
Levant
Czarina
Petersburgh
Chatham
Portsmouth
Navy
Keeler
South Carolina
Prince George
Formiddle
Stirling Castle
Med
Kerntife
Queen’s Palace
St. Jaimes’s Park
House of Peers
Brown
Capability Brown
St. Jarress Park
Whitehall
Wastminster Abbey
Loughton
Bartholowew Fair
Apong
Rainsforth
Westminster
Martletcourt
Crown-courts
Ruffell-street
Covent-Garden
Bow-street
Bridewell
William Talbot
36Th Regiment of Foot
William Robinson
St. George’s
Bloomsbury
Samuel Samford
Great Buffel-street
Miss Wells
Rumford
Essex
Eltham Church
Kent
Anthony Merry
Miss Hornby
Princestreet
Hanover Square
Clapton
Jonathan Smith
Wooton
Bedfordshire
Monnoux
Philip Monnoux
Sandy
Barkingham
Caxingham
Lesley
James Lefley
George Berkeley
Jamaica
Lombard Street
Kensington Square
Damras Takefeld
Goodman’s Fields
Purfleet
William Purfleet
Newington- Butts
Heaury Batley
Hammersmith
Northern Queen of Arts and Arms in Arctic Skies
Poetic meditation on Catherine the Great as empress of Russia, praising her global peacekeeping power and naval expansion. The piece envisions her as ruler shaping Europe, Arctic voyages, and eastern campaigns, invoking storms, ships, and seas to symbolize her influence. It contrasts serenity with warlike potential and lauds law, glory, and enlightenment under her guidance.
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Katherine I
Russias
Wayfarer
Europe
Thade
Hamas
Danube
Fragmentary verse on mortality and beauty in nature
A fragment of poetry laments Belinda and beauty lost to death. It contrasts mortal peril with moral instruction, noting that fame and wit fade and that heaven’s summons calls all men, ending with a stark line about fish and nature.
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Belinda
Whitehaven
Races at Shrewsbury on Septembers by royal purse
The Shrewsbury race week schedule lists purses funded by the King and Lord Clive with horses aged four to six, limits on weight, entry rules, and deadlines. Events run across Sept 8 to Sept 12 at the course near Bickton Heath with multiple purses and evenings at local taverns.
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Bickton’s Heath
Shrewsbury
Golven
Lord Clive
Noel
Hill
John Williams
Cath Norft
Raven
Talbot
Reia Lion
Red Lion
Town Hall
N.B
Lord Clivs
Noel Hill
England
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Deal
Hopewel
Smith
New York
Oak
Disborough
Southampton
Country News
Orleans
M. le Chancelier
Tenu
Versailles
Palais
Mienne
le Duc d’ Aiguillon
Duke of Orleans
Prince of
India
South Sea
K S
Aw. Aed. J
Cvas
Wales
Milton
Pose
Addison
Shalesprare
Tiblotron
Locke
Iridefmen
Freisners
Byte Rey
John Entick
Ratcliffe
West
Jon
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