:' – e — g : ¥ & A 3 _ PRINTED BY N, ROLLASON AND W. READER,

... thie coast of ltaly, and that the ports of this country as well as those of Spain and Portugal, will short!y be opencd to the ships and commerce of Great Dritain. The public wifis be rejoiced to hear, thiat the system of attaek so admirably displayed by Government ...

Published: Monday 19 September 1808
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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and Wednesday's Posts. ¥

... and ammunition, Yestined for Spain, took place on Monda and ay, at Woolwich. The {\lm were :1}; Spanish : eighty-twe were shipped by Monday evening. Tlie French havin% taken away or desiroyed asi as they could of the artillery in the Royal Arsenals in ...

Published: Monday 19 September 1808
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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GARDENER’ CA FOR OCTOBER

... doubt tallow must fall consi plundered almost évery no doubt the and proparticularly. » hemp, flax, ; but there is » as the ships goes, have a have been quality. frora Brazil, now discharging their considerable quantity of tallow from It is with pleasure ...

Published: Monday 10 October 1808
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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. T T | el I C 0 T ! r e Rl T TR he @ onentry (Flercury 'R

... Oct. 18. Copy of a letter from Capt.Farquhar,of his M ship Ariadne, toVice- Admiral Vashon, in Chief of his .Ug’aq’t‘rw vessels . and by him transmitted to the Hon. IV. w. SIR, His Majesty’s ship Ariadne, Oct. 4, 1808. W BEG to acquaint you, that T have ...

Published: Monday 24 October 1808
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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... thathe must be cither the Devil or Jokn Bull. When the brave Admiral Kempenfelt, u.nhng il lost in the Roz;l George, was coming in:o :rts’: mouth to have his ship paid off, a sailor eyed a gold lace velvet waistcoat which his commander wore, with great ...

Published: Monday 24 October 1808
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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ARRIVAL OF A FLAG OF TRUCE

... on their passage to Portsinouth. One of them foundered, ‘and several sail are driven on the coast of I'rance.— Several ships have lost anchors and cables. . . Parliament, it is now positively said, will meet for ghc dispatch of business on the Sth of January ...

Published: Monday 24 October 1808
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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LORD E ODNEY

... operation, (the battle raging) his own attention being occupied by the gallant defence made by the French Glorieux against the ships that were pouring their fire into her, upon his crying out, “ Behold, Sir George, the Greeks aud Trojans contending for the ...

Published: Monday 07 November 1808
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1276 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

3 R A ‘ a D

... at Quiberon, bave safely arrived at Yalmouth, L Vice- Admiral Sir James Saumerez, in his Majesty’s ship Victory, with the Centaur and Implacable, ships of the line, arrived on Monday morning | in the Downs, from the Baltic. Sir James saluted Vice-Admiral ...

Published: Monday 14 November 1808
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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i The iuhabitams of Rousiitvn are dissatisfied with ! the infamous conduct of the French troops in Spain. i Thev

... on the 7th inst. and arrived at Deal on \Wednesday night last. They report that there were nine sail of the line, a 30 gun ship, and a frigate, lying ready to sail at an hour’s notice, if they could escape the vigilance of the British squadron. ' We ...

Published: Monday 14 November 1808
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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. MONDAY'S POSIE ; g ed—— | | )8 i , s - é FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. f; I

... afier great slaughter boarded and taken sion i, und some prisoners received frosa her, before we Jisengaged the ships. Shortly afber, a ship ot war was scen closing fast under a press of sail, which proved to be the Triumph, which immediately gave ‘us ...

Published: Monday 21 November 1808
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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aoer. 'On his arrival at Caldos, he understood, that the t'rencii Yorce under Gen. Laborde amounted to 60003 ..

... except beef and wine; an! from the time of their landing to the 20th of September, the troops received only biscuit from the ships. A small uantity of bread was left behind by the French, at Calfiom and another station ; and also at Torres Vedras; with this ...

Published: Monday 28 November 1808
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3742 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... Swiss troops who lately deserted to us from the French service. On Sunday, about three o’clock in the afternoon, a lus merchant ship wasfcaptured off Rye, by a ch privateer, in sight of a t number of peo& from the .hm;n.fi it beifir?hensocalm, that rinleer co:ld ...

Published: Monday 12 December 1808
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
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