25 Dec 1770
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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 25, 1770
Page
1
An early October dispatch from Captain Law describes a September arrival from Haiti noting a plague outbreak in Prince Phat-the. The fragmentary text indicates a warning carried to Philadelphia about health conditions aboard the visiting vessel.
Deal December 24 reports most outward ships returned to the Downs. East Indiamen and four warships listed, including Jufitia Summerville bound for Virginia, Waiham and Elizabeth for Antigua, Matthew Paine for St Kits. Arrivals include Albion Hinderwel from Petersburght to Portsmouth and Nancy Thomson from Alicant to ditto. Cocket from Virginia and Mercury Hatton from Dominica at Liverpool and other ships reaching Virginia and Barbatiers.
Reported yesterday at the Chapel Royal the King and Queen received Holy Communion from the Lord Bishop of Worcester amid a grand saloon ceremony. Meanwhile Admiralty officials posed as a political showdown looms. mutinous seamen attacked East India Company crews, with ships Grenville and James facing threats as dangers mount along the coast and in the river port towns.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a public figure and correspondence with Mr Horn. It hints at a recognition or compliment and a pending public matter. Names and places are unclear, but the tone suggests a formal communication or compliment.
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