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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040b9c00dduajq.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="70" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="66"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="76" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="66" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Falmouth Packet Archives 1688-1850</B></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Falmouth Packet Archives 16881850"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tallships Falmouth for Orders"><U>'Tallships' & "Falmouth for Orders"</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id121.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Falmouth Docks"><U>Falmouth Docks</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Falmouth Pilots"><U>Falmouth Pilots</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id144.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Training Ships based at Falmouth "><U>Training Ships based at Falmouth </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id85.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tugs Local Steamers "><U>Tugs & Local Steamers </U></A>   |   <B>Shipping Agents</B>   |   <A HREF="id116.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lifeboat"><U>Lifeboat</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id122.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Harbour Master"><U>Harbour Master</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id132.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Harbour Commissioners"><U>Harbour Commissioners</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id131.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Misc"><U>Misc</U></A></div> <div> Shipping Agents</div> <div> <I>Sherborne Mercury</I>: Falmouth November 14<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> <B>1799</B></div> <div> The <I>King George</I> packet came in from Torbay on Sunday last [10th] and on the preceding day the <I>Princess </I>packet came in from Plymouth. They had both been driven up Channel by the tempestuousness of the weather. The mails were forwarded to London from the places of arrival. [Brixham? Plymouth?]. The <I>Prince of Wales</I> packet from hence was not arrived when the <I>Prince Adolphus</I> left Lisbon; among the passengers is a nephew to Admiral Massaredo, now at Brest.</div> <div> A boat with 5 men on board, belonging to Messrs <B>G. C. Fox and Sons</B> of this town, overset on Tuesday last [12th] by which accident 2 men were drowned both of whom have left widows and a large family.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> The<I> Falmouth Packet and Cornish Herald</I>, Saturday, January 7, <B>1843.</B></div> <div> Friday's <I>Gazette </I>announces that the Queen has been pleased to approve of <B>Alfred Fox,</B> Esq., as Consul at Falmouth for his Majesty the King of Denmark.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> FP 25/4/<B>1857</B>:          Electric Telegraph</div> <div> We are pleased to hear that this object, so important to the interests of Falmouth, is to be carried into effect.  The building formerly used as Her Majesty's Packet Office, and where the foreign mails were received and despatched, has been engaged by the Electric Company to be adopted forthwith as their station in this port.  By stematic operations the Telegraph communications from this port throughout the United Kingdom and the Continent will be completed in about 2 months.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>