The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany: A New Series of the Scots Magazine, Volume 42Brymer, Murray and Cochran., 1780 |
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... frigate , of 32 guns , 18. read Polyhymnia This Died , at Poplar , June 8. 1780 , aged 68 , Mary East . This woman passed for a man thirty - five years ; -kept a public house , served all the offices of the parish , and attended ...
... frigate , of 32 guns , 18. read Polyhymnia This Died , at Poplar , June 8. 1780 , aged 68 , Mary East . This woman passed for a man thirty - five years ; -kept a public house , served all the offices of the parish , and attended ...
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... frigates , and a number of transports and victual- lers , with 5000 troops on board , said to have come from France with Monf . de la Motte Piquet ; that 12,000 men more , with 4 or 5000 militia , were preparing to invade Jamaica ; and ...
... frigates , and a number of transports and victual- lers , with 5000 troops on board , said to have come from France with Monf . de la Motte Piquet ; that 12,000 men more , with 4 or 5000 militia , were preparing to invade Jamaica ; and ...
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... frigates , fix fire - ships ; -18,600 men inrolled to serve on board so fall of the line and fix frigates , can at any time fail at ten days notice . - Reve- nue 4,200,000l . per ann . ' " " Warsaw , Dec. I. The Ruffians , who have been ...
... frigates , fix fire - ships ; -18,600 men inrolled to serve on board so fall of the line and fix frigates , can at any time fail at ten days notice . - Reve- nue 4,200,000l . per ann . ' " " Warsaw , Dec. I. The Ruffians , who have been ...
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... frigates , failed from the Texel . They were under French colours ; but it is said , that on their arrival at Breft , Jones is to command the Serapis , and Conyngham the Alliance ; and that these two , with three frigates , and two ...
... frigates , failed from the Texel . They were under French colours ; but it is said , that on their arrival at Breft , Jones is to command the Serapis , and Conyngham the Alliance ; and that these two , with three frigates , and two ...
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... frigate Amazon , of 36 guns . - His Ma- jefty's ship Experiment , Capt . Sir James Wallace , having loft all her masts and bowsprit in a gale of wind , on her paf- sage from New York to Savannah , fell into the middle of the French ...
... frigate Amazon , of 36 guns . - His Ma- jefty's ship Experiment , Capt . Sir James Wallace , having loft all her masts and bowsprit in a gale of wind , on her paf- sage from New York to Savannah , fell into the middle of the French ...
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