Privateer trouble and maritime dispatches reach Falmouth
Reports from March describe a Bayonne privateer with 20 guns ransoming near 25001. and a Beagle from Philadelphia arriving Whitehaven after five weeks. Observations note other ships, naval movements, prize exchanges, and a dangerous encounter at Tarifa with Mahon pirates.
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Bayonne
Falmouth
New York
Beotle
Dawson
Philadelphia
Whitehaven
Holyhead
Dublin
Duke
Dillon
Bristol Fire Fatalities and Post Office Notices
An accident report details a couple crushed in a chaise collapse after a fatal blaze at a Bristol house owned by a late schoolmaster, with an ensuing funeral attended by many parishioners and a monument planned. Other notes mention drownings at Downton and near St Martin's, a marriage at a dockyard, and a long list of post office addressees and anti indecency advertisements urging reform to protect families and youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Lurgan
Armagh
William Miller
Monaghan
Col. Crawford
Royal Volunteers
Shields
Cadiz
Henry Dawkins
James Dawkins
Hindon
Southampton
Swymmer
Thomas Worsley
Waters
Pyle
Lymington
Willis
Northstoneham
Newcastle
Staffordshire
Handley-Green
John Morton
Randle Wilbraham
Elgrs
Kippington
Sevenoaks
Kent
Thomas
Farnaby
Bart
Ennight
Lees
Haydon-bridge
Northumberland
Simon Dryden
Roholt
Sealand
John Ernest Junge
Hamburgh
Stafford
Joseph Wright
Thomas Brown
Edward Shaw
Obadiah Wood
Thomas Wood
Mr. Oldwall
Chaddesley-Corbett
John Pagett
William Clark
Shrewsbury
Thomas Kerby
Samuel Bolton
Upton
Shifnal
Edward Robison
John Cleaton
Richard Child
Thomas Sankey
Clenton
Child
Ralph Carr and Co
Milton
Naylor
Morpéth
Bath
Lampbert
Marthfeld
Lansdown
Mr. Lampbert
Bristol
Mr. Jones
Eck
Salisoury
Latt Ann Fulford
Downton
White of
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Trenn
Feavey
Venice
Gibraltar
Ceuta
Tarifa
Tariffa
Portsmouth
Jamaica
Oporto
St. Helen’s
Spithead
Vibrant Pieterin
Saloe
Elizabeth Margaretta
Cornelius Jetlis Tromp
Newark
Holbourn
Lords of Appeal
Whitehall
Amsterdam
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Woolwich
Germany
Royal Exchange
Lord Ancram
Westminster Bridge
Gravesend
Marquis of Granby
Robert Henley
Lord Henley
Baron Henley
Grange
Burnham
France
Wenmak
Nore
Admiralty
Newgate
County of Surry
Kingston Upon Thames
Justice Denison
Justice Foster
Dobney
Fleet-market
Bridges
Carey Street
Drury Lane
Covent Garden
Younghall
Good Intent
John Berger
Bilboa
Spain
Waterford
Rochelle
Hague
Great Britain
Prussia
Russia
Breda
Chine
St. Malo’s
Christopher
Sarah
Figuera
Poole
Bufe
Virginia
London
Liverpool
Glasgow
Cary
Plymouth
Portmouth
Mr. Reid
His Majesty’s
Charlotta Corbett
Tate
Lombard-street
Barralet
Francis Marge Levy Hyam Runkell
Joseph Berenk
Meunier
Alexander M‘grah
Francis Manuell de Lorido
Lorenzo Garodie
Mary Meneir
Lene Marc
Orpheuze
Jean Respinger
Hern Peter Abeny
Martin Pauell
John Geo
Esq. and Co
Wardo
Edmund Muzzey
Moses Hyman
da L. Pie Jonffroud
Tofslett
Andrew Holm
Samuel Raymond
Diego Semagh
Pietro Barlame
Johann Pieter Kuiper
Gaetano Franchini
Diogene Vallette Monf
Luderio Roter
Sig
Alexander Simoni
Bartholomew Roede
Barshan
Aducat
John Bailey
Francisco Aluas Ventebai
Antonio da Carla Manoell
Boreira de Souza
Antonio Piros Dos Santos
Fernandes Alberia Pedro Anlo Monti
Labor Eutebio
Jose Manoell de Oliveira Meffs
Mawzels
Redm
Lanagan
James Rofe
William Sudell
James Wetherell
Mary Rogers
Robert Hall
John Alexander
Manoell
Joana Estevo Gomes
Marido Joze
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