North Carolina loses a guest as Scottish heroine Flora Macdonald returns to the island of Skye. We'll return to Europe with her. English technology flourishes. The world's first iron bridge is built in Coalbrookdale. And Samuel Crompton invents a spinning jenny for the textile industry that manages 48 threads at one time.
Crime also flourishes.
Lord Sandwich's mistress, a Miss Ray, spurns the attentions of a Mister Hackman. He shoots her dead in front of Covent Garden, then attempts unsuccessfully to take his own life. The courts and the hangman will save him the bother. We have to end our own year of 1997 with some more pleasant 1779 fare. For Classical ninety-one five, this is David Minor.