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Newspaper

Weekly Register

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 08, 1799

Page

4

French and Spanish naval actions and public notices

Maritime notices report captures and recaptures near Mauritius and Tamatave with vessels like Ca Ira L Elizabeth L Esperance and garland transfers. Royal proclamations name John Harrison as navy victualling commissioner and elections for Gatton and Midshall MPs, with a long list of bankruptcy notices and tradespeople listed by town and date.

Mauritius Foul-Point Ashift Cape Ca Ira Foul Point Tamatave Madagacar Garland L’esperance Madagascar France Buenos Aires L. M‘lean H. C. Christian Whitehall John Harrison Crown Office Walter Stirling Gatton John Heathcote John Simpson Midshall Mitchell Christopher Hawkins

Listed trades and notable deaths from a Norfolk to London notice

The document records multiple June and May entries for tradesmen in Norfolk and London, including masiter une 4, cabinet maker, silver buckle maker, and Bristol merchants. It also lists a sermon at St George’s Chapel Windsor, disembodiments of Scots Fencibles across Scotland, a found woman’s body in the New River, funeral processions at Richmond, canal embankment breaches near Birmingham, livestock show prizes, a cottage fire, and obituaries across Britain including Sir William Dunbar’s family, Archibald Laird, Mrs Baillie, John Bloomfield, Rev Gerrison, and Lord Nelson’s relative Maurice Suckling Nelson.

R. Girling West Rudham Norfolk T. Soedebergh Totenham Court Road T. Kirkham Chapel-street Pentonville T. Harris J. Price Bristol W. Spendlow Spalding Lincoln Draper Augusta Elizabeth Sophia St. Géorge’s Chapel Windsor Luke Angus Peterhead Argyleshire Dundee Breadalbane Fort George Paisley Wet Lowland Muffelburgh Northern Kirkaldy Rosshire Alloa Southern Linlithgow Sutherland Strafpey Stirling Caithness Legion Aberdeen Rothsay Caithness Batt New River St. John’s Street Goswell-street Clerkeriwell Warwick Canal Taylor Bordesley Birmingham East Riding of Yorkshire Agricultural Society Driffield Liming Wakerley Northamptonshire St. John's Hill Keith Dunbar William Dunbar Durn Sesfion Greenock Archibald Laird Rothnick Fettereffe Scotland Longmuir St. George’s Row Hyde Park Corner William Troughton 129Th Regiment of Foot Cornelius van Mildert Newington- Place Surrey Melle Stain-House Edinburgh Baillie George Baillie Jerriswood Mallow John Bloomfield Bloomfield-lodge Leicester John Howard Samuel Haw Great Yarmouth Brompton-row Charles Fielding Ward Gray’s-inn Stamford-hill Mary Craven John Craven Goodman’s Fields

Deaths at Hemingford Abbots and Nearby Parishes

Obituary notices list deaths across Bedfordshire and London areas. Includes Major Thomas Ogilvie, 61, formerly of the Essex Fencible Regiment in Ireland. Rev Ezekial Rouse, vicar of Clophill and Polnxhill, aged unknown. Mrs M Harding of Brompton, 87. Charles Williams, Westminster door-keeper at St. Stephen’s House of Commons. William Fanks of Pidmore near Stourbridge, 77. Mr Richards, eminent brewer of Camphill near Birmingham. Lieut Col William Mackintosh long serving in East India Army.

Hemingford Abbots Hunting Thomas Ogilvie Essex Fencible Regiment of Foot Ireland Ezekial Rouse Clophill Polnxhill Bedfordshire St. John’s College Cambridge Brompton M. Harding St. Margaret's Church St. Margaret's Church-yard Westminster Charles Williams House of Commons William. Fanks Pidmore Stourbridge Camphill Birmingham Richards William Mackintoth East India

Letter from Nelson to Governor of Bombay on Alexandria operations

Admiral Nelson reports from the Vanguard near Alexandria describing a 40 000-man French force landed July 1 and marching to Catto, with several ships lost or escaping. He cites Buonaparte's plans for Suez and Damietta, notes French at Rosetta, and asserts British control of the Nile approaches. He mentions his head wound, his wish to hold position, and vows to resist Buonaparte and protect India.

Admiral Nelson Bombay Mouth of the Nile Egypt Baldwin Alexandaria C. Xe Alexandria Catto Buonaparte Ipeak Suez Damietta India Genoa Nile Rosetta Buonas Parte C. Ati Cairo Horatio Nelson

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