Raid on Castle and Privateer Captures Reported
Rear Admiral Duckworth reports boarding the castle vessels under fire and driving the Spaniards ashore. Marshall and Parker receive commendations for anchoring and for daring actions. The Gazette also notes French privateers Grand Ferrailleur and Deux Amis captured by Phoebe and Alcmene respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lieut. Parker
Marshall
Parker
Ricketts
Bourdeaux
Digby
Alcmene
St. Domingo
Bankrupts and Dividends Notice From Guildhall Listings
Bankruptcy notices list T. Lewis joiner and builder of Liverpool and others including W. Webster linen drapery of Fore Street, and J. Watson merchant of St. Mary Axe, with dates Nov 2/23 and Dec 7 at Guildhall. Dividends noted for J. O. Harries Cardigan and others, with several names tied to trades in Liverpool Oxfordshire Gloucestershire and Yorkshire, all dated Nov 26 to Nov 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Lewis
Liverpool
Lancaster
Globe Tavern
John-street
W. Webster
Fore-street
Guildhall
A Ee Watson
St. Mary Axe
Elondéd
W. Burton
Chatham-place
London
Money Scrivener
Dudney
J. O. Harries
Cardigan
C. Wethierhead
T. Heynes
Chipping Norton
Lincolnshire
P. Dumarefq
Birmingham
Windsor sermon and royal news from Oct 28
Yesterday morning their Majesties and the Princesses attended a sermon at St George's Chapel Windsor preached by Rev Dr Langford. Lieut Col Cunningham and six officers wounded in Holland arrived in town by tilted boats to Whitehall stairs. Mails for Hamburgh aboard La Lutine found afloat near the bank and returned to the General Post Office. A duelist fatality reported between Capt Jones and Mr Manning. A foreigner brought to Portland Office on charge of note forgeries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. George’s Chapel
Windsor
Langford
Cunningham
Guards
Holland
Town
Woolwich
Whitehall
Hamburgh
Duke of Dorset
James Capper
Wilmington
Sussex
London
Hayhead
North Creke
Norfolk
Jones
Wrexham
Manning
Chester
Faliouth
Duke of Portland
Revett and
Dowlett
Royal Bank of
Lisbon forgery ring foiled after Kensington seizure
A Portuguese ambassador attended a second examination as Mont? D Almeida and an accomplice were committed to prison. Police found plate and forging implements in Kensington. Separate reports recount a violent fray at Mr Conolly’s Westminster home with multiple injuries and a murder verdict, plus assorted robberies and highwaymen incidents around London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portugal
Kensington
Ford
Mont? D' Almeida
Lisbon
Conolly
Marquis of Granby
Westminster
Maron
Woolwich
Chelmsford
H.B
Bradwell
St. Peter’s
Maldon
Colchester
Hardyman
Hanworthy
Hounslow-heath
Cornwall
Hendon-house
Northend-hill
Miss Cornwall
A. Ball
Barwell
Newmarket
Wimbledon-commor
Garman
Old-Broad-street
Belliqueux
Chatham
Blenheim
Five Portsmouth dock-yard men and waterman to stand trial
Five people connected to the Portsmouth dockyard and a waterman have been committed for trial next for an act tied to a fire and the wreck of the Im pregnable. The case concerns detestation following the incident and involves serious allegations related to the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
French Soldier Dog Mourns after Camperdown Hills Battle
A spectator near Camperdown Hills on the 2nd reports a French infantryman lying dead with a dog beside him. The dog refused to leave the body, mourned for a day, then, after burial, scratched the ground and eventually killed itself when a dragoon ended its misery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Camperdown
Inis
Paniel
Felony at Edgware Road Court Case and Infant Skeleton Find
Henry Yeates and Thomas Paris faced Sir William Addington on charges of stealing a box from William Wrench's Edgware Road dwelling containing plate deeds and valuables. Paris fled over a wall with the box, then Yeates, Paris's brother in law, attempted to sell the plate but was duped. Both men committed for trial. Meanwhile two boys reported finding an infant skeleton in a Thames sluice box and, after burying the bones, authorities ordered a full inquest to identify the perpetrator of the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bow, Street
Henry Yeates
Thomas
Paris
Williama Addington
William Wrench
Edgware-road
Zoel
Wrench
Yeates
Thames
Milbank
Torhillfields
Deaths from the Helder and other locales reported
Obituaries list multiple deaths across Britain and abroad. Lieut. Col. Dawkins of the Guards perished after action with La Forte. Capt. Cooke of the Sybille wounded in that engagement. Other deceased include Andrew Hogg of Chelsea Road aged 74, Mrs Kutt of Maldon, Lieut. Humphries who sailed with Captain Vancouver, Mrs Coomber aged 95, John Riddell of Bath, William Tilloch of Tennachie Moray, Sir George Dunbar Bart at Norwich, Rev R Parrow of Wigan, Mrs Hill of St Chad’s Shrewsbury, Rev Graham Chappell of Orton Notts, Rev Plaxton Dickinson at Bishop’s Stortford, Rev John Howe of Redmarly aged 38, Lieut George Robertson of the navy aged 67, and Alexander Steuart of Steuart-hall. Also mention of an Athens death in July.
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Helder
Col. Dawkins
Guards
la Forte
Cooke
Andrew Hogg
Upper Belgrave-place
Chelita-road
Maldon
Essex
Kutt
Geo- Ray
Upper Fhames-street
Sackville-street
Humphries
Vancouver
Tunbridge
Coomber
Crescent
Bath
John Riddell
William Tilloch
Tennachie
Regiment of Dragoons
Wigan
R. Parrow
St. Chad’s
Shrewsbury
Hill
Hull
Orton
Notts
Graham Chappell
Bishop’s Stortford
Herefordshire
Plaxton Dickinson
John Howe
Redmarly
Worcestershire
Banff
Scotland
Geo. Robertson
Navy
Alexander Steuart
Steuart-hall
Athens
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