Port News Naval Movements From Plymouth and Deal
Plymouth and Deal report sailing and arrival of ships bound for Portsmouth London Guernsey Malaga and Plymouth. Vessels named include the Porrington man of war the Thomas and Mary the Mary Jemima and the Hawke with outward bound ships. Transport and prize ships noted along with arrivals from Malaga Lisbon Philadelphia and Guadaloupe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Yetterday
Porrington
Rade
Portsmouth
Lamb
Skinner
London
Thomas and Mary
Hilstone
Brighthelmstone
Malaga
Rnna Catherina
Meike
Dram
Southampton
Priaulx
Guernsey
Salamander
William and Thomas
Lander
Poole
Broad
Hawke
Wuillfon
Madeira
Gravesend
Mary
Ann
Jordan
Lisbon
Endeavour
Benn
Amherst
Peterson
Esther
Young
Virginia
Philadelphia Packet
Budden
Philadelphia
Scorpion
Beart
Guadaloupe
Naval action near Vigo defeats French force at Lisbon
Extraordinary letter from Lisbon records a British squadron pursuing three French ships near Vigo. Hermione, Malicieuse frigates and Courageux 74 fought Brilliant and Bellona. Courageux and prize crews suffer heavy losses. Bellona and Brilliant damaged. Prize indigo cargo valued, ships to be refitted, ransomers listed. Lisbon lists British warships present and a privateer capture from South Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
Bellona
Brilliant
Vigo
Hermione
Courageux
St. Domingo
Briliant
Marlborough
Coventry
England
North America
His
Robert Faulkner
Neptune
Redyard
New London
Barbadoes
William Bort
Brotherhood
Coffin
Piféataqua
Antigua
Samuel Hartford
Zcol
von Warner
Pilcataqua
Endeavour
Anderson
Newport
Rhode Island
Madeira
Jona Chace
Henry Bower
Swansey
Bay
Tre Granby
Appower
Philadelphia
Jamaica
John Story
Waling and Morris
Colonel Clive
Bonquest
London
Trinder and Green
Wm. Hooper
Archibald M‘millan
Virginia
Glasgow
John Duncan
Gool
John Glasford and Co
Faulkner
Howelll
St. Florentine
Trelawney
Carpenter
le Blond
Kennedy
Loggie
Hagné
Johnson
Bambridge
Carona
Sailor ships arrive from Atlantic routes to Philadelphia and Dublin
The Dairy Regist Te Rx of Commerce and Intelligence reports multiple ships like the Phenix Micheli and the Success Nurtle arriving in Philadelphia from Londonderry and Liverpool. The Greyhound from Africa reaches Virginia, and several others reach Oporto Dublin and Plymouth. The Launceston man of war is ordered to intercept ships bound to Portugal and join the Alborough convoy. Reports mention royal and military figures, auctions, executions, and deaths, with various social updates and local incidents. American news details a 1761 Virginia-Columbia campaign with Cherokee towns burned and 15 towns plus numerous villages destroyed, over 14,750 acres of crops laid waste, and about 4,000 Cherokees displaced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding
Biddeford
Lisden
Bourdéaux
Phenix
Micheli
Londonderry
Nurtle
Liverpool
Philadelphia
Greyhound
Robe
Africa
Virginia
Treott
Jersey
Portland Road
Portugal
Lord Anson
Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburgh
Great Britain
Essex
Earl Temple
Richard Loundes
Buckinghamshire
Milward and Co
Newport Pagnel
William Courtenay
Devon
Stockport Moor
Marquis of Granby
Royal Foresters
Inglish
Wiliam
Thames
David Hatton
Lords Justices of
Ireland
Richard Ponsonby
Linnen
Province of
Connaught
Henry Brooke
Jones
Orlando Bridgman
Knocking
Shropshire
Samuel Armytage
Wakefield
City
York
Bull
Hyde
Pereiremnarsine
James Moor
Hanifon
Blackman-street
Killer
Manchester
Leigh
Batrafakane
Tipperary
Thomas Hayes
Beetle
Lyon
Leeds
Claud Nisbet
French
Queen-street
Little Tower-hill
Soate Carolina Gazette
Charles Texun
Grant
Fort Prinze George
Fort Prince George
Ettatoe Old Town
Frear
Lar
John Monro
Knight
the Royal
Barber
Campbell
Burton
Lieut
Terry
Erchoe
Middleton
Noockafee
Taflee
Nockafee
Tennafee
Laurence
Keowee
I &c
Prince George
Advice of the Old Veteran and a Remarkable Cure
A veteran warns a son about French and rogue allure and urges honest labor in England. The item then promotes a remarkable cure by Rev. Clendon of a large neck swelling, claimed to be Brhonoocele turned cancerous, cured without bloodshed. It notes Deafness and King's Evil remedies and twenty years of medicine sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Four Quarters
Joseph Thomas
Mile-End
Clendon
Lucgate-Hill
E. dc
Performance at Mr Yates Booth Praised by Great Personage
The performance at Mr Yates's Booth has drawn praise from a notable figure and many fashionable attendees. The letter describes an entertaining show featuring staged misadventures, a vivid crowd scene at Cow Lane, and a Punch magazine style promotion of Bartholomew Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillipus Tian Squintum
Foote
France
Bold Shuter
Covent~ Garden
Smithfield
P.S
Frolic
Momus
Mrs Pleasant
Comedy
Thepis
Bacchus
Apollo
Witness
D. Swift
Navy Office Seeks Proposals for Ship Freight to Gibraltar
The Navy Office announces that on Monday the 7th instant at eleven in the morning they will be ready to receive proposals from persons willing to outfit a ship for freight. The voyage would carry Mars and other stores to Gibraltar, with bidders required to attend at the stated time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy-Office
His Majesty's Navy
Gibraltar
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James Ashley
Ludgate Hill
Jeffer
N. B. Arrac
Orange Shrub
You
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Royal Hospital
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