Shipping News and War Dispatches from Sep 23 24
A long list of ships arriving and sailing from Gibraltar Lisbon Aatiges Dublin and Gravesend with captains names and vessel names. The Halifax Carolina and other ships report arrivals at Plymouth and Genoa while news from Virginia St Petersburg and Barbadoes recount naval actions and shortages in the West Indies including provisions scarcity and letters about General Washington and Lord Howe. The Bedford and Hampden packet details privateering captures and engagements with brigantines and reports estimations of fleets headed to America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dei
Wodd
Gibraltar
Bettye Rea
Lisbon
Lord North
Rok
Aatiges
Northampton
Moray and Ward
Hutchinson
Dublin
Deal
Elizabeth
Sandland
Georgia Packet
Carey
America
E.gravesend
New London Packet
Icemonger
Guernsey
Plysmouth
Morrison
Malaga
Aurora
Hannes
Dominica
Hendrick
Johnson
Embden
Thomas and Mary
Waterford
Free Goodwill
Tate
Amsterdam
Amherst
Lore
Falmouth
Leghorn
Catherine
M*clewer
Barbadoes
Portsmouth
Peggy
Plymouth
Earl of Effingham
Grosvenor
Quebec
London
England
Lancaster
Virginia
Glasgow
Lord Howe
Staten Island
Washington
Army of the Free and Independent States of America
Great Britain
Phoenix
Rose
Wallace
Montgomery
Pirpitia
Humber
Barbadots
Moore
Hampden
Rover
Simon Thomson
Bristol
Bates
Algarve
Gravesend
Infants and ships, robberies, and notable deaths in London
Beitly and an infant seized on arrival at London port while cargoes cross Irish seas. A captain commits suicide after papers withheld, and a mare is said to abscond with money from the sale. The New Grampus from Greenland is thought lost. Charles Lord Cadogan dies in Burlington Street. his heir is bound for Parliament and Mint duties. Yeomen salaries, oats imports, a Jewin Street fire, a walkham suicide, highwaymen near Hackney and Blackheath. A Greenwich justice detains a captured highwayman identified as William Franklin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Jane
Ireland
Scilly
Mary’s Pier
Grampus
Gregory
Greenland
Deptford
Burlington Street
Charles Lord Cadogan
Horse Guards
Gravesend
Tilbury Fort
His Majesty’s
British Museum
Royal Society
William
Elizabeth
Hans Sloane, Bart
Charles Sloane Cadogan
Lord Cadogan
Frances Bromley
Lord Montfort
Lord Farnham
Norfolk
Cambridge
Mint
House of Peers
Treasury Chamber
Gower
Walkenham
Berkshire
Ingram
Cheap Ward
Hackney
Mutton
Rim
Blackheath
Shooter’s Hill
J. Ruffel
Greenwich
William Franklin
Surry
Wimbledon Common
Commissions Signed by His Majesty for Army in Ireland
A long list of commissions signed by the king grants various officers from the Army in Ireland promotions and new appointments. Names span multiple regiments including the 14th Dragoon Guards 34th Foot 16th Foot 36th Foot 68th Foot 1st Horse and more with ranks Adjutant Captain Lieutenant Ensign Major and Chaplain. The section ends noting high water at London Bridge and a parish letter about forged Dr James's Powder labels and a warning to merchants and captains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
14Th Regiment of Dragoons
James Wilson
Foot
Humphrey Jones
16Th Foot
Robert Harvey Mallory
Christopher Maxwell
James Lee
Charles Cracroft
Robert Slater
Thomas Saunders
George Forbes
Lord Forbes
William ‘Fhompson
Thomas L’ettrange
John Otway Wynyard
John Hamilton
Richard Gem
Geo
Tageart
Williane M'Larin
Alexander Leith
Christopher Wilton
Mailey Brabazon
Liutenant
Alexander Montgomery
Ronald M.kenzie
James Hackman
Gilbert Shuckburgh Stewart
Sath Reg
Dragoons
Philip Walth
Arthur Cole
George Wiliam Molyneux
Guy Percival
Cornet
13Th Dragoons
James Stewart
Anth, Waters
Goth Foot
Cartes Ruxton
Gorge Hart
Bargn
Royal Irish Regiment of Artillery
Andrew Buchanan
Matthew Young
Thomas Atkinson
High Water
London Bridge
Despotism in Government Critique in a London Letter
A letter to the Printer of the London Evening Post laments that the British government veers toward tyranny. It claims Parliament decisions are pre decided in the Cabinet, with debates reduced to form, and that the public lacks liberty and full knowledge of the American war, with Gazette Paris deemed more reliable than the London Gazette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Evening Post
England
Junto
America
Gazette
Paris
London
Powder bar sale at Mr Newbery’s shop advertised
Abroad any powder bar is procured from Mr Newbery’s shop at No 63 St Paul’s Churchyard on the marrow side near Cheapside. The notice says Francis Newbery junior and Robert Hascourt Janes are the only proprietors and the sole agents authorized by Dr James, with others not employed in preparing or selling the medicine. Executors of the late Dr James referenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Newbery
St. Paul's Church Yard
London
Red Lion
Guildford
Dr. James
Dr James
Libercy
Timagine
West Indies
Portsmoth
Gil
Sam
Fervart
George Walford
Newbery
James
Dageaven
Owever
Indies
St. Alvan’s-ftrece
Jahion
St. Paul's Churchyard
de. James
Corhiman
India
Je‘liex
Lee Ros
Silver-street
Fizer-Areet
Lon
Diik
Speedimany
Pine Apple
St. Chamenv’s Churchy
Smith
Bond Street
Dice
Great Britain
Speedhman
Household Furniture Sale by Auction at New Exchange Office
Property of a gentleman abroad includes fine gore feather beds pier glasses girandoles wilson carpets and an elegant mixed damask furniture set. Furniture new within three years to be sold at fair value by two appraisers approved by both parties. Dire from A B at the New Exchange Office Houfe Strand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.B
Ifee
Strand
Morris's China Shop sells Van Hausen narcissus and tulip roots
Imported roots from Holland offered by Van Hausen with names like Narcissus of the Sun and Andromeda. Large quantities of tulip and hyacinth roots priced per root or per dozen, with posters promising globe delivery. Orders and payments arranged on delivery from Morris's China Shop and Richard Morris locations in London, via country orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Hausen
Europe
Raat van Haten
Prince William the First
Overswinnaar
Andromeda
Grand Sultan
David
Claudin
Civilus
Pitens Cardinalis
Globe
Ak. T. Linke
Morris
Great Queen-street
Lincoln Inn-fields
Richard Morris
St. Chad's Wells
Battie Bridge
Gray’s Law-lane
New Seventh Edition Bound For Price in One Volume
A single bound volume arrives as the Seventh edition, described as corrected enlarged and greatly improved, offering readers a revised and more complete edition in a compact format.
King’s Patented Cakes for Shining Liquid Blacking
This notice markets CAKES for making a liquid blacking to shine leather shoes and boots. Water-activated, it promises a hard yet pliable finish, prevents cracking, and eases donning and stockings. Sold wholesale and retail at multiple London outlets including Bagley and perfumers in Leadenhall Street, Holborn, St Paul’s Churchyard, and New Bond Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Bagley
Haymarket
London
John Price
Leadenhall Street
John Grosvenor
Holborn
F. Newbery
St. Paul's Churchyard
A. Rothwell
New Bond
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Lester
St. Mary’s
Panag
Huntingdon
Rutland
Leicester
Nottingham
Stafford
Salop
Yeretford
Worcester
Warwick
Gloucester
Wiltshire
Oxford
Zutt Bucks
Counties
Folk
Rl ?Blorfolk
Wales
South Wales
Scotland
Berke
Authority of
Par
Houshold Furniture
France
Kearfty
Serjeant’s Inn
Fleet-street
Cis
Enghity
Thomas Mawe
Duke of Leeds
John Aberc
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