Siege of Bender and Genoese Complaints Reach Diet
Dispatches report Ruffians lifting the siege of Bender after a failed assault on the 14th and heavy losses from a mine. Genoese residents accuse their governor of despotism in San Remo, presenting 2500 signatures to Parliament. Montreal and Niger ships arrive from Gibraltar as English ships celebrate Coronation Day and prepare for Levant service. Police warnings on plague travel from Dantzig and Rowen traders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danzick
Bender
Paris
San Remo
San Repians
Fodoin
Leghorn
Montreal
Zoth
Gibraltar
London
Montréal
Niger
Edgar
Levant
Dantzig
Poland
Rowen
Edinburgh Regiment Orders for 1 Minute Warning
An Edinburgh cantonment reports orders for the army to be ready to march at a minute’s notice. Glasgow quarte r officers reportedly receive similar orders. The letter also notes cambrick manufacture progress in Glasgow challenging foreign import levels. Local Portsmouth mentions fire damage estimates and cost figures, discussing government losses and warehouse destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Portsmouth
Impressed man discharged after Guildhall hearing
London report states Mr Wilkes at Guildhall presiding over a press warrant case. An impressed man appeared on the warrant and was discharged. The warrant is copied with the official order dated October 12 1770, issued by the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Wilkes
Guildhall
Great Britain and Ireland
Mabe
Admiralty
Phil
Stephens
Impressed seaman case and Admiralty warrant text
The document records impressment actions under Admiralty warrants dated October 1770, naming officers and local officials, and detailing the travel limits and expenses for impressed sailors. It notes a discharge for a man named Shine after the alderman found the impressing illegal, plus related London and port authorities actions and naval planning items including plague concerns in Hamburgh and fleet provisioning.
Scattered Old News and Shifting Appointments
Fragmented report recounts political talk on Lord Granby and ministerial circles, military promotions including Major Geil Carpenter to colonel of dragoons and Archibald Patoun as Director of the Ordnance, and various local notices from Kent to London with ship quarantine and court proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stowe
George
Gueaviley
Bolton Street
Earl
Chathiant
Hayes
Norfolk
St. James
Granby
Circeo
Geil
Carpenter
4Th Regiment of Dragoons
Conway
William Augustus
Regiment of Dragoons
Ireland
Sarpenter
Archibald
Patoun
Ordnance
Baside
Matthew Dixon
Patonn
George: Hill
Compitignere of
Court. of Chancery
Henry Wykes
George Fletcher
Blaisingbury
Kent
Hibernia
Woods
Trieste
Standgate- Creek
Quintaintine
William
Queen Anne
George I
Orr: 25 wine West WoR fips as per laft
Orr reports 25 wine shipments from West Wor fips area, with details unclear due to OCR corruption. Authorities reference county fips and local trade records, noting potential discrepancies. Further verification required to confirm goods, dates, and involved entities.
Lottery price and share details from old notice
A fragmented 18th or 19th century lottery notice outlines shares, halves, quarters and fractions with prices like £0.48, noting no prize agreement and that tickets are sold at a government office. It references locations in London Hampshire Suffolk and mentions dates and unpaid prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hampshire
Suffolk
A&t
Selling shares in the Varie here by Jones
Public notice of sale by Jones of shares in the Varie here in Halves Quarters Eighths Thirty seconds and Sixty fourths at Nos 45 Pope s Alley 13 Alley and Garraway s Coffee House vicinity with current prices and state of market Tickets to be supplied at Jonathan s Grand Market location indicating share states Harvest and price progression through fractions including quarters eighths sixteenths thirty seconds and sixty fourths
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eeroy Og Aickg
T “Arc
Jones
Garraway
Pope’s
Pope’s. Hext Cornhill
Jonathan
Also Mentioned on This Page
E. Hawke, Co. Spencer
Holborne
Barlow
Thomas’ Bull
Shine
Thomas Bull
Portfolien
Hamburgh
Betsey
Scott
Yarmouth
Lower Saxony
Barbary
Portmahon
Dunkirk
Spain
Dieppe
Boulogné
Cripplegate
Francis Holborne
Batt
Great Britain
Charles Knowles
Bart
Russia
Princess Dowager of Wales
Harwich
Helvoetfluys
Carlton
Hoffe
Duke of Gloucester
Old Bailey
Henry Jones
Abingdon
Northampton
Bartholomew Langley
Knighthridge
James
Tompion
Matthew Wight
Bithopsgate Street
Bathurt
Newgate
Peice
Edoes Harves i
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