Atlantic naval movements and royal court notices
Reports from Gravesend and port towns detail ships from Jamaica Norway and Bristol arriving or sailing, with merchants and captains named. Notices include royal events in London Grosvenor Square, the Duke of Bedford’s move to Streatham, and the Marquis of Rockingham’s levee. Additional dispatches mention Lisbon mail and the Duke of York’s southern tour, plus earthquake damage in Cephalonia and troop mortality from Senegal orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haddon
Deal
Maryland
Graham
Gravesend
Anne
Maxted
Georgia
Simpson
North Carolina
Hudson
Spencer
Milright
Riga
Wright
Norway
Portsmouth
Prosper
Thomas
Ditto
Bristol
Rebecca
Robinson
Antigua
Elizabeth
Cunningham
Concord
Lancaster
Parham
Brown
Ramsgate
London
Clark
S. Carolina
Sally
Boufie
Malaga
Cowes
Fame
Usher
Southampton
St. George
Hadman
Gottenburgh
Exeter
Thornton
Sutton
Petersburg
Scarborough
Henry Dawkins
Henderson
Jamaica
St. Kitt’s
Young
St. Kitt's
Charming Sally
Mansfield
Andromache
Hamer
Montferrat
Carr
Tortola
King George
Aris
Dominican
Beagle
Bath
Marquis of Rockingham
Grosvenor Square
Duke of Grafton
Earl of Shel- Bene
Dorfethe
Lady Townshend
Ireland
Paris
Duke of York
Bourdeaux
Marshal de Richelieu
Languedoc
Provence
Venice
Cephalonia
Om Lifton
Tagus
Senegal
Portsmaush
New- York
North America
West Country
Spithead
Portsmouth Common
Winchester
Thasnes
Iris
Distillers, Dyers, and Hog Owners Look for Shares in Bread
A long London digest details economic hopes for bread from an upcoming harvest. Clergy appointments and degrees at Rochester and Edinburgh are noted, with ship news from Planters Friend and Lovely Betsey about Maryland, Newfoundland, Corke, and Leghal incidents. Social misfortunes and deaths in Elgin, Uttoxeter, Deptford, and Chelsea are chronicled alongside local disasters, drownings, and a child brought before Justice. The report includes marriages at Seal and Rotherhithe, plus a London farm dung procession and a Genoese mercantile accident near Rumford, all framed by notes from Lloyd’s Evening.
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Law
Earl of
Joseph Jeffries
Gresham College
Robinson
Friend
Maryland
John and
Ann
Weymouth
Hezekiah Thurnham
Newfoundland
Thurnham
Capt. Robinson
Bacchus
Newcastle
London
Gibraltar
Miss Hardinge
Nicholas Hardinge
Treasury
Neice
Seal Sunday
St. Mary Rotherhithe
Duffel
Justice Leach
Miss Ball
Rotherhithe
Captain Ball
Elgin
Murray
James Fraser
Henry Unwin
South Weald
Essex
Ranelagh
Whalebone
Rumford
Bullock
Efg
Stratford
Daniel le Gal
le Gals
White Horse
Lewisiam
Smithfield
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Sir Samuel Fludger
Guildhall
Childs
Covent Garden
St. Andrew, Holbourn
St. Andrew’s
Newgate
Moses Fonseca
Chatham
Rochester
Laws dressed like sailors. Who carried off his merchandize box
An obituary notice states Andrew Hamilton, Esq, a long time merchant at Mulkito Shore, died recently. The piece notes he resided there over fifty years and mentions a theft involving merchants goods, a silver watch, and two guineas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laws
Mulkito Shore
Andrew Hamilton
Nominating Candidate for Cumberland Parliament in 1767
James Lowther sends a humble notice from Whitehaven on September 3 1767. He states that Curwen was rejected as a candidate by a large majority of Gentlemen Clergy and Freeholders at a General Meeting and asks for support for those who have long honored him with the trust of representing the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardigan
Aving
Snani
Caillizan
Frvant
Lisburne
Cergy
Freehlders
Cumberland
Wigton
Curwen
AM S Low Tuer
Bart
Clerey
Curwes
FreTcuen
Clercy
Wiston
Ouerlin
Bletcher
Tox
Berg
Broyvie Pane
Ringmer
Sussex
Lewes
Star Inn
A&t
Humphry
Jseph Calverley
Etgrs
Thomas Scrafe
White Hart Inn
Lesses
Old Original Raisin Wine Warehouse Ad in Catherine Street
An 18th century advertisement promotes Bganpy 5s 6d and Raisin Wine 3s per gallon at the Old Original Raisin Wine and Brandy Warehouse in Catherine Street Strand. It touts thousands of gallons of mellower Raisin Wine from abroad, pre ferred to green fruit wines, plus fine old French brandy Jamaica rum ports Madeira. Orders from the country welcomed. money refunded if not liked. Two gallons minimum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Street
Strand
Jamaica
Mountain
Lisbon
Madeira
A. Lamb
N. B
Postscript on London Evening Post Conference Details
A letter notes that late conferences on forming a new ministry failed not from policy disputes but from clashes over patronage and filling offices. It criticizes ministers for pursuing personal gain over redressing national grievances and corruption, urging a ministry focused on the people's good. The author laments England’s need for reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Evening Post
Merrys
England
Also Mentioned on This Page
Whitehaven
Tour
James LowTher
R. Walker
Scotland
America
King’s Arms
Sessions House
Old Baily
Bartley
Baawoe Infirmary
St. Ghad’s Church
Orcuck
Sarah ‘Bakkhs
Benjamin Baker
Lokceiet
Thomas Row
Gontrell
Henry J Cat
Fyfield
Wily
Richard Brown
Lawore Line
Bucklersbury
Kent
Surry
Wesuinite
Chetwyn
Downing Street
Westrainster
Seven Oaks
Wiliam Elliot
Fard
James Gorton
Hart
Thomas Hilder
Auttland
Dartford
Bromley
Tunbridge
Tunbidge Wells
Horfmonden
Fale
Postscript
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