London News Roundup of War Talks and Ship News
A July London column reports on royal reviews for Light Volunteers and St James's Volunteers, Church of Ireland and Madras chaplain appointments, emigration protests, a captured Spanish corvette, naval pensioners, and a fire at Rats Castle. It notes Ball at Cambridge with deaths, university honors, Macclesfield Methodist tragedy, Wiltshire farm fires, and a Liverpool street accident.
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Ptahis
Perte
London
Westminster
Col. Herries
Wimbledon Common
Duke of York
Duchess of York
St. James’s Volunteers
Lord Amherst
East India Company
D. Hill
Presidency of Madras
Duke of Portland
Jordan
Bowen
Haverfordwest
Ireland
James Marriott
Hastings
J. Sanderson
Crownstreet
Westminister
Mr. Flint
Wickham
Lown
Hisself
Santa Rita
Bellona
Jamaica
Hester Clarke
St. Giles’s
Cambridge
New College Gardens
Butalas
Jermin
A. Mainwaring
P. Richardson
M. Jackson
J. Brooke
J. Hallowell
W. Ward
W. Crofts
R. C. Whaley
M. A. Jon
M. Downey
H. C. Hobart
J. Tonson
Cornwallis
KE. Cowper
H. Ryder
L. Gordon
Coupland
K. Courtenay
RK. Gibson
H. Jenner
Skrimshire
T. Lister
Macclesfield
Whitcliff Farm
Brixton Deveril
Wilts
Stourhead
Dale-street
Liverpool
North Middlesex
Barking River
Sudhu
Martindale and Fitche
St. James’s-ft
S. Affrect
J. Harris
E. Lowe
H. Galkil
H. Lowe
Cannon-street
J. Carter
G. Johnson
Highgate
R.moulford
Bristol
J. Watson
Whitehaven
Draper
W. Martin
Leicester-felds
E. Jackson
Wirksworth
Derbyshire
Grocer
Ambulance Diversion Leads to Tragic Nighttime Sinkings
A fragment notes two individuals in distress in an apparent water incident. They were carried by someone to safety initially but both disappeared in the grip of the current. Several hours passed before their bodies were recovered, underscoring the danger of the area.
La Zenodone captured off Cadiz as privateer tale unfolds
From the London Gazette July 7 1798 a letter reports the capture of the French polacre privateer La Zend done off Cadiz. Capt. Coffon commanded a 61-man crew with two fixed guns six fours and two smallers out of Cartagena after 22 days afloat but failing to take prize. Admiralty notes naval movements and the Indian Ocean convoys with ships like Henry Dandas Caledonia and Cornwallis bound for St Helena and home toward month end.
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London Gazette
Admiralty Office
Earl St. Vincent
Evan Nepean
Ville de Paris
Cadiz
Luke
Sam
Cape Palos
la Zend
Polacre
Coffon
Carthagena
India
Henry Dandas
Gardner
Caledonia
Cornwallis
Bengal
Friendship
Ardraifien
China
Bombay
Sullivan
Sir Edward Hughes
St. Helena
Madras
England
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Chatham
Sheerers
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Walsingham Packet
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Hope
Erskine
Prince Adolphus
Princess of Wales Packet
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Royal Exchange Assurance Company
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