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Newspaper
Weekly Register
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 06, 1799
Page
8
An item notes a Saturday release featuring a beautiful frontispiece and a sixpence bound in boards. The language evokes a period newspaper card promoting a tangible collectible bound with a coin.
Dispatches from London report cavalry embarked and French prisoners to be surrendered after Schagenbug capitulation. News from St Helena says Indiaman fleets proceed homeward with the Cape colony in good health. A shipwreck near Texel and a fatal list of casualties are noted, with bread prices fixed and law matters listed in Guildhall notices.
From the Admiralty letter: Captain Yorke on HMS Stag reports the capture of L Heureux, a privateer from Cayenne bound for Bordeaux, with cargo including cocoa and coffee, and a second privateer of 26 guns outward bound. Stag pursued in the Garonne entrance area and secured the prize.
Fragmented OCR shows an advertisement about printed and posted orders and letters. It lists offices in Birmingham Manchester and London for bidding, payments and receipt, mentioning T Gillet Croan Court Vleet Street and Chapman bookseller along with other local agents. The legible items are scattered with names and addresses.
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