Letter to Sir Sidney on public repentance and justice
A long 1779 letter to Sir Sidney accuses him of delinquency in a high profile case, urging private contrition or public remorse. The writer presses for accountability, cites trials and moral duty, and questions governance and immunity. References passim to justice, vengeance, and public opinion, with classical allusions and admonitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaul
Oth
Rome
Britain
Byron
Baltimore
Fandhine
Herzayter
Ian
Crokiep
Kinga
Fragmented 18th century reminiscences and dispatches
The excerpt mixes scattered notes on European diplomacy with naval, militia, and trade measures. It mentions Russian and Prussian ambassadors, Lisbon fortifications on the Tagus, Philadelphia merchants, a new Prince of Wales’s Fuzileers regiment, militia orders for Westminster, and convoys for Levant and American trades. It also reports a Bellisle quarantine lazaretto, new city liveries, and a mysterious Newfoundland shipwreck with a sole survivor.
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Phe
Rufiida
Bit
Junto
Lisbon
Fomte
Béit’ Engineers
France
Lifdn
Tagus
Portugal
Philadelphia
Britain
Bostonians
Board of Trade
Privy-council
Great Britain
Scotland
Dublin
Prince of Wales
City and Liberty of
Westminster
East India Company
Sheerness
Channel
Leeward Islands
Geary
Board of Admiralty
Levant
American
Carolina
Guernsey
Bellisle
Mr. Whitfield
Uni
Newfoundland
Edward
Newlo
Fragmentary 19th century dispatches reference foreign agents and private letters
A garbled morning report mentions Broadys Reits and officials seeking entry amid references to East and forge, alongside a woman dying in Bell Alle. Private letters hint at French and Spanish ministers and two stone units amid General entanglements with Great Britain.
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Broady
Bacci
Regia
Bell
H Ie
Mitters
Great Britain
Portsmouth Port Arrival Descriptions From Aged Logs
Fragmentary shipping notes recount vessels arriving at Portsmouth and the Plymouth dockyard. Names include Cleveland Hamburg Pearl Boymiany Royal Britain Wilfony Petersburg Hood Halifax 74 gun ships Plymouth Hope Frize Phoenix 40 guns Otter sloop and nfon cutter.
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Portsmouth
Cleveland
Royal Britain
Wilfony
Petersburg
Fanna Phillipina
Sva
Stutland Bay
Nfon
Theatrical Intelligence at Drury Lane and Covent Garden
Theatrical intelligence notes a Drury Lane program featuring The Stratagem with Archer King Aimwell Scrub Parsons Dorinda Reddith Cherry Mills Pope and Mrs Sollenby plus a young gentlewoman elopement. At Covent Garden Lionel Clarifa with Mattocks Shuter and Mrs Mattocks and the author.
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Drury Lane
Mattocks
Col. Oldboy
Shuter
Clariffay
Fragmentary Notes on Letters and Timing
The readable fragment mentions Letters NT and Mr Yo dent as acceptable, with instruction to focus only on the point of time. It notes a publication delay, saying they came too late for this day’s paper, and references Saturday’s issue being promised.
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Yo Dent
Lord Nori
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