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Weekly Register in London, Middlesex

18 Sep 1799

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Weekly Register

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London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Sep 18, 1799

Page

5

Royal Family entertained aboard Anson frigate at Weymouth

London reports the Royal Family and noble guests enjoyed a grand on deck event aboard the Anson frigate at Weymouth. Dances, a multi-table dinner, music by Dragoons and Scots Greys, and shoreward admiration followed a day of festive arrangements and national banners. News notes include a King William III statue plan, Dutch Surinam ambitions, St Domingo battles, Irish estate sales, a Crayford murder wound verdict, Horringer sheep fair, and charity school centenary festivities.

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Weymouth Durham Charlotte Princess Augusta Captain Durham Princess Elizabeth Harry Neale Mary Charles Somerset Princess Sophia Duke of Newcastle Dragoons Scotch Greys King Prince of Wales Duke of York Ansen William Iit St. James’s Square Dea Dovery India Martinico Surinam St. Domingo Touislant Crayford Bexley-heath Kent Verdié Wiltu Muyder Horringer Fair Suffolk Ipwich St. Martin In
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Royal Court Session Adopts Addresses After Sailor Victories

The London Court of Common Council meets to draft an address praising King George III for naval and land victories in Holland and the Texel campaign. They grant honors to Vice Admiral Andrew Mitchell and Sir Ralph Abercromby, plus two guineas to each, and congratulate the officers and sailors. Também appoints Lieut. Col. Drummond and Lord Blantyre to new commands. A burglary at A W Taylor’s house is reported.

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Weymouth William Petrie Bast Retford Madras Saunders Earl of Mornington Lord Clive Harris Falsofield Pétre Court of Common Council Bullcock Powell Samuel Dixon Europe Hodgson Watkin Ewes Box Andrew Mitchell Foxel Ralph Abercromby K. B Holland Texel Drummond 1St.regiment of Foot Guards Smollett Helder Lord Blantyre 7Th Regiment Light Dragoons A. W. Taylor Elgar Barham Carsing
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Milk yield record from Groves grocer at Lyminghdd 1797

A cow owned by Mr Anthony Groves, a grocer in Lyminghdd, yielded in ten months and twenty days 1346 gallons, two quarts, and half a pint of milk. The milk sold for 441 pounds 11 shillings at a later sale. The entry notes the quantity and sale value in old currency.

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Anthony Groves Lyminghdd
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Capture of Seringapatam Reported in London Gazette Extra

London Gazette Extraordinary carries extracts from Earl Mornington to Dundas and a Madras dispatch detailing Harris's May 1799 victory at Seringapatam. It describes the breach assault by European and Sepoy troops, tippoo Sultan's fall, and the palace’s burning aftermath.

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Downing-street Sarah Christiana Earl of Madras Harris Seringapatam Nizaim Assaulet Regiment de Meuron Sherbrooke Dunlop Dalrymple Gardiner Mignan Slnk Baird Tippoo Tippoo Sultani Syed Sceb Meer Sadue Syed Gofa Sheupalacse
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