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Ships from Jamaica and war updates fill the Downs
The article lists numerous ships arriving from Jamaica at the Downs on August 11, including the Pelling Tal bot Nancy Rooke and many others, with additional notes on ships taken by a French privateer and retaken by a warship. It also reports military movements, dockyard work at Chatham and Portsmouth, and local notices about deaths, weddings, and public orders. It mentions the Duke of Cumberland’s recovery, transports for cavalry to Germany, and the building of ships of the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guards
Jamaica
Downs
Pelling
Talbot
Nancy
Rooke
William
Watson
Prince George
Blake
Mary
Forbes
Earl of Ellingham
Bellamy
Kingston
Thomas
Peggy
Pringle
Ashred Gally
Burch
Lion
Wine
Dixon
Lady Mary
Gregg
Ftry
Carlton
Unity
Hodge
Manning
Robinson
Susannah
Clapperton
Cumberland
Drewett
Ellis
Egdon
Pitt Gally
Conner
Charming Nancy
Brewer
Halldaine
Miller
Princesla
Johnson
Elizabeth
Rathburn
Kitchen
Glean
Dispatch
Carter
Diamond
Gray
Rose
Brett
Wilson
Dalton
Henry
Richardson
Jupiter
Gibbons
Virginia
Suffolk
Stewart
Hull
Portland
Gambia
Foster
Cowes
Buffel
Crawford
Resolution
Hogg
London
Portsmouth
Lisbon
Brown
Yarmouth Roads
Bristol
Unicorn
Halifax
New York
Spain
Philadelphia
Carolina
Portmouth
N.S. da Grace St
N.S. da Grace St. Joseph, Felis Jos le Afoncece
Oporto
Franklin
Tenby
Eleanor
Cooper
Guernsey
Woollwich
Plymouth
Duke of Cumberland
Red-House
Deptford
Gravesend
Germany
His
Woolwich
University of Oxford
Kendal
Westmoreland
Col. Crawford
Westminster
Francis Maclean
Royal Highlanders
Marygalante
Allan Maclean
New-York Independent Company
Ticonderoga
Walter Haynes
Worcester
Thomas Waiteman
Richard Poole
John Paine
Fearon
Sidney College, Cambridge
Erith
Shuter
Chatham
Sheerness Yard
Chatham Hill
Cambridge
Edinburgh
Earl of Rothes
Ireland
Glasgow
Aberdeen