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Newspaper

Weekly Register

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Sep 12, 1798

Page

5

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.

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.

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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