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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 20, 1772
Page
3
Fragmented dispatches report Polish, Austrian, and Turkish developments, including anticipated changes in Poland's political system, Prussian canal projects, and military entrenchments. Notes cover Russia's leverage, Galician troop activity, and Rome marriage ceremonies with royal intrigues and vast fortunes.
In Taunton on Saturday crowds pressed farmers to sell wheat at 5s per bushel, threatening force to enforce the price. Elsewhere in Somerset, disorderly behavior was reported but the claim was disputed. News from Salisbury notes the Earl and Countess of Radnor visiting Longford Castle. A Weymouth shipwreck report about plague on board is stated without basis.
Portsmouth reports arrivals at Gpithead of the Stafford East-Indiaman under Capt Liell from China and the Alarm frigate under Capt Jarvis from the Mediterranean. The Salisbury East-Indiaman capt Bromfield also passed the Isle of Wight this morning en route from China.
Sail lists show Deal Fane 21 and ships Southamprort Seaford Boftgwen Jacobon bound for Boston. Warbourne Olive sails to Newfoundland. Wind at South Wet Phe Polly from Bilboa arrived Falmouth. Dunkin from Amsterdam at Penzance. Chang from Newfoundland at Lymington. Mercury from ditto at ditto. Gillean from Bayonne at Portsmouth. Duzon from Waterford at ditto. Clements from Leghorn at Plymouth. Redhead Galley Neale from the Granades at Dover. Unity Crozier from Ancona at Bristol.
Extract from Deal notes Sir Robert Murray Keith's arrival in London and a Dutch-ink incident near Copenhagen. It details a bank panic in London with several bankers stopping payments, widespread distress among merchants, and rising unemployment. It reports royal parades, ships sailing, legal cases on slavery, and local crimes, deaths, and marriages amid the financial turmoil.
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