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Newspaper

Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 26, 1761

Page

2

Battered Atlantic dispatches and naval actions abroad

The issue reports naval prizes and troop movements around Portsa or, Belleisle and Gibraltar. Merchants and traders are noted in various ports including Jamaica, St Malo, Alicant, Norway, Virginia, and Leith. Privateers and convoys, ships of the line, and coastal skirmishes shape a tense maritime picture.

Hopewell Pollin Exeter Woolwich Mackrel Gravesend Thomas Morris Sharp Rogan Gibraltar Eleanor Ratchfold Jamaica Neptune Harrison St. Malo’s Gibson Malaga Parthce Norway John Outram Virginia Martha Miller Alicant

Duel After Election Dispute Leaves Man Dead in Cork

A report from Cork dated May 11 describes a political dispute turning violent. A duel between two gentlemen was decided over an election quarrel. One man was shot in the left breast and died about an hour later. The account also notes a cobbler’s family receiving charitable aid following the incident.

Howe Belleisle Portsmouth Palais Woolwich Mars Rimmer Jamaica Liverpool Aurora Bayonne Philadelphia St. Sebastian’s Therftrift Flanders Marseilles Genoa Levant Gibraltar Whitehaven John Smith Riga Juan de Melida Bilboa Haple St. Andero C. Ogle Eagle Cook Dublin St. Sebastian’s Monte Rico Portugal Saunders Liss Majesty Bedford Deane Plymouth Pitt Garriott Cowes South Carolina Narcissa Wingate Piscataqua Polly Betley Muir London Lisbon Harrietta Rains Seahorse Ogilvie George Nancy Canaries Diamond Stock Lond Leghorn Christian Stanley Hitéhaven Amterdam Sally Turner Gottenburgh Montrose Stonehouse Cape Fear Whitby Marquis of Granby Guadalupe England Berwick Edinburgh Holy Island Farn Islands Leith Road House of Austria Germany House of Mons Buffy Suffolk-street Duke of York Society of Arts Scien ‘Ces Earl of Rothes Scotland Duke “of Dévonshire Bath Bruton-street Berkeley Hill-street Southgate Sp. Paul’s Church Tothill Fields Marygold Court Justice Fielding John Way Salkeil Gufthart General Hospital Wilson St. John’s College, Cambridge Duke of Portland Smalridge Bothal Northumberland St. Asaph Salisbury Wing Rutland Coleman Leicester Sharpe Richard Sharpe Arnold Wells Gun Gun- Latt Brayfield Williams Skinner Street Gallife New Inncourt Shoreditch Mr. Williams St. Dunstan's Wiliam Pemble Greenwich Miss Belfour Ashford Staines Middlesex Peter Storer Highgate Jaf Bell-Savaze-yard Lurgate-hill Wycherley Robert Parker Moorfields William Watts Dowgate Abraham Ashley Harp-alley Fleet-ditch Tisdwald Dumfries Alexander Robertson Bristol Haythorrie St. Michael’s-hill Howorth Grant Farrier Whittock Cooper Castle-street New Romney John Edward Wilson Mr. Scott Wotton Northampton Llantyfilio Denbighshire Thomas Jones Cork Sir John Freke Esquire Newnham Cobler John Almos

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