Royal visit and maritime notes amid 18th century postings
Reports from Spithead note the Duke of Kent's Portsmouth visit and a naval salute aboard the Arethusa en route to Halifax. A Great Seal patent is granted for Selvagee Cordage while water filtration on the Vengeance is tested. St Helena letters warn of provisioning strain as East India ships dock and Cape supplies dwindle, with Governor Brooke planning two-year European imports. Also detailed are multiple 18th century burglaries in Kentish Town, Enfield, and Kensington, plus a tragic window accident near Exeter Change and a fatal Old Bailey collision. A Gravesend boat seizure nets 25 bales of smuggled goods from returning ships.
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Cape of Good “Hope
England
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Randall
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Wilmer
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Exeter Change
Strand
Bridgestreet
Old Bailey
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
St. Giles’s
Sadler’s Wells
Spa-fields
Gravesend
Tocol
Pardoning militia deserters and royal mercy for July
Friday notices in St James's discuss pardoning militia deserters who joined other regiments before August. Those who surrender by the deadline gain pardon. prosecutions and imprisonments are to be discharged. The issue also reports a Turkish gift to the Ottoman prince carried by the Earl of Elgin, a Chelmsford Essex county meeting with prizes for livestock, and various crime sentences from Canterbury and Exeter sessions.
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Hants
Wilts
Argo
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Algiers
Dey
Minorca
Bowen
Capt. Bowen
George Hog
Pontefract
Yorkshire
James Robinson
Lancaster
John Reid
Kirkleslie
Scotland
John Foley
Dublin
Ireland
James Little
Mullingar
Caphael Starke
Gibraltar
Northumberland
Mary-le-bone
Croydon
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James Lovell
Sarah King
Sarah Whaley
Frank Smith
Jupiter
Thames
Norwich
William Stigall
Samuel Jones
Thomas Cooper
Henry Coe
Devonshire
Castle of
Exeter
Ged. Taylor
Geo. Williams
James Stroud
John Sutherland
Plymouth
John Armstrong
Pghioetry
John Macnamara
Wedoes
Gallant British naval action off Cape Creux reported
From the London Gazette July 27 1799 a letter from Earl St Vincent recounts Capt Peard and the crews of three boats from the HMS Success under Lieutenants Facey Stupart and Davison in a day battle near Cape Creux. They captured the Bella Aurora from Genoa, carrying 113 men, aided by shore batteries. Three officers and several sailors were killed or wounded.
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Earl St. Vincent
K. B
Evan Nepean
Port Mahon
Peard
High Majesty
Great Britain
Admiralty
Sam
Sir
ST. Vincent
Mahony Funeray
Cape Creaux
Keith
N.W
Chace
la Selva
Cape
Facey
Stupart
Davison
Genoa
Barcelona
Fats
Fatéy and
Lieut
Joe Speard
John Grey
John Londres
James Shaw
Thomas Edwards
John Hughes
William Robinson
Lavnch
William Orr
G. Stupart
Rich. Hornsby
Will. Madden
Cutter
Tho. Needham
Will. Lamb
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