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Middlesex Middlesex Journal

Location

Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 20, 1769

Page

3

British intrigues and Corsican aid stir fear of war

The Gazetteer notes rising diplomatic dispatches to Britain’s powers and whispers that conflict with Britain could erupt within eight months. It reports Irish, Scottish, and Danish alignments, Corsican subscriptions, and preparations for naval and land forces. Also tallies a Wells fire, maritime charity, and assorted marriages and deaths.

Great Britain B —S Seleé&T Bengal Corsica Fack Mile-End London Tavern Gazetreer Iris North America Wilkes Ireland General Paoli Boltons Philadelphia New-York Denmark France Russia Europe Sweden Copenhagen Bothnia Finland Livonia Poland Dulcot Marine Society Merchants Service Bishopsgate-street Portugal Paris England Bath Durham-yard Strand James I Scotland St. Austin’s Church Watling Street Pitts

Intelligence Extraordinary The D e of G n to wed

The D e of G n nears marriage to Miss Wthe late D f s of G n, while L d O y has already married. Lordship and Miss W y are nephew and niece to the D f s of B d, forming a curious alliance. Bloomsbury house, once famed for Partie Quarree, now showcases new virtue amid changing social games.

B—d Bloomsbury House Partie Quarree N.B Whiff Loo Bloomsbury

Unfindable List of London Traders and Directors

A continued OCR fragment lists numerous merchants, brokers, directors, and traders with obscure or undiscoverable addresses such as No. 12 Lime Street No. 58 Old Broad Street and No. 30 Fenchurch Street. It includes Bank Directors, East India Directors, linen drapers, tobacconists, warehousemen, and insurance directors, some marked as not to be heard of or fictitious. The item notes ongoing efforts to locate many individuals and notes marked continuations and unreadable entries.

Maur Griffith Wiliam Robertson Beard Wm. Stephens Packer Lime-Street Chas. Marshall Swithhens-Lane Cannon-Street Bese Hopkins Bank Dire&otr Old Broad P. Macleod Broad-Street Gil Matin Harrison New Court Switchens- Lane Cannon Street Nicholas Poole Fore-Street Moorfields Thomas Brown Fitch-Street Grahm Frank Rood-Lane Fenchurch-Street Alexi Rhind Henry Sharp Henry Spencer Old Fitch-Street Henry Fletcher Friday-Street Tho Smallwood Newcastle-Court College Hill Isaac Hughes New Broad-Street Will Ruffell Exchange Alley Cornhill Geo. Hall Irvine H&tideas Gavin Elliot Adam Wood Mark Lane Tower Street Thos Philip Fa Malcom Hamilton Lothbury Arnold Mello London Assurance Fenchurch Street Hewit John Ross Prescot Street Goodman’s Fields George Friend D. Griffin John Spencer Colepeper Joseph Barr Barcelona Nutts Thames-Street Alexander Mackintosh Wollen Draper Lombard- Street Alex Brander Lower Thames-Street John Henderson Geo. Abel Cloak-Lane College-Hill Ja. Strachan Tower-Hill Jebnee Te Factor Watling Wm. Thomson Throgmiorton Street Charles Dingley Wtalebone Lothbw Ury Sal. Swinton Coventry Street St. James’s Rob. Jones East India Clements Lane John Stephenson Scotch Yard Bush+Lane Pardoe Budge Row Wm. James Gettard Street Soho Morison Ugh Meares Ehem Briggs Self W. Briggs Waldo Bully Henry Rooke Chyitt. Puller Royal Exchange John Bell Royal Affurance Company

Lord Lieutenant visits printing-yard at Leixlip

On Monday May 13 the Lord Lieutenant visited the printing-yard of Hirpar and Cunningham at Leixlip. He observed their drawing, cutting, and printing processes and the copper-plate machine with interest and expressed satisfaction at the advancement of this linen manufacturing branch in the kingdom.

Irel AN Dublin Mesirs Hirpar Cunningham Leixflip

Died at Kelton near Bath and other 18th century items

Bristol reports the death of Henry Harrington Etq at Kelton near Bath. Assizes opened in Guildhall with capital convictions for David Thomas and Robert Slack. Norwich notes a labourer found 27 Henry VIII Sovereigns at Whitacre Burgh. Boycott aided the poor. Liverpool announces Rev. William Hunter as St Paul’s minister. Preston jail case ties to John Ashton murder and a highway shooting. A druggist mishap leads to accidental poisoning from antimony powder, but all affected recover with oil, milk, and heat.

Bristol Henry Harrington Kelton Bath Guildhall David Thomas Robert Slack Norwich Boycott Whitacre Burgh Norfolk Henry

London Gossips and Naval Dispatches from Westminster Hall

Notes from London detail a Devonshire visit of John Parker and wife to the king at St James's, naval orders to survey Senegal fortifications, and court openings before Trinity term. Reports cover the Dutchess of Buccleugh’s birth, Vienna disturbances, Bolton militia discontent, and a Glasgow merchant’s view on loyalty amid Wilkes turmoil. Also noted are fires in Leather Lane and Southwark, commodity prices at Billingsgate, and deaths and theatre notices.

Londo UN John Parker Devon St. James's Woodford Hamburgh Senegal Senegambia Trinityterin Westminster-hall Lincoln’s Inn-hall Earl of Chatham Lord Strange France Aga Austady Bolton Engheid Glasgow Watling Street America London Wilkes Lisberty George the George the Third

Arrival in Town Reveals Low Prices for Bread and Meat

Report notes residents are supplied by local butchers at seven farthings per pound for beef and five for ton. Corroborating letter claims shoppers could pay less by self-provisioning. Beef at three halfpence per pound and five farthings per pound, cod fifteen to eighteen pounds cost ninepence or tenpence, goose one shilling, turkey eighteen pence, rabbits one penny, wild fowl cheap.

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