Ship action reports wounded crew and captured vessels
A passenger account describes heroic acts aboard a vessel under fire with two ladies aiding the wounded and carts moved from magazine to deck. It lists killed and wounded, notes hull damage, and details a convoy at Spithead. Several ships are reported captured by French privateers, with crews arriving in Liverpool and Cerutina, and the Empress of Rusia foundering in a gale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M‘dowell
Mary Harley
John Leetch
Samual Hoffman
William Johmtton
William ‘Chester
W. M.kennon
Daniel Comb
D.gordon
Henry Mason
William Bagnage
John Baran
Goodwin Hill
John Brown
Spithead
Nelson
Newman
Sicily
London
Brothers
Redmayne
Liverpool
Jamaica
Scott
Ditto
Honduras
Betley
Choate
Boston
Port Mary
Packwood
New York
Hope
Nichols
Eliza
Boyd
Bahamas
Harmony
Snell
Philadelphia
Cerutina
Rusia
Jansiga
Virginia
Wanted serious tutor and assistant for academy near London
A notice seeks two serious persons for a London area academy post. One to supervise wall-boards and language study with opportunity for improvement in languages and literature. another qualified in Greek and Latin, age twenty three, with potential for a country curacy nomination. Applicants should send testimonials of religion and morals, education, and attainment in a post paid letter to R. B. at T. Gillet's, Crown Cove, Fleet Street, London. No personal visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. H
T. Gillet’s
Crown Court
Fleet-street
London
R. B
Crown Cove
Livsdon
Sermon at New Chapel for Leon Edechyich Dispensary
On Sunday at six o'clock the Rev. John Fyre A M of Hackney will preach at the New Chapel City Road, Tabernacle Row, for the benefit of the Leon Edechyich Dispensary. The service begins exactly at six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Chapel
City-Road
Leon Edechyich Dispentary
Tabernacle-Row
John Fyre
Hackney
Dispatches from London Gazette on French retreat and Italian capitulations
Extracts from a July dispatch chain report Buonaparte forced to abandon his camp near Joppa after Turkish pursuit. Gezzar Pacha strengthens pursuit and thirteen French generals and three hundred officers are displayed at Constantinople. Bologna capitulates to General Klenau. Joppa taken by allied forces under Sir Sydney Smith and Turks. Napoleon reaches Et Tarif on Syria’s frontier, seeking safety across the desert. Vienna reports Florence and Leghorn towns undoing the Tree of Liberty with French troops retreating toward Leghorn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
London Gazette
Dawning Street
Lord, Henley
Lord Grenville
Foreign Department
Lord Henley
Fiennas
Constantinople
Acre
Mey
Buonaparte
Joppa
Gezzar Pacha
Suwarrow
Altssandria
Toilona
J. Mile Faly
Kray
Bologna
Ktenau
Capture of La Prudente by Daedalus in Table Bay
A report from Table Bay dated February 16 recounts the Daedalus under Captain Lofack engaging and capturing the French frigate La Prudente after a 57 minute action. La Prudente, 297 men, 26 twelve-pounders, is described as a vessel of Isle de France origin. The Lettner Tucker is commended for his role as prize master, with a record of casualties on both ships. Additional notices record bankruptcies and dividends, with a brief digest of Bamburgh and Paris journals up to the 26th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dante
Kieran
Egognia
Birence
D’alpre
Bologna
Ofice
Fay
George Lofack
Nepean
Table-bay
Cape of Good Hope
Lolack
Daedalus
Chace
Islé of France
Breg
Isle of France
Atrizé
la Prudente
East Indies
Jesty
Fulleida
Nicholas Tucker
Tam
Dedalus
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Jaime
Marianne Chambers
Charles Chambers
Hon. East-India Company
Winterton
C. Dilly
A. G
Wilde
Shoreditch
Orl
Tan Ted
A.B
Mr. Chapman
Portscript
Lord Healey
Vienna
Florence
Corps de Gua'e
Pistoia
Leghorn
A. Stephenson
Newcattle-upon-Fyne
Shakepear Tavern
Newcattle-upon-Tyne
Halifax
York
Jinen
White Lion
W. Young
Ramsgate
Kent
Vintners
Whithead
Manchzfer
Thoe-Ntaker
T. Hartley
Lochbury
Merchant
J. Evans
Portsmouth
Southampton
W. Chaytor
Market Fr
Stames’s
Money-Ciiy
G. & T. Smith
Witney
Oxford
Innhalders
W. Wilkinson
T. Chapman
Jewry-street
W. Badford
Lantaster
Mercer
Bamburgh
Paria
Anr
Switzerland
Italy
Moreau
Genoa
Tortona
Hetly
Macdonald
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