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Newspaper

Weekly Register

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jul 11, 1798

Page

5

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.

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.

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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