From Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 12 January 1779
The Townside privateer, Watworth [Watmough], of Liverpool, is returned from a
cruize, having weathered the gale. On the 21st of December [1778], she took the Liris
[sic; L'Iris, French, captain Pinatel],
from the East Indies, laden with 974 bales, 102 half bales, 14 bags, 6 bales
(Bourbon) Mocha coffee, 19 bales senna, 47 bales gum arabic, 89 pieces ebony,
6 bales cotton thread, 31 bales white cloth, 1 bale muslin, 4 trunks dry
goods, 1 case China paper, 2 small cases bamboo sarons[musical instruments?], 1
small case silks, 2 cases China plates, 3 parcels cinnamon, 1 case Japan
plates, 2 barrels tortoise shell, 4 pieces callico, and 2 pieces ditto work'd;
but she was drove on shore near Beaumaris, part of the cargo is saved, and the
vessel gone to pieces.
Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 02 February 1779
GOODS Imported at the Port of LIVERPOOL. From the 15th to the 29th of January.
In the William and Jane, from the wreck of the Iris, F. Pinatel, Master, prize
to the Townside, J. Watmough, master. J and T. Hodgson: 173 pieces calicoes, 1
chest, 2 bales muslins, 2 japan dressing boxes, 1 bale coffee, 2 bales gum
arabic, 1 bundle cinnamon, sundry sails, rigging and other materials.