Public Ledger in London, Middlesex

Admiralty Orders for Deserters and Half Pay Notices

Navy officials issue command to the Assistance crew to join the Monarch at Sea Reach near Gravefind or forfeit wages and face desertion charges. Treasury warns officers to collect January 1759 half pay at Broad Street from July 7, with attestations and pension certificates. separate notices invite tenders for prisoner provisions and announce a Boston fire relief subscription update. Also includes letters about misrouted Hampstead mail, ransom accounts for the brigantine Prince of Wales, and public sales of ships and cargo at Lloyd’s and Garrick’s coffee houses.