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Public Ledger in London, Middlesex

21 Dec 1761

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Public Ledger

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London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 21, 1761

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2

Privateer Actions and Naval News From Portsmouth Port

Reports from Portsmouth and Plymouth describe French privateer actions off Tresor and Mahon, captures near Brest, and ships sent to the West Indies. Observations include Dutch and British vessels, crews, and the fates of mutinous or captured ships, with naval deployments and prison sentences for a captain.

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S. Domingo Jamaica Bersey George Berry Matster Cowes Canaries Morlaix Brest Jenkins Leghorn Newfoundland Mahon Raadzell Genoa London Messina Downs Royal Duke Tovery West Indies Houghton Newton Walpole Fenner Hardwick Sampson East India Company Gravesend Portsmouth Spithead Guernsey Commodore Young France Cornelia le Venin de Freeze Bourdeaux Amsterdam Amherst Duncan Virginia Brilliant Logie Stafford Ditchburn Plymouth S Taylor Burford Gambier Duke Hester King Belleiffle Keppel Germany Royal Navy Scotland Ireland Battile Paris Chatelet M. Bigot Canada M. Peau Aid Major Quebec M. Vanik The Marine Montreal Spain Elector Palatine Manheim Duffeldorp Hamburgh Count de Raas
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Royal Highs and London Notices Across England

A mixed royal and local news digest reports on a fund for distressed Prussians aided by clergy in London, a court martial for a dragoonsman’s horse, highwayman incidents near Oxford and Hampstead, noble births, marriages, and deaths in Cornwall and Marybone. American hurricane impacts off North Carolina coast, camp updates near Fort Prince George, and casualty reports from Bath and Chatham. Includes notices of Indian affairs chief Edmond Atkin’s death and medicinal ads for Radcliffe Elixir with local cures.

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Wegigbuth Duke of Aliemal Rases Fan Rsimer Willitefield Zigenhagen St. Alban’s Hampstead Mimms Cirencester Abingdon Lord Cantalupe Major Montellier Edwards Whitechapel Church Pennant Blowbladder-street Germany Capt Stuart Earl of Murray Benda Martin E Q Commissioners of Excise Charles Town North Carolina Cape Pear River Philadelphia Fort Johnson S. B Brunswick Cape Bear River Wilmington New-York Jamaica Christopher Miller Hood Cape Fear Bar Fort Prince George Thomson Thomas Bosher Charles Muffell John Dargan Great Warriour,&c Col. Grant Middle Settlements Little Carpenter, &c Twelve Mile Roth Thadday
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Navy Office Offers Elm Beech Ash Oak Headr Wedges Contract

Navy Office invites proposals from all who will supply his Majesty's Yard at Portsmouth with head wedges of Elm Beech Ash or Oak. Specifications: three fourths Ash or Beech, one fourth Oak or Elm. Meeting Friday at eleven to present proposals.

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Navy Office His Majesty’s Navy Nettie Portsmouth
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Notice to treat for Oxen and Hogs for Sea Store

Victualling Office issues notice that on Monday the 28th instant at noon they will treat for oxen and hogs for sea store for London and Dover ports. Oxen for London must weigh at least seven hundred weight each and hogs for the said port at least one hundred weight each.

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Victualling Office His Majesty’s Navy London Dover Feid
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Demands Sought For Tartar and Shark Private Ships of War

All persons with lawful claims against the Tart ar and Shark private ships of war under Charles Fieldings late command are asked to present their accounts to the managers and leave them with Mr. John Cruickshanks in Road Lane by Wednesday the 30th inst., for examination and proof.

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Charles Fieldings John Cruickshanks Road Lane
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Darzy Raeng Wilitome Oat Fuis Granby Iobgrave Difingion Wis Earl of Hiynford Ampier Lord Sandys House of Commons Salter Charter- House St. Margaret’s Westminster London Bridge St. Magnus Church Black Friars Portland Azoysu Oeo Country News Oxford Samuel Forster Wadham College Wm. Townsend Trinity College St. Martin’s Cox Vincent Watering-tronch Woodstock Cambridge Bartholomew King’s College Mr Dorset Christ College Chamberlaine Bath Royal Duke of York Confederacy Corporation of Bristol Chatham Sheerness William Crawford Beckinghamshire Radcliffe Dicey and Co Bow Church-yard John Gilkes Sibford Goch Oxfordshire
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