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News of ships and port actions across portsmouth and london
A broad extract from a Portsmouth letter reports HMS L from Havre docking at Spithead while Admiral Rodney arrives at St Helens with victualing ships. The frigate Repulse sails from the harbour and a 74 gun French warship Guerrier is said to have escaped. Other items note wheat shipments to Italy, religious appointments, marriages, accidental deaths, a post rider mishap, and royal pardons. Reports also discuss taxation critiques, potential Italian territorial rearrangements, and recent deaths at Cripplegate and Highgate with brief notices of ship movements and local misfortunes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rofistdam
Liadnat
Norway
Naples
Portmouth
Spithead
Havre
Rodney
St. Helen’s
Victual
Repulse
Southsea Castle
Sierp Munkerius
Amsterdam
Dieppe
Dover
Sherwell
Bristol
Leghorn
Guerrier
Boscawen
Lagos Bay
Italy
Jackson
Duke of Bedford
Ireland
William James
Henley
Devon
Exeter
Sotthwark
Joseph Jarvis
Billingsgate Dock
Thames
General Post Office
Tunbridge
Cannon Street
Thames, Opposite Mr. Jukes
Stecard
Westminster
Southwark
Martin Reid
Kingston
Southwark Bridewell