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... ; and the Ariel, Figg, h)F the Leeward Islands. Sunday, 23.—Sailed, 11. M. ship. Grasshoppor, Captain Crawford, for the West Indies. Monday, 24.—-Sailed, the Sheldrake, Lieut. Edc, for St. Domingo, Jamaica, Vera Cruz, and the Havannah. ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1828
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AMERICAN PAPERS

... This squadron is from Martinique, in 14 days' passage, r visits onr waters in order avoid the equinoctial galrs of the West Indies. The officers and crews of the squadron are all in good health. We learn that all was perfectly tranquil at Mar Unique the ...

Published: Friday 29 October 1824
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ARMY—THE SELECT LIST

... Islands; 11th ditto, lf» rank and lonian JsJauds.; SO rank and file, for Gibraltar; 19th ditto, 20 rank and file, for the West Indies; 22d ditto, 50 rank and file, for Jamaica; 33d ditto, 40 rank and file, for Jamaica; ditto rank and file,for Malta, 77th ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1829
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 461 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOUSE OF COMMONS

... was nothing like competition between the East and West Indies in tbe article of sugar, for the quantity impoited of the former amounted last year only to 150 cwt., while that imported from the West Indies amounted' to 3,000,0. 0 cwt.— The Chancellor ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1829
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 767 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SIR HENRY TORRESS

... Regiment. With this latter Regiment he served in the West Indies, onder Sir Ralph Abercrombie, where he was wounded in the thigh at the siege of Morne Fortune. Daring his residence in the West Indies, he was appointed toa of the West Indja corps then formed ...

Published: Thursday 04 September 1828
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 493 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Births. On Tuesdav, the Lady of Henry Gribble, Esq. of the Hon. East India Company’s Service, of a d:ughter-. On

... Morning last, after a lingering illness, James, the youngest of Southm»lton, a On the 12th Ju!y last, at Tortola, in the West Indies, of yellow fever. Mr. William Redd, mate of the Lavinia, of Lancaster, and eldest soa of Bers. F. saad. 4. ...

Published: Thursday 25 September 1828
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 152 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FRENCH CATHOLIC CLERGY

... we are reminded of the remark attributed in wellknown Biography to Father Burke, Irish Catholic Priest in the Spanish West Indies, when he was told that it was asserted that even the clergy in England had been instrumental in bringing about the eforma ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1828
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HORTICULTURE

... appearance. The Plantain grows in the hot regions, both of the old and new world, and particularly abundant in tbe East and West Indies, where its fruit may be called tbe staff of life, supplying the place of bread to the natives. That excellent herbalist ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1829
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 542 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

... towvar~ds the Island. cF countteract any attempt which the French, mxay make, the British force irn the neighbqiurhood of the West Indies is wholly incompetent. *bhout0ldComusodpre Owen1 be. able ,by.say miracle to ar- yive off Cuba before the French have struck ...

Published: Thursday 10 April 1823
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 852 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

The Slave-Thada.-Of all evils which arc done under the sun, lew have cried longer, and none at this moment cry

... Perhaps may said that this is misnomer that slave Irude does not exist, and ought rather sa* the system of slavery in the West Indies. will not, however, because* we dare not, balk the disclosure of the heart-rending fact, that although the trade negroes ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1828
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 213 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

... 28, have been commissioned this week —the first at Chatham, for the flag-ship of Rear Admiral Griffith Colpoys, for the West Indies; and the latter at this port for the Halifax station, The Comptroller of the Navy, Sir T. Byam Martin, M P. and Sir Robert ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1829
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

POSTSCRIPT

... Ship-ownersofGlasgow, ptayinrr that the House might take into consideration the state of the trade with our Colonies in the West Indies. The petition was ordered to lie on the table, and be printed . Geprerd; Gascroigne presented a petition front certain Merchaniq ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1822
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 651 | Page: 4 | Tags: News