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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 19, 1760
Page
2
An extended chronicle from London and Bristol details arrivals, departures, and movements of ships. It notes crews recovering health, privateer actions off Grand Combination, and numerous vessels reaching or leaving Bristol Cowes Plymouth and Jamaica ports, with dates from June to July 1760 and mentions Admiral Holmes and Coates on several ships.
The Daily Recistir of Commerce reports ships arriving Hull from Elfeneur without convoy including Nancy Ramsay Olive Branch Sally Wildboar Triton Crowfoot Lapwing Sparks Elizabeth Hawkes Britannia Richmond Richard and Joseph Harris the Friend’s Goodwill and Samuel Limley. Betty Potts arrives Plymouth from Jamaica with Britain and Boreas bound for London. Capt Potts spoke with Liverpool bound for Virginia in lat 44. The Benjamin Johnson from London and Newcastle to New York was captured June 30 by the Romame privateer off Digby head and taken to North Bergen. Lords of Appeal condemn KI Pietersen from Rotterdam to the West Indies. The Allied army news from Germany gives no word of Prince of Hesse withdrawing. milled ducats now current in Frizeland. Orders said to push Pondicherry. Tower Wharf ships loaded cloathing and stores for North America. Domestics and society notes follow including bequests, arrivals, marriages, and accidents. The Dublin and Ireland items report a murder verdict, clerical appointments, and ships and fleets movements. A curious tale of a double wedding near Golden Square ends with a priest mediating in the vestry. Two oxen escaped in St James's Park and were recaptured. The parliament prorogues and ships Depart for Quiberon Bay. A letter to the editor laments printed poems and voices a moral about leaves and autumn.
An advertisement for a new quarto edition priced twelve shillings bound in calf with gilt lettering. The work translated from French covers nations and sovereignty, duties of states, government, commerce, war, treaties, neutrality, and the rights of ambassadors and peace. Printed for Newbery and others.
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