Embargo Notices and London News Dispatches 1798
Government cutters guard the Thames embargo as Lord Portland reports Castlebar remains contested but with little Irish disaffection elsewhere. News items cover duels near Upnor, a Kent incident, a Chatham officer letter altercation, a drowning of a coachman and horse, Helensburgh boating tragedy, Knaresborough chaife accident, a Warwickshire missing girl found, and Chester assizes trials including a Liverpool crew member's death sentence and a lenient murder verdict. Bank summary ends with Sept 6 figures.
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Duke of Portland
Whitehall
Ireland
Knockhit
Castlebar
Senet
Portland
Lord Mays
Chatham
Earl of Eoremont
Glasgow
Helensburgh
Miss Crosby
Frodham
Warwickshire
London
Chester
Grant
Liverpool
Martin
Azrold
Highwaymen rob a baron and a walker. whale beaches near Burntisland
Reports describe two armed highwaymen stopping Sir J Pulteney near Sawtry toll bar and stealing 29 guineas and a watch, later returning the watch. A Londoner is robbed of five pounds near Shoreditch. A fifty-foot whale beaches at Burntisland then departs. Coopers seek pay raises, and Treason suspect J F Jefferies is arrested in Smithfield. Military officers adjust ranks as regiments move to Ireland amid foreign vessel activity. Public notices update fishing embargoes and naval communications.
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J. Pulteney
Sawtry
Tollbar
Lincolnshire
London
Stoke Newington
Shoreditch
Kingsland Crescent
Bumtisland
Ife
Thire
Scotland
Coopers
West-Indies
J. F. Jefferies
Johnston
Ireland
Anid
Revett
Smithfield
Secretary of State
Duke of Portland
G. I. Hatton
West Kent
Brigade of Grenadiers
Canterbury
Sir Ch. Grey
Limehouse-hole
Billinggate
Thur
London Gazette
Admiralty Office
Lord Brilport, KB
Evan Nepean
Royak George
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Lonpdott
Lloya
Anderson
Admiralty Board
Thames
Lord Berwick
Condover
Shropshire
Salisbury
Uxbridge-moor
Uxbridge
Bow-street
Williams
Reundcourt
Upnor Castle
Kent
Brotey
Maines
Palmer
Ayre-street
Piccadilly
Liett. Bromley
Bromley
Foss