Swedish Minister Receives Orders On Murder Case At Biron de Sinclair
Letter from Vienna reports Swedish minister instructed in Stockholm to uncover details of the Biron de Sinclair murder. Frontiers safety orders in Hungary line bar entry for travelers from Hon beary without quarantine certificates. Guards to fire on violators. hangings ordered for bribe seekers and corrupt guards. frontiers commandants to punish with death for slipping the line. Also notes German and French recruits marching to Hungary and battle details at Grotzka with Turkish reception and Imperialist struggles. Count de Harrach travels to Marimont amid talks of four million florins in Flemish guaranty. Newport men recover a Dutch ship tied to canal duties and archduchess orders its return on payment of fisherman charges.
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Stockholm
Biron de Sinclair
Austria
Francfort
Cologne
Hungary
Grotzka
Wallis
Coune Botan Pt Eho
Brussels
Count de Harrach
Marimont
Flanders
Newport
Dunkirk
Frauds and Fires Mark a Turbulent Week in 1739 London
Rum and brandy seizures spark legal battles at the Excise. Corsican chiefs seek Naples passports while a frigate from Copenhagen lodges an envoy in Stockholm. Fire devastates Beauford Buildings and Creeke’s workshop. Stepney jailed for a pension of a wig theft. marriages and ship notices punctuate a busy port frame with imports and exports listed.
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Akfag
Bedes
Leghorn
Porto-Longono
Naples
France
Admiralty
Swissland
Dunkirk
Ufe
Deptford Dock
Broad-Street
East-India Company
St. Helen
Nassau
Duke of Cumberland
Kinfale
Excite
Westerday
Commissioners of Excise
William Stepney
Southwark
Tyffa
Falcon-Court
Peruke
Stepney
Nathaniel Trayton
Lewes
Sussex
Somerset House Chapel
Parker
Sid Walter Parker
Ratton
Bart
Beauford
Stockholm
Calais
Portugal
Rye
Mayland
Port News: Ships Pass and Winds Shift
Port entries note numerous ships including the Maftta Smith for Lisbon and the Royal Guardian Hoadley bound for East India. Vessels Britannia Franklin New Gravesend and Neptune Stephens Isabella Graves Dunkitts Mary Baily Imperial Aune Hawks Petersbourg Friendship Jacobs sail or pass by Gravesend St John the Evangelist Wittigrave Union Carstien.
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Deal
Smith
Royal Guardian
Hoadley
East-India
Dover
Britannia
Franklin
Ind
Epie
Gravesend
Neptune
Stephens
Isbella
Graves
Dunkitts
Mary
Baily
Aune
Hawks
Petersbourg
Friendship
Jacobs
Hambustg
St. John the Evangelist
Wittigrave and
Union
Carstien
Soardambourg
French Forces Build Up at Toulon and Grotzka Loss Reported
London reports from the Paxis A-la-Main that fourteen men of war are fitting at Toulon, two to sail to the Levant to protect Turkey's ships. On the 8th, the French king hunted near Montrouge, claiming 283 hares and partridges. The A-la-Main notes a loss of Imperial forces at Grotzka, about 6000 men, though the account may be uncertain without a French newspaper confirmation.
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London
Paxis A-la-Main
Toulon
Levant
N.S
Montrouge
Grotzka
Arote
South Sea Annuities and Bank Prices in Market Summary
Market notes show South Sea Annuities at 108.3 with dividend omitted and new South Sea Annuities at 106 1 qr. Bank shares quoted 137 with a Bank Deputation at 3. Premium on India 152. Three per Cent Annuities 9. Million Bank 315. Royal Exchange Assurance priced, London ditto 31, African at 13/1 half. English Gopper 31s. South.
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South Sea
Bank
Unclear OCR bond terms and lottery reference noted
Fragmentary OCR snippet lists various bond and loan terms such as Sea Bonds, Prem India, Salt Wales, Seven per Cent, Exchequer Orders, and Lottery Tickers with values like 51.45.00, but lacks coherent context or complete facts. No clear event, date, or entities can be confirmed from the readable text.
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Prem
India
Salt Wales
Property Sale Notice at Wandsworth-Hill in Dansford
Public inquiry for details on a copyhold messuage called the French Horn at Wandsworth-Hill. Occupied by John Gilbert and held of the Mayor of Dansford. Enquiries to Mr. Charles Mister, attorney at law in Tronmonger-Laie.
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French Horn
Wandsworth-Hill
John Gilbert
Dansford
Charles Mister
Tronmonger-Laie
William Hinchcliffe Lottery Office Sells Tickets in Cornhill
William Hinchcliffe advertises at Dryden's Head under the Royal Exchange in Cornhill selling tickets and shares in the Parliamentary Lottery. He keeps a daily numbered register showing tickets, prizes, and entries at 6d per ticket, offering free lottery schemes and post-paid responses. Receipts offered should be brought in to claim tickets.
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William
Hinchliffe
Dryden’s Head
Royal Exchange
Cornhill
Great Britain
Treland
Lives of notable figures in an 18th century biographical volume
A London publisher list describes This Day is published a Royal licence book containing twenty sheets with lives of Rostommion Howe the Poet Mrs Rowe Lady Ruffel Dr George Rust and other eminent figures. It advertises an English translation of a celebrated work and notes acknowledgments to patrons who supplied materials for the new Lives and hope for continued assistance.
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Rostommion
Howe
Rowe
Lord Ruffel
George Rust
Dromore
Ireland
Hayle
Paris
Britain
Bayle
Scepselfin
Fihn Peter Barnard
F.R.S
Thomas Birch
A. F. RS
John Lockman
G., Strahan
J.clarke
Cornhill
J. Gray
Poulery
J’ Wood
Paternoster Row
Js Shuckburgh
C. Corbet
G. Hawkins
Fleet-streets
York
Scarborough
J. Lettenham
E. Cave
St. John’s Gate
Eneah
Tlémnen
Descriptions of Unknown Animals and Birds from Angolan Coast
A nineteenth century advertisement notes a publication offering natural history illustrations of rare animals and birds. It highlights engravings of creatures from Angola and Guinea, with figures of each animal, plus instructions to rear canaries and breed birds, all printed by Richard Ware and others in London.
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Canalis
Goppe
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Vienna
London Bridge
Firth
Galeth D’anvers
Robert Walpole
R. Francklin
Roffel-street Covent-Garden
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