[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 20 Jul 1811 - Gallant Action

[petra.mitchinson at doctors.org.uk]

Yes, I use an asterisk to signify individual letters or numbers I am
unable to read. 

Petra 

On 25-02-2020 10:57, medion--- via List-Cumbria wrote:

> 53 deg. N. lat. and 2* deg. W. long is just NW of Cheadle, Cheshire.
> 
> I assume that the * is not a blank but another digit, placing the action many miles out into the Atlantic.
> 
> Just an observation!
> 
> Brian 
> 
> Saturday 20 Jul 1811   (p. 3, col. 4) 
> 
> GALLANT ACTION. 
> 
> QUEBEC, May 2d [_or _20?], 1811.--The following are the particulars of the action between the brig Fortune of Workington, and a French privateer brig of 16 guns, and about 120 men, which, from we can collect [_sic_], exceeds in brilliancy the action of the Cumberland.
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