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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 19, 1761
Page
2
Reports from Lisbon to Portsmouth describe merchant ships bound for Dublin and Bayonne, British privateers, and Royal Navy actions including Argo’s prize captures. Letters recount political alarms in Europe, alliance shifts, and plans for Belleisle operations. Local incidents include accidents, a library society vote, and a stagecoach death near Oxford.
A report notes suspicions of theft involving Elizabeth Petersen and Elizabeth Barretts lodging thefts at Newgate. Also listed are Middlesex prisoners moved to Newgate for sessions. Several marriages are recorded including John Mathias Wagulin and Mrs Frances Owen and Charles Gardiner and Miss Halford. Deaths include Mr. Hunter, Mr. North, Mrs. Bearsley, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Sheppard, Mr. Shingles, and Samuel Lefingham with bequests to St. Thomas’s Hospital and Westminster Abbey monument plans. A political plea extols peace terms under King George III and urges a durable 99 year European peace with no new taxes. Jacob Henriques, born 1685, signs.
Advertisement offers Jamaica Rum and brandy by the piece of Puncheon with prices per gallon and per quart, including Arrack, direct to Charles Wenman at the Royal Exchange. Delivery available near Fown, samples at the Punch House North Gate. Payments in advance. wines, casks, bottles to be paid for with return allowance.
Public notice announces that Peter Braniff offers to destroy buggs and bedstead items at the Three Flying Fish in Union Court Holborn opposite St Andrews Church. Advises verification at the British Lying-inHospital and City Hospital. States longer trials possible with twelve months time and warns against counterfeits.
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