Treason Charge Follows Assault on Woman at Bow Street
Yesterday evening S Howell faced Bow Street Justice for assaulting and wounding M Clark with attempted murder in a domestic dispute. The prisoner had lived with the woman and their child, later expelled her, then wounded her with a clasp knife claiming gallows fate. Surgeons said the woman’s life hung in the balance as Howell confessed the act was unprovoked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. T.crossfield
S. Howell
Justice Bond
Bow-street
M. Clark
London Gazette notices of trades and shipowners
From the London Gazette: lists of individuals by trade and residence including Palfreymart of Manchester a cotton manufacturer and others such as Evans at Birts and Morton Worcester bookseller at the Upper George West Gate Gloucester Stapley Speldhurst Kent butcher and various tradesmen. also mentions military establishment numbers, a Cherokee chief named Bowler, ship arrivals and sea news, and local crime and weather notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Palfreymart
Manchester
Cotton “Manufacurer
Spread Eagle
Madchetten
J. Evans
Birts
Morton
Worcester
Upper George
West Gate
Gloucester
T. Brown
Chesterfield
Derby
Mercht
Red Lion
Alfreton
Loy W. Usher
Bowling-Greenslane
Clerkenwell
Guildhall
C. Stapley
Speldhurst
Kent
Butcher
Guildhal
Prize Taken Aboard Ship Nelson’s Nelson’s Ship News
The Alexander of 74 guns, detached for intelligence, seized a valuable prize laden with silk. Lord Bridport arrives at Torbay after a nine week cruise with Royal George Glory Atlas Barfleur and Impetueux. Fleet movements include Gardiner, Urbant, and Bristow actions. Portmouth and Spithead report convoy sailings and refits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
Nelson
Portmouth
Newfoundland
Agincourt
Hornet
Downs
Atlas
Torbay
Victual
Drifted and combat at sea near Mac Tinico message
An 18th century naval report describes St Tomas on the Orowo river in South America as a convoy bound for the Baltic. It recounts a naval engagement on January 2 3 between the George and two enemy vessels a Spanish cutter and a schooner with heavy losses including Lascelles and Alexander Stewarts. The letter requests release and notes humane treatment of wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senhouse
Requin
George
Mactinico
Demerara
Ceorge
Lascelles
Alex. Stewarts
Grenada
Melancholy Loss of Grosvenor Indian Man 1782
A voyage in 1782 recounts the Grosvenor’s journey along the Caffraria coast. A sailor was found slain in a gulley with his right hand severed, a grim omen from a recent affliction. The crew recalled the dying sailor’s oath, May the Devil cut off my right hand, if it be not true.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grosvenor
Caffraria
Cape of Good Hope
Lord Craven Reconsiders Leaving London During Plague
Lord Craven of Drury Lane, facing London’s plague outbreak, planned to flee with other nobles. A servant’s remark that God lives in the country moved him to stay in town, reversing his decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Craven
Drury-lane
London
Partullion
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London Gazette
W. Legg
Corfitor-ftr
Tallow-Chandler
G. Roskell
Gurflang
Lancaster
R. Breese
W. Stanton
Sunal
Durham
Thip
E. Frost
Learning
Norfolk
Dealer
S. Longstaff
Sunderland
W. Saxton
New Brentford
Cof-Ererchy
If Bying
Manhilar
Glos Mats
Fie
Motch
Ry, Sahacier
Shéptot Manéits Omerfer
Bréwer
J. Reed
St Jathes
Westminster
S. Williams
Porplander
Ma'y-fe-bore
Haberd
WW. Fielder
Bushill-row
Bowler
Ireland
Malta
Louis XIV
d’Hilliers
Kine’s-bench
Dover
Rochester-bridge
Chester
Cawlton
Mucklemoor Pit
Newcastle
Dantzick
Pillau
Amare
Sheppard
Palmer
Kino
Jones
Hanham
Gullick
Roberts
Hawkins
Mr. Jones
Ander
Baltic
Falmouth
Success
la Sensible
Gravelines
St. Tomas
Orowo
Anerica
Mich. MacKay
Harevey
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