Diplomatic Dispatch from Copenhagen and Amsterdam
Da MONDAY's POST reports in Copenhagen on April 27 foreign illnesses, including the King, and a cold easterly wind. Four ships of the line seek to convoy ships bound for Gibraltar with 226 artillery pieces. Holland resolves to warlike plans with France, declines a separate peace with Britain, and notes U.S. minister admission. Amsterdam also notes admiral arrivals and East India convoy sighting near the Shetland Islands.
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Copenhagen
Vaistempers
Spain
Saxony
Capiz
Streights
Gibraltar
Algesiras
Ciudad Roderigo
St. Roch
Hacue
Holland
Republick
France
United States of America
Great Britain
Amsterdam
Comte Byland
de Kinsbergen
Unusual 25-foot barking shark sighting at Lower-ferry
Report from Ches ter notes a 25-foot barking shark caught near the Lower-ferry, described by Mr. Pennant. It proved too heavy to weigh with tools and was hauled ashore by twelve horses. In Tibberton, Mrs Taylor died after her head-dress caught fire from a candle.
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Surewssary
Chester
Plunder and Pursuit in India and Naval News Reach Europe
Accounts describe brutal killings in India with 180 companions slain as Hastings and a companion escape by fleeing different routes. News from the East India Company notes Dutch fleet movements, privateer actions near Zante, and a growing channel fleet. Also reported are a ferrying yacht’s costs, oats price claims, and a fatal coach accident in Hackney involving Miss Apthorpe on the eve of her planned wedding.
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War Office
England
Frederick Earl of
Carlisle
Jeffery Ekins
Thomas Percy
Dromore
Joseph Jowett
University of Cambridge
London
Henry Laurens
Young
Holland
Europe
Hastings
Calcutta
Rajael Benares
Mr. Hastings
India
East- India House
Lord Holland
Texel
East Indies
Orkneys
Ireland
Maidstone
Gifford
Zante
Egmont
Suffolk
Plymouth
Channel
Isle of Wight
House of Commons
America
Shoreditch
Hackney
Mrs. Newcombe
Miss Apthorpe
Mr. Chamberlayne
Treasury
New Long Room Tavern Opens at Bristol Hotwells
George Foreman informs the Nobility and Gentry of Bristol Hotwells that he has opened the New Long Room Tavern and Coffee House for the season. Breakfasts move to Mondays from May 20, with dinners available on short notice. The establishment offers good dining rooms neat bed chambers well aired fine wines and convenient stabling and coach houses.
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Bristol-Hotwells
Eorge Foreman
G. Foreman
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