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Voyage of a 400 ton French prize and Lisbon news
A letter from Capt Archibald Kenned reports capturing a Bordeaux bound French ship of 400 tons with 24 guns and 170 men, damaged after engagement with the Blonde. It covers Lisbon gale damage, arrivals and departures of various ships, and military and political notes including Transylvania events and Parliament elections.
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Archibald Kenned
Lisbon
Bordeaux
St. Domingo
Cadiz
Leonidas
Tomlinson
London
St. Antonio
Eustatia
Cape Finisterre
Nancy
Reddick
Madeira
Solberge
Sct. Croix
Copenhagen
Dove
Calvin
Cork
Providence
Bodkin
Limerick
Bristol
Manchester
Dickerson
Bermuda
Alexander
Reid
Littleton
Hore
Clifton
Whitehaven
Prince George
Davis
Santa Cruz
Plymouth
Elizabeth
Douglas
Virginia
Dover
Gosport
Braganza
Hart
Charlotte
Hill
Brown
Colchester
Henrietta
Gardiner
Adventure
Ayres
Wolfe
Hull
Bartlett
Botton
General Amherst
New Orleans
Dieppe
Alcide
Severnight
Cape Clear
Prince Stadtholder
Appleby
Philip Honeywood
John Stanwix
Breconshire
Thomas Morgan
Gerard Napier
Tho
Coventry
Cornwall County
John St. Aubyn
James Buler
Wycombe
Fitz Maurice
Rob. Waller
Clackmannan
Scotland
James Abercromby
Dunadich
Henry Fox
Eliab Harvey
Edinburgh
Alex. Gilmour
Eye Borough
Charles Cornwallis
Henry Cornwallis
Great Grimsby
Henry Knight
John Mellith
Keenerigm Stewarty
John
Theatre Royal
Drury Lane
Justice
Wilmot
Court of Chancery
Sarah Lenox
Countess
Huntingdon
Bath
Clive
John Walsh
Worcester
Ireland
Newcastle
Shields
Guan
Germany
Gibraltar
Spain
Africa
Monte Christi
Septimus Robinson
John Cullen
Armstrong’s
St. John Jeffreys
Blayney’s
Kingdom of Ireland
Norfolk
Johnson
Lochness
Tyburn
Chelmsford
Winchester