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Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jun 26, 1760

Page

2

Sailed and arrived ships at ports June 23 24

The Pool paper lists sailing and arriving vessels at several ports on June 23 24 With lines recording ships such as the William Wheat ly and Hornung for Christiana and Sunderland and arrivals like the Sarah Thackston from Oporto and the True Patriot from Virginia Included are convoys bound for England and other destinations along with docked ships at Portsmouth Deal Leghorn Amsterdam and Cork and cargoes from Madeira Lisbon and Smyrna

England Portmouth Catherine Joans Carmarthen Richmond Swan Taylor Gurney London Deal Fuse Wind S. W Centaur Downs St.George Dover Arethusa Biddeford Otter Granada N. S. Pidade Uxeira Madeira Boscawen Sloper St. Kitts Oporto Leghorn Hope Skurmer Liverpool Amsterdam Juffren Anna Gerbrands Bristol Lind Gottersburgh Austin Beanbridge Street Lisbon N. S.‘de Conception Xavier St. Ubes Prussia Bemmet Barbados Guadaloupe Prince George Blake Kingston Cork Leanderoon Shardeloes Burford Smyrna Antigua M. Nadau Ddtreil France M. Dé Bompart Martinico Malaga Greyhound Gibraltar Marseilles Mahon Prince of Wales Sandifield Barcelona Arnoux America Streights Barton Chesterfield Barbary Milbank Sallee Road Green Falconer Jones Falmouth Dublin James Douglas Berwick Moore Inftant Eastbourne Hector Lawfield Weymouth Chichester Shephard Cowes Cook Jersey Newport Peters Cortroy Cowes Road Launceston Affleck Spithead Plymouth Basilisk Savage Thunderer Portsmouth Deptford Admiral Rodney Havre de Grace Denmark Copenhagen Canton China Princess Louisa Thompson North Carolina Bayonne Turner Scanderoon Tripoly Minehead Forrest Elizabeth Trim Defiance Success Ingram Rvsabella Bradhaw Thomas Sarah Jackson Britannia Gault Endeavour Coats Ruby John Ann Baldrick Neptune Blackford Prince Edward Brixley Joseph Collins Batchelor Remington Providence M‘iver

Prussian Battalion Repels Saxon Cavalry Assault

London dispatches report General Fouquet sending the Mosel regiment to Neiss. On May 31 at Topliwoda, near Nimptich and Henrichan, a 600 strong Saxon-Gotha dragoon force and 300 hussars attacked the Prussian battalion. The Prussians formed a hollow square and repelled the assault with prisoners made. Austrian losses were about thirty killed and wounded. the Austrians later withdrew from Silesia as Fouquet advanced from Lowenberg.

Breslau Inftant Fouquet Neifs Mosel Pfuhl Topliwoda Nimptich Henrichan Sax-Gotha Silberberg Magdeburgh Fune Silesia Lauddhn Franckenstein Fouqwet Lowenberg Romenau Landohn Gratzi France Hans Towné Lubeck Bremen Linbeck

Highwayman attack near Devizes described in detail

An 18th century report recounts Lord Viscount Percival's assault by a single highwayman near Devizes turnpike. The robber demanded money, Percival handed over thirteen guineas then offered a pistol, sparking a pistol duel that the highwayman fled from on foot. The narrative includes coin and weapon details, plus other scattered items from the same era.

Percival Bath Devizes Turnpike Devizes William Brander London Col. Hale Bishop Gate Coventry

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