Letters From the Middlesex Journal Letter Vil 1769
Fragmented correspondence from 1769 includes letters to Carry and Mrs H- mentioning Halkin Hollywell Street and Almacks, with plans to meet in London. It covers political dispatches from Constantinople and the Hague, London mayor Beckford’s death, and colonial unrest in Anglian affairs, plus notes on figures like Grosvenor and Dundas.
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Halkin Hollywell Sc
Gros—r
Ferricoe
London
Hollywell
Tamm
Billy
Naval Movements and Royal Visit Hints
Portmouth June 20 arrivals include Portsea Gray from Salisbury Tarver from London Good Agreement Willis and Rose in June Wood from Sunderland. Eleanor Farmer sails for Plymouth St Helen's Bebell for New Haven. Venus paid off yesterday under Hon Capt Barrington. Duke of Cumberland expected at Cranbourn Lodge latter end of month.
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PORT
Portmouth
Portsea
Gray
Salisbury
Tarver
London
Willis
Rose
Wood
Sunderland
Eleanor
Farmer
Plymouth
St. Helen’s
Bebell
New Haven
Venus
Barrington
Duke of Cumberland
Cranbourn Lodge
Arrival of Melvill in Grenada and Protestant triumph
An April 15 letter reports General Melvill, valued governor, arriving in Grenada to the joy of Protestants and friends of the Protestant cause, while lamenting a cabal aiding French Catholic subjects. The note includes market quotes for Dutch East India stock and English funds, with government securities and bonds listed as traded at one o'clock.
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Soho Square
William Beckford
London
Livery of
Trecothick
Crosby
Robert Ladbroke
Hugh Kelly
Honestus
Plumbe and
Kirkman
Plumbe
Balfe
M‘quirk
Gillam
Murray
M‘leane
M‘leane, ‘M‘laughlin, M‘laughry
Kennedys
Oliver
Patterson
Billingsgate
Geo. Ballas
England
Lisbon
Alderman Wilkes
Stowe
Buckinghamshire
Earl Temple
East-India Company
Scotland
Saffron Hill
Bryant Lodge
Cologne
Inft
Constantinople
Egypt
Leghorn
Venice
Levant
Corsica
de Marbeuf
Count de Vaux
Laxenbourg
Germany
Princess of Lichtenstein
Sterning
Paris
Sterling
Amaule
Normandy
British Empire
Fitzmaurice
Bruce
Liverpool Club
Island
Liverpool
Great Britain
Grenada
Melvill
India
South Sea
Consol
Also Mentioned on This Page
Middlesex Journal
H.G
Thomas Grosvenor
Vernon T
St James’s Palace
Grosvenor
M. ‘Stephens
T. ‘Pons
Tunis
Barbary
Earl of Rochford
Joseph York
Hague
Andrew Melchill
St. James’s
Port Egmont
Faulkland Island
Hages
Portugal
Carthagena
Pancrafs
Forsyth
Limehouse
Hannah Wood
Roberts
Gough Square
Fleetstreet
Toulon
Amsterdam
Bank
A. Ditto
Lila ‘ S
Navy
Victualliniz
Ensign
Joseph Dalmeida
Garraway
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