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Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jan 05, 1761

Page

2

Maritime dispatches recount privateer captures and chase

Admiralty notices dated January report British sloops Carcass and Bonetta pursuing a French snow privateer named Du Guay Tronin, ten guns and fifty-two men, off St Malo. Anson cutter seized another French privateer of ten guns and fifty-four men from Dunkirk. Diligence, Captain Osborn, reports capturing a six gun sixty men privateer off Cape Barfleur. Ketzon, Captain Ourty, pursued a brig and a snow off Start, capturing the snow cartel from Quebec and the Grivois, a ten gun privateer from St Maloes, after it had been at Cherbourg three days.

Admiralty Office Fetter Grit Paft St. Malo Dunkirk Havre Osborn Diligence Cape Barfleur St. Maloes Ourty Quebec Cherburg

London News and Naval Orders From the Admiralty

Reports on public notices for the Public Ledger, naval orders to cruise 150 to 200 leagues westward, ships lost or taken near Virginia and York, weather and merchant movements, port arrivals at Gravesend and Ostend, and various royal and legal notices with deaths, marriages, and local incidents.

Groyne Ireland Richards Alexander Virginia Prince Irederick Wheldon London Mouton Lisbon Madeira Barbadoes Hall Gravesend Nils Tornland Ostend Unity Thompson Halifax St. Maboel William and John Cunningham Seville Edinburgh Murray Clyde Jamaica Johanna Shields Quebec Rochelle St. Isabella, Morris, From Cadiz; the Margaret and Mary, M ‘Carty Oporto Preston M‘faden Dublin Xavier John Baptist Joze Roiz Hifferon Corke Marn Bett Thomson Ritchie Ramage Brice Grindley Leith Harwich Union Strahan South Carolina Downs

Provisions for Sick Seamen and POWs Offered for 12 Months

The Office for Sick and Wounded Seamen and for Exchanging Prisoners of War announces readiness on Friday the 16th infant 1761 to receive sealed terms from those able to supply the sick and wounded seamen and Marines at Haflar and Forton Hospital with bread beef mutton fresh and salt batter oatmeal wood candles and coal. Interested parties may apply to the Secretary or Mrs Trotman, steward, for further details.

Hanoverian Princess Augusta Prince William Prince Henry Chapel Royal Jenner Earl of Cardigan Lord Henley Lincoln’s Inn Count de St. Germain France Denmark Versailles Aix-la-Chapelle Duffeldorp Arnheim Thither Leipfic Prussia Saxony Calais Yver East Indies S Mall George Saville Gream Halifax Leeds Smithfield Sussex London Mr. Higginbotham Bishopsgate Street Botolph Tane Bell-yard Temple-bar Temple Bar Notte Haflar and Forton Mra Trotman

City to re receive proposals for Blackfriars Bridge works

Guildhall dated January 1 1761 announces a meeting on January 13 at four o clock to receive proposals for Masonry and Carpenter works for the Blackfriars Bridge. Surveyor Robert Mylne will oversee plans, sections and elevations with daily office attendance to print material and work specifications. Contracts paid by admeasurement require timely completion and contractor security.

Navy Office His Majesty’s Navy His Majesty Deptford Guildhall Mafons and Carpenters Black Friars Stairs Committee of Common Council Robert Mylne Black Friars Taco Agres Bo

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