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Portmouth to London: naval arrivals and local crime notes
In Spithead, the Rainbow man of war arrives from Portsmouth with convoy ships. Several vessels from Virginia bound to London reach port, while a Magnanime court martial convicts a boatswain’s mate for drunken assault. Local crimes include a highway robbery near Gunnersbury and the infant corpse theft at Islington. Trade shows extensive imports and exports through Deal and the Downs, detailing wheat, meat, gold, silver, linen, tobacco, sugar, silk, and other goods from multiple ports.
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Oparto
Portmouth
Spithead
Qporto
Free Mason
Eyer
Unity
Cousens
John and Prestiy
Thompson
Hope
Nicholson
Grey
Ruffin
Carnaby
Mary Ann
Walkers Fauquier
Wray
Gale
Laurence
Virginia
London
Eltham
Kent
Jane Buck
Buck
Gunnersbury Lane
Kewbridge
Stephen Lawless
Angel-Inn
New-road
Islington
King’s- Head
St. John’s Street
Hicks’s Hall
Portugal
Holland
New York
Dee
Madeira
Germany
West Indies
Turky
Senegal
Oporto
Deal
Downs
Wind 'S.S. W