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Weekly Register in London, Middlesex

23 May 1798

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Weekly Register

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London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 23, 1798

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5

London News Roundup From Yesterday’s Levee to Naval Losses

A London piece notes the D of Lester at the Levee after a decade, Princess of Wales birthday breakfasts, and a Court of Directors at India House. It reports naval actions near Spain, the Lively loss but captain acquitted, Melee at Rota Point, and prizes taken by Britain. Also covered are emigre orders, public notices, duels in Hyde Park, and a Lady Shore mutiny tale with a convict voyage to Rio de Janeiro.

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Lester Levee Lord Duncan Scotland North Seas Princess of Wales Bengal Pinckney Marshall Gerry L’orient le Quatorzieme Juillet Morris Spain Rota Point Alcmene Brest Great Britain Tloops &c Southampton Mantel Cambridge Trinity College Lord St. Vincent Admiral Kingsmill George-street Hanover-square Hyde Park Fitzgerald Brown West India Service J. O.parke Chelmsford John Jones Sylvester Smith East London W. Addington Pitt Mark Sprott Omnium Club Lord Belgrave Privy Council Fox Finch Butterfield Price Bourne Mary Clark Lady Shore Fort St. Phillips Almouth Rio Janeiro L’ Orient J. W. Carter Bowstreet
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Regulations at Ordnance Office Move to White and Blue Cartridges

The May 19 notice lists immediate changes at the Ordnance Office with cartridges. White paper for powder cartridges and blue for ball cartridges to prevent fatal mistakes. It also notes a suggested tax on armorial bearings by Edm. Lodge. Letters from Ireland discuss a thwarted conspiracy to blow up forts at Kinsale.

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Ordnance Office Edm Lodge Lancaster Herald Niews Antiquary Ireland Kinsale Europe Directory America
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Fragmentary Victorian financial musings and local accidents

The text notes vast sums in pounds and milliards waged in conflict and maintenance of armies, then shifts to a Stratford incident where a driver fell from a wagon and died, followed by a quarry collapse burying a labourer near Stoney Stratford. The piece combines economic speculation with two grisly local mishaps.

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Mr. Williams Stratford Brentwood Stoney Stratford
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London Gazette notices of trades and guildhall dates

From the London Gazette listing multiple tradespeople and merchants with birth or residence towns such as Robertsbridge Cambridge street Liverpool and Birmingham. It records names professions and scheduled dates in May and June at Guildhall Mary Lloyds Star and Garter and other venues.

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William Hyland Robertsbridge Sussex Guildhall Charles Newman Cambridge-sireet Thomas Watson Oxford-sireet Limen-Draper James Ashwell Birmingham Thimble-Makery Fune Mary Lloyd’s New-street William Johnson Liverpool Globe Tavern Timothy Grisdale Bolton le Moors Lancaster Three Crowns Buit le Moors Thomas Folds Higher Swan Market-street Manchester John Tipping John Gifford Rawhing Star and Garter Charles Twigg Shakespear Tavern John Spythertori Wellington Somerset Money-Criverer George Delmadnte Duke-street Westminster Thomas Paar Holborn Keen-Draper
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