Maroon news and church services stir London notices
Mon day reports from Jamaica warn that the Maroons are active as troops prepare for action. In London, St John and St Margaret Assocations attend divine service at St Margaret’s Church with an Amos iii sermon and an anthem headed by Lord Viscount elgrave. Paul and Temple Bar Association also attend service at St Paul’s with a psalm-inspired sermon and marching drums. A critic questions the propriety of marching music during worship. Peter Porcupine reveals a secret United Irishmen group in America seeking liberty and equality as a path to subvert constitutions. A court in Holland overturns a forged bill case after the drawer tried to adulterate a 60l bill. other cases in Dublin and Bedford end in transportation or executions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
St.John and St. Margaret
St. Margaret’s Church
Westminster
Amos iii
Lord Viscount Elgrave
St. Paul and Temple- Bar Association
St. Paul’s
a _ Peter Porcupine
United States
W. Robb
Tea sale signals large lot of varieties to be offered
Dispatches from Earl St Vincent report the hoped for overtaking of Napoleon by Nelson and Troubridge remains premature. Tea shipments exceed three million pounds across varieties to be auctioned next sale. Christ's Hospital elected 37 naval lieutenant sons, while Breadfruit trees in St Vincent thrive, tracing Bligh's 1702 plantings. A Holyhead mail theft yielded 1600 guineas.
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Earl St. Vincent
Grey
Nelson
Lrowbridge
Huenaparte
Christ’s Hospital
Travers
Society of Arts
Anderson
St. Vincent’s
Bligh
Otaheite
Holyhead
Admiralty report on Aurora naval cruise near Cadiz
From the London Gazette an extra letter from the Earl of St Vincent details Captain Digby and the Aurora’s actions off Cadiz in July 1798. It describes reconnoitering, engaging enemy vessels, burning a brigantine, scuttling a schooner, and driving privateers from the port while reporting ships in the bay and near Cape Prior. It notes encounters with forts, a privateer lugger, and a large French privateer, plus Lloyd’s reconnaissance and destruction of a coast vessel.
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Earl of
Carmes
Cape Prior
Cedeira
Wrest
Medea
Aurora
Guernsey
Chaced
Cape Machichicao
Asth
Bilboa
Baguio
St. Antero
Local trades and listings from mid August notices
A fragmented listing shows names and trades including a mealman at the Angel Inn in Peterborough, J Browne of Putney with money for a veterinary, J Gable of Salata Surrey a butcher, and multiple Aug dates. Other entries name bookseller J Evans of Patenofter-row, Lang Frazer and Boylston with Nicholas Jane merchants, hatter A Cumming of Rotherhithe Wall, and merchant Henry Kyte of Rye Sussex with various August dates.
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Law
Spalding
Lincoln
Mealman
the Angel Inn
Peterborough
J. Browne
Putney
Money Feriveter
A Guildbally
J. Gable
Salata
Surry
Butcher
Ae Guildhall Ug
J.evans
Pateenofter-row
Lang, Frazer
Ruffian squadron joins Texel fleet under Mackaroff
News from Yarmouth and Falmouth reports Admiral Duncan’s arrival and honors in port after the Ruffian squadron joined the Texel fleet. A captured ship Zeluft carried 1100 pages of extraordinary manufacture from Amsterdam to Hamburg. Drama unfolds with mutiny trials aboard Pluto and a Danish frigate pursuing privateers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elfineur
Dragoe
Christian
Newton's Dog Causes Fire in Scholar's Study
Sir Isaac Newton's temper remained firm as his dog Diamond toppled a lit candle, setting age‑long papers ablaze. He did not strike the animal, only rebuking it with the exclamation Diamond, thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done.
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Isaac Newton
Diamond
Sir Haac
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St. Paul’s Churchyard
Goldsmith
J. Elon
Watford
Greats
Yarmouth
T. ‘Thompson
Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Paternofter-row
Chester
Dublin
Bedford
Hotham
THE
London Gazette
Admiralty Offices
Fuly
l’Avantivia
Pierrepont
T. Fletcher
Newcastle
Herries and Nailer
London
Guilthall
Colchester
Essex
the Red Lion
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Ship News
King George Packet
Bell
Hantague
Norris
Majors Stirling
Braid
Greville
Stewarts
Linch Dangerously
Aleyinplé
Reynolds
Pickwood
Princess of Wales Packet
Le'Tigre
Spain
Texel
Margate
Ariadne
Romney
Plover
Champion
Wolverine
Dartender
Lawford
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