Empress plans three great canals joining seas
From Petersburgh to sunshine the Empress pursues a grand project to link three waterways. A Kilima junction would connect the Caspian and White seas. A Wyrega-Hotcha route would unite Baltic with Caspian via Onega. A Baltic-Black Sea canal would link Cherron Petersburgh and Riga. Paris reports Dutch talks with Ministers as mediation nears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caspian
White Seas
Kilima
Baltic
Wyrega
Hotcha
Onega
White Lake
Black Seas
Russia
Cherron
Petersburgh
Riga
Paris
France
Mons. Rayneval
The
Hague
Post Masters General Office Granted to Carteret and Walsingham
London dispatch from the London Gazette reports the King appointing the Right Hon. Lord Carteret and Right Hon. Lord Walsingham as Postmaster General. A Council order extends quarantine to ships from Mediterranean ports due to the plague at Algiers. News covers Dutch bank disturbances, naval preparations at Portsmouth Plymouth and Chatham, and Lord George Gordon’s awkward journey ending in Harwich. Counterfeit Gazette Extraordinary circulated at the Royal Exchange with alarming French troop movements from Brussels toward Holland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitehall
Lord Carteret
Lord Walsingham
Mediterranean
Spain
Minorca
Gibraltar
Algiers
Lond
Gaz
Paris
Board of Admiralty
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Chatham
Admiralty
Elliot
St. Jamies’s
France
Holland
Hague
Amsterdam
Province of
George Gordon
Harwich
Hoff
Lord George
Secretary of State
Royal Exchange
St. James’s
Biefbach
Swanlow
Dordrecht
Keen
Alderman Pickett
Guildhall
Mefl
Axtell
Emerson
Dean
Alice Lawrence
Alderman Picket
George the First
John St. Quintin
Norwich
West
Boston
Portugal
Botany Bay
Madeiras
Ranger
India House
Dover
China
Mercury
Old Elliot’s Garden
William Farrington
Fean
London
Middlesex
Normandy
Hampshire
Wilsshire
Towcester
Davis
White-Horse Inn
Essex
Lord Petre
Strutt
Oxford
Radcliff Infirmary
St. Mary’s Church
Christ Church
Douglas
Hall
Hine
Dr. Hayes
P. Hayes
Fermona
Star Inn
Lord Parker
William Fermor
Lord Crewe
Richard Jackson
University of Dublin
Coleraine
Ireland
Foster
Thomas Wesley
Esq. Batchelor
Oxfordshire Regiment
Fabricated gazette scandal and public notices unfold
Alderman Pickett orders re examination after a woman sold a forged extraordinary gazette to silence alarms. Authorities search pamphlet shops for more forgeries as treasonous acts. Reports recount past convictions, ship letters, and naval fortifications as well as Oxford commemorations and concerts.
Turbulent rider and stud news from Lewes and Gloucester
Report from Auston near Tewkesbury recounts a drunken horseman Taylor who cursed at gatekeepers, fell from his horse and died shortly after. Also notes a farmer’s death in Chepstow market route. Gen. Eliott’s stud passes through Lewes on way to Bayly Park with three stallions and three Spanish jackasses. Local counties struggle with burnt marsh grass. public notices call for cutters. Advertisement for Spilsbury’s Drops claims to treat scurvy gout rheumatism and other blood disorders with a 5s bottle in Bridgewater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glocester
Mr. Taylor
Auston
Tewkesbury
Cirencester Market
Chepstow Market
Lewes
Funeos
Eliott
Portsmouth
Gibraltar
Bayly Park
John Trayton Fuller
Somersetshire
Sam
Croker
Dragoff
Bridgewater
Mr. Spilsbury
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Sunpayy
Tugrspay
Foreign Affairs
Petersspurch
London Gazette
Cholar
Benwell
Hayes
Country News
Bristol
Philadelphia
Birmingham
Warter Kerr
Matter
Crane
No. 19
TOOC
Josefu Smith
Maller
Norfolk
Virginia
Baltimore
Maryland
Willtiam Cooke
Harris
CuHarteston
South Carolina
New Fork
Pseggy
Charles Dekay
G. Watson
Junr
Dorchester
England
Dorset
Saint Peter
James Besant
Parih
Wales
CARR
Mulliner
TEAA
Fat the
Dophin-ftreet
No. 16
Unionstreet
St. Nicholas
Eleanor Houldy
David Lewis
Shurmer Bath
Stokes-Croft
Robert Simpson
Castle-{treet
Semple Cross
Avon
Messrs. Cross, Allanson, and Co
M. Hawking
Queen Square
Brittol
John Miller
Redclift-street
Cave, Millea
Williams
N. B
Cuxese Lane
St. Philip and Jacob
Hanham
Brislington
Als
Jenkins
Union Street
Briitel
Albion Road
Aboose Hield
Somerset
Zvchenham
M’ran- Aud
Burcamse
George Vowles
Tne Daid
Messrs
Wuinobey and Son
Corn-street
Exchange Coffee-House
Stapleton
Joseph Hutton
Little Marsh Lane
St. George
Lawford’s Gate
Solomon Leonard
Lawrence-Hill
Yendall
Neg
Barteey
Morcan
Suallfeet
Bridgwater
Chale
Abby
Meffrs
Osporne
Szacear
Riftol
James Keir & Co
Denmark-street
Gerard-street
Soho
Josep Beach
Exchange
Somerset Street
King Square
Kingsdown
Comniery
Georcs James
St. James’s Church-Yard
Uth R
Loxnpon-Derry
London-Derry
Foyle
Rutherford, Coningham and Sterling
B.P. Wacner and Co
Derry
Funer
Shakespeare
Heath, Walker
Burney
Smirk and Corbould
Heath
Boem
Shepherd
Bellamy and Co
St. Dunstan’s Church
Fleet-street
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