Recovery sails with privateers from Jamaica fleet
May 11 report from Kingston describes His Majesty's armed schooner Recovery under Lieut Ross arriving at Mont%C3%A9po Bay with two French privateers, VIncreditle and La Revari%C3%A9, captured during the cruise. One English crewman aboard La Revarié leaped overboard rather than be captured after three Englishmen were killed. Three of the miscreants were executed. Jamaica notes the fleet gathering from various parts, expected to be one of the largest and most valuable since long, convoyed by three ships of the line, two frigates, and a sloop. The fleet leaves on June 10.
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Kington
His
Ross
Montépo Bay
Hermione
Jamaica
England
LAW REPORTS Court of Kino Bench July 16 ponchez vertus and others
The court heard that defendants failed to provide proper provisions for French prisoners in ships, with penalties and religious implications discussed. Counsel urged remedies including security for correct provisioning, while the case was referred for amicable decision. A separate note records a Saint Domingo freedwoman sending 45 pounds as gratitude to a French Conde officer.
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Court of Kino's Bench
Ponchez Vertus
Shain
Cowper
sPbberine Rit ‘Rante
Iail
Erskine
Garrow
Lord Kenyon
Meff
Dampier
Burroughs
Deserres
St. Domingo
Conde
Lanswer
Gardner's Pills advertised cure for rheumatism and diseases
A 1783 advertisement by Gardner of Long-Acre claims his pills cure rheumatism, bile, swimming in the head, gravel, and scurvy with few pains. The text promises safety and returns money if not relieved, notes decades of practice, and lists multiple London and provincial addresses and attestations from patients and officials.
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Gardner
John Whitehead
Executions of H and J Sheares for High Treason in Dublin
Ireland reports the execution of H and J Sheares on a platform before New Prison after failed refusals of reprieve and confessed aims of reform. The article notes the rope height, their heads severed after twenty minutes, and describes their father’s fortune and writings. It also covers a later murder of Mr Lawless by local banditti near New Hagard, and broader unrest with 4000 to 8000 rebels in Prosperous and Clonard Meath, plus militia movements and amnesty counts.
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Dublin
J. Sheares
Henry
Dobbyn
John
H. Sheares
Cork
Cloghnakilty
Ele
Addison
Fon
John Fo
Ann
Wade
New Hagard
Lurk
J. Lawless
Baker
Hagard
Poe
Lawless
Mr. L
Kilcullen
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Long-Acre
West Smithfield
Mr. Gardner
James Taylor
Aldersgate-street
Tuomas Arnorp
India-house
Leagenhall-ftr
Turt
Royal Exchange
Hopgood
Wellclose Square
Glark
Boroughs
Ward
Holborn
Crosby’s-son
Walworth
Cooper
West-Ham
Wright
Doncasters Mann
Kettering
Seantlebury
Sheffield
Royce
Stamford
Caveny
Feverthiat
Ctour
Lever
Oaks
Swinney and Co
Birmingham
Etherington
Rochester
Chatham
Dodd
Gravesend
Portsea
Reed
Bristol
Wotton
Chertsey
Miller
Woolwich
Lurock
Kimbolton
Kelloway
Fordingbridge
Ji Gardner
Ireland
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