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Middlesex Middlesex Journal

Location

Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 12, 1772

Page

3

Nuptial notes and robberies reported in distant ports

May 14 reports from Yefitidy and Mait fon Funners include a royal betrothal with a 500,000 crown dowry and a departure to meet a spouse. In Parma a midnight theft targets the coronation reliquary and altar treasures. A Hague letter notes Surinam natives raid plantations. authorities seek thieves amid troop shortages.

Raley Share Maceram France Spain Parma Our Lady

Dover and Ramsgate News: Smuggling, Graves End, and Hoisting

In May at Folkstone Dover and Ramsgate reports tell of a fatal drowning when a boat with five men sailed to pilot a loaded collier from Ramsgate to Sandwich Haven. Two men boarded, but a violent sea caused the boat to overturn. William Goodwin of Broad-stairs was drowned. Three others survived after clinging to the hull until rescue. The piece also notes a melee with smugglers near Petworth, where Supervisor Garrat was badly wounded, and a smuggling related pursuit from Deal ended with arrests. Extra letters from Chithefer and Bury report the Duke of Grafton in Suffolk training militia, and a tragic accident at Chatham where a child fell from Victory’s hold, fatally bruised.

Bath Clerimpas Canterbury Sims Folkstone Hawking Thursaay Jatt St. Mary's Church Dover Perry Gravesend Miss Read Ramsgate Sandwich Haven William Goodwin Broad-stairs Sir John Fielding Deal Prestotti London Chithefer Sussex Garrat Petworth Coffie Gaerat Bury Duke of Grafton Suffolk Bunbury

Ship News May 12 Winds and Arrivals at Plymouth Downs

Deal May 12 ships Elizabeth Williams bound for Dublin and Nelly Johnston for Venice came down and failed remain in the Downs. Three ships bound Eastward with wind northeast. Rowley Hagan from St Biu arrived at Plymouth Jupiter Dicks from Limerick and Craig from New York at ditto Three Brothers Falientine from Rotterdam at Salcombe Mercury Freud from Grenades at Brito Matle Gregory from Rotterdam at Portsmouth Reffin Merchant Clarka from Lisbon at South Carolina Hope Cafey from Ostend at North Carolina

Deal Elizabeth Williams Dublin Nelly Johnston Venice Downs Rowley Hagan St. Biu Plymouth Jupiter Limerick Ditto New-York Craig New York Falientine Rotterdam

London Levee and Court at St James s in Royal Week

London report details a levee at St James s followed by a Privy Council gathering. Royal introductions include De Grey and Bentick family members with presentations to the Prince and Princess of Wales. The narrative also notes foreign visitors, parliamentary bills, court ceremonies, and royal gifts from the Duke of Gloucester and the Pope’s gifts arriving at the Custom House.

St. James’s De.Grey St. Jamies’s Bentick Count Bentick Holland St James’s Baron de Bean Privy Council Cockpit Duke of Gloucester Prince of Wales Italy England the Duke of Gloucester House of Peers James Scott, Esq George Stretton Scotland Gol. Cotts House of Commons Great Britain Ireland Houses of Lords and Commons Church of England House of Lords de Mic-Fane George Prescon Riga Mary Horley Select Committee Prefeai Lord Mansfield de Grey Court of Common Pleas Yeepday Thomas Kempe Wilmot Vaughan Homas Walker Bay of the Court of Chancery Court of Common Lincoln’s-iut Hall Vaughan Walker 2D Regiment of Dragoons Queen’s Horse Grenadier Guards Whitehall Black-heath Kew Sion College St. Alphage Church Mr.Blakiston Court of Common -Council Ladbroke Alsop Stephenson Turner Crosby Halifax Shakespear Hare Gilbert Newmarket Duke of Grafton Duke of Athcaster Marquis of Rockingham Lord Bolingbroke Lord Grosvenor O’kelly New York Lake Michigan Luttrell Mermaid Hackney Middlesex Freeholders Luttrel

The Orphan’s Cry and the Vengeful Bar

Fragmentary verse laments vanity and violence among the powerful. Images of gilded chariots, dancing vices, and haunted fears loom as spectres threaten the rich and the rapacious. The speaker calls attention to wounded hearts, frightened minds, and inevitable judgment before PORTIUS at a symbolic bar.

Portius

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