Critical notices on stage and politics in Richmond era
Fragmentary letters critique actor performance and management at Richmond's theater, praising Miss Plym's Sylvia and criticizing Mr. Love and Mr. Dibdin. The letter condemns favourites at court, urges fair casting, and notes broader news from Nova Scotia, Pensacola, New Orleans, Detroit, and Illinois missions with regard to governors, treaties, and frontier garrisons.
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Ealety
Ralph
Francis Gipe
Dibdin
Printer
Mr. Love
Fops
Campleys, &c
Times
Richmond
Jess
Opening in Dominique island alarm to British interests
A letter from Fort St. Pierre dated June 30 1765 reports a newly found cavity in Dominique about seven leagues away, with no bottom, causing frequent earthquakes. French crews retreat home while English sleep on their ships. Florence August 16 notes an imperial register requiring locals to report strangers arrivals, lodgings, and occupations. The Duke of Burma gifts eight English saddle horses and a hundred dogs to the Duke of Savoy.
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Esterday
France
Fort St. Pierre
Martinico
Dominique
Florence
Tania
Burma
Duke of ‘Savoy
English warships and French shallops trade raid at St Peters
From Newfoundland reports dated July 22 by Capt Phillips who arrived last Friday. Four English men of war and two French on station for trade protection. One tender of the English fleet reached St Peter's and seized three English vessels and eight or nine French shallops trading at the mouth of the river.
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ECR
AL Bosten
Phillips
Newfoundland
St. Peter’s
Woman Swears Rape Complaint Against Local Suspect
Leeds reports Lettice Wilson, thought dead, found alive in Wetherby. Before a magistrate she swore a rape and robbery accusation against Abraham Kirkman, who was seized about two weeks ago and is jailed in York. Also listed are arrivals at ports and ships at Spithead before zero wind.
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Country News
Leeds
Bradford
Lettice Wilson
Wetherby
Abraham Kirkman
York
Baptism date fixed for young Prince in London
London sets the 18th as the baptism day for the young Prince at St James’s. News from The Hague says the Duke of York and the Prince and Princess of Brunswick will not arrive soon. Earl of Hertford arrives from Suffolk. Horatio Walpole plans a trip to the South of France for health. Lord Mayor and Miss Stephenson dined with John Stephenson at Brentford. bells rang for the ringers’ gift. Vienna letters report a paper in the late Emperor’s hand stressing alliance with England and cautious notes on Irish officers and Dutch relations. An inquiry may examine French covert actions in Corfiga amid Gibraltar intelligence about future war risks to British navigation in the Mediterranean.
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London
St. Jaimes’s
Hague
Duke of York
Prince
Princess of
Brunswick
Earl of Hertford
Ireland
Suffolk
Horatio Walpole
Arlington-street
St. James’s
France
Vienna
House of Austria
England
Great Britain
Europe
Corfiga
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Juno brings Cornwallis home as money and ships depart
News from Spithead reports his Majesty's frigate Juno arriving from Cadiz with Governor Cornwallis, and about 1000000 pounds in specie and merchants' money. A party from Medway arrived from the East Indies. money heads to London guarded by crew. Parliament to consider major crown law reforms including assaults and bastardy laws. Trade disturbances in Newcastle resolved. pestilence abated in Smyrna. new cambrick manufactory planned in Douglas Isle of Man. Major Pittton named lieutenant colonel. Edinburgh commissary appointment. several local marriages and deaths noted. cricket on Richmond Green. Morocco seeks mediation. English plans to challenge French trade claims.
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Pepifaviah
Juno
Spithead
Cadiz
Cornwallis
Gibraltar
Chatham, S
Medway
East Indies
London
Newcasle
Dublin
West-India
Smyrna
Edinburgh
Archibald Murray
Fowlis Castle
Scotland
Harry Munro
Fowlis
Bart
Redlingfield
Suffolk
Henry Willis
Jane Lubbock
Richard Lubbock
Norwich
Joseph Allanby
Cannon-street
Susanna Wickited
Wickited
Camberwell
Durham
Joseph Barton
Royal Regiment of North Americans
Hackney
Jonas Warrener
Ratclitte
Middlesex
Battesea
John Malpas
Maifey
Colne-Engayne
Essex
Cruilt’s Hospital
Lawrence
Chelsea Hospital
Burying Ground
Richmond Green
Chertfey
Richmond
Laeham Borough
Cherfey
Vacancy Notice for Macclesfield School Master
The Place of Usher at a Macclesfield school will be vacant at Michaelmas. Governors will meet on Tuesday October 1 to elect a teacher. Graduates from any university with good bearing and morals may apply to Mr William Bradford in Macclesfield. Current salary is thirty pounds a year and may be increased in time.
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Usher
Free
srammar S_hool i
Macclesfield
Chester
Dhey
Houle i Macclesfield
Pen o'Clek
Berning
William Bratford
Erry Pounn
Postscript on Measures Over Ministries and Liberty
An elderly writer refrains from endorsing a ministry, urging judgment by its policies. If Parliament acts to strengthen the House of Commons, curb corruption, protect personal liberty, and formalize the legality of warrants, he will praise the ministry. Otherwise, he warns that corruption via bribes and patronage undermines the constitution and subject safety.
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Wmat
Halloo
House of Comemons
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