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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 19, 1770
Page
3
Early June reports detail European, Ottoman, and Russian naval movements around the Dardanelles and Morea. Mutinies aboard pressed sailors, the Grand Signor funding confederates, and dispatches from Smyrna note plague and hospitalizations amid strategic reinforcements. Paris disaster and British-German diplomacy closures follow.
Reports from Copenhagen and Lisbon describe a potential alliance with the Rufsians in the Turkish war, and a Portuguese fleet preparing a secret expedition likely headed for Buenos Ayres to reinforce Fernando de Noronha. Massachusetts Quakers report jail riots after tax refusals, while Boston notes progress in Broad Cloth manufacture. Cambridge of Lynn is cited from July 13.
Yesterday Sir John Goodriche waited on the King at St James's and the Queen attended a Cabinet Council. Prince of Mecklenburg Strelitz arrived in town and the Earl and Countess of Chatham came to London. Lord-Mayor ill, possible new appointment for Sir John Wrotterley, and discussions of circular letters to counties. Courts and judges shuffle with Athhurst appointed, Blackstone moved, and circuits chosen. Royal review of cavalry planned on Wimbledon Common and foreign service readiness for Royal Artillery. Multiple imports from China and Bombay East Indiamen reached the Thames.
The Bemont Bat Indiaman captained by Meats sails from Lortdott to the Raft-Indies while multiple marriages are noted: Mrs Mon tague to Mrs Talbot in Dorset, William Watts to Mrs Hankin with 25,000 pounds, John Boot to Miss Clifton in Chelsea, and a high church ceremony in Lambeth Chap el for Hon and Rev Dr Shate Barrington to Miss Guife. Sir James Cotton dies in Cork, his son inheriting the title and estate.
Deal, June 18, wind southwest. Grandby and Speaker sailed for the River with the India Pilot aboard. Deal, June 19, wind east by north. No ships in the Downs. Various vessels passed by the Matilday, including Norwey bound ships and accounts of arrivals from Beekmont to Leghorn. Ships entered towards Lune 16 and 3 from Africa, Nevis, Jamaica, and St Kitts. dozens of named vessels cleared outwards for Virginia, Naples, and other ports.
A 1770 prospectus touts England's Bloody Tribunal as a weekly numbered work. It promises frontispieces, copperplates, and a narrative of Protestant sufferings, cruelties of the Inquisition, and lives of reformers. By Reverend Matthew Taylor, printed in London with subscriptions and gratis offers.
In Nantwich on June 26 1769 a man about 35 after a quarrel with his wife drank arsenic mixed in ale. Dr James’s powder and bleeding aided recovery, enabling him to resume work and vow not to take poison again. The notice warns of counterfeit Dr James powders and lists a supplier at No 65 Bible and Crown St Pauls Churchyard.
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