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Newspaper

Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Sep 04, 1761

Page

2

Shipping News and Court Highlights From Spithead and Vienna

Reports from Plymouth and Spithead describe ships like the St. Joseph and St. Anthony from Trieste and the Sage man of war from St. Domingo arriving, with the Peace from the Canaries bringing nearly 100,000 dollars in specie. Notes on royal review, hunts, and levees at St James's, with repairs planned to Parliament areas. Vienna dispatches mention tensions between Laudohn and Buttarlin, plans to attack Breslau, and political chatter on British negotiations and potential recall of ministers Buffy and Stanley.

St. Joseph St. Anthony Mayr Trieste Downs St. Domingo Orient Canaries Plymouth Taft Atzon Portsmouth Spithead Torrington Belleisle Launceston Plymouth-yard Needles St. Helens Muffy Anu Okewise Auste Sneerness Chatham Ocean Bienheim Revenge Horse Guards Hyde Park Huntingdon Norfolk Cheshire Duke of Devonshire Houshels Chapel Royal St. James’s Mons Buffy Pitt Prussia Vienna Laudohn Totleben Breslau Schweidnitz Neiss Landoho Marshal de Buttarlin London Keith Petersburgh Paris Court of London Stanley England Tapis

Spain and France navies threaten Gibraltar amid memory of Grimaldi

The Daily Register reports on strategic delays over Gibraltar with Spain facing a French-backed loan of 14,606,000 livres, while the Marquis de Grimaldi allegedly presents a memorial. Private letters from Hanbigh suggest no fear from the Swedish army due to divisions among generals. European court intrigues unfold as France presses Danish ministers, and local London notices record crimes, appointments, and obituaries including ship Purser and bank clerk changes.

Spain France Gibraltar Marquis de Grimaldi Hanbigh d’Ogier England Rtthon Francfort Northumberland Fenchurch Eet Kutt India Company Woodstreet Compter Old Street William Carter Falmouth Allgood Princess Royal Thomas Tovey Intoavendish Square Mr. Wicks Panton Street Leicester Fields Buspels Bottolph-lane Ks Hatton Princcalliér Francis Lintty Barnard Weardour-street Soho Henry Martell Bloomsbury-square Duport Bewdley Devonshire Jacob Wright Cambridgeshire Franklin Anchor-Smith Rotherhithe Waton Chatham Hume and Dailey Maidstone Brompton Smith His Majesty Boston Faly Farley Quebeck London Quebec Hliifax Merremichi Jediak Pegenouch Mickmack

Laughing Cure of the Spleen at George Inn Yard

Dr. Shuter, claiming ancient approval, reopens his warehouse in West Smithfield George Inn Yard to offer a laughing cure for splenetic people. He promises a safe, easy, and pleasant operation to lift dullness and low spirits among his countrymen.

Shuter Ireland George Inn-Yard West- Smithfield

The i Air Bride or The Unexpected Event at Yates Grand Booth

A droll performance at YATES's Grand Theatrical Booth in the Greyhound Inn Yard during Bartholomew Fair. The show features The British Tar's Triumph over Monat with a curious procession, songs, and Mr Foote's Epilogue by Lilliputian Squintuati, plus a Jamaica Rum sale and proclamations about public offices and Westminster safety measures.

FCWN Yates Greyhound Inn Monat Mr.Foote Phanomenon Lilliputian Squintuati

Navy Office Notice on Ship Freight Proposals at Morning

The Navy Office announces that on Monday the 7th at eleven in the morning they will receive proposals from parties able to provide a ship on freight to carry May and other stores to Gibraltar. The notice lists dates Sept 3 1764 and Sept 3 1761 with related financial and exchequer details for navy bills, victualling funds, and payments to billholders. The text references Exchequer Bills, interest cessation, and receipts for September accounts.

Navy-Office His Majesty’s Navy Assilant Gibraltar Navy Office N. B His Majesty N.B

Provisions and Prisoner of War Tenders 1761 Notice

The Commissioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen announce sealed tenders will be received on Sep 16 and Sep 18 for twelve months provisions including beer mutton bread and beef for Hospital and Prisoner of War use at Plymouth Exeter and related sites. Further particulars via the Secretary or agents. Also notice of a Dog Heads buoy and a Golden Ball advertisement in Temple Bar and shaving goods from Daniel Cudworth.

Royal Hospital Plymouth Hornbly Exeter Faid Limbrey Trinity House London Winterton Mill Castor Church Temple Bar Daniel Cudworth Cudworth Be&t

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