French and Spaniards seize key positions in Piedmont campaign
Reports from Laon and multiple European ports detail French and Spanish forces breaching entrenchments in the Bellins valley and at Tour du Pont. Chateau Dauphin captured opens a passage into Piedmont plains, with Conti praised for courage and leadership. Aeneas-like scenes of war and praise for troops follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valley of
Bellins
Tour du Pont
Chateau Dauphin
Piedmont
Daug
Provence
Prince of
Sten
Luxembourg
France
Font A Mouffon
Malgrange
Champ d’Eu
Luneville
Hanover
Elector of
Francfort
Mentz
Triers
Pamberg
Wurtzbourg
Germany
Brussel
Count Saxe
Flanders
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Philipsbourg
Strasbourg
Erifgau
Fort Louis
Landau
Europe
Brussels
Aremberg
Lisle
Maurice of Nassau
Hague
Waffenaer
Twickel
Calliver
Constantinent
Rome
Antinovi
Albert Busli
Vitelli
Perugia
Arta, Todi
Saffo Ferrato
Scarborough and Wolf Sloop Reached River Passage
Port News reports that on August 8 a royal ship Scarborough and Wolf Sloop sail’d for the river this forenoon and the Lenox Man of War remains in command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Scarborough
Privateer prize captures in Caribbean and Atlantic reports
A Newport report details Captain James Allen in the Revenge Denaro returning from a cruize with a prize sloop armed with eight carriage and twelve swivel guns and forty men. She fought Dutch colors, killed a privateer gunner, yielded 25,000 unifi'd dollars plus 5000 in plate value, and a cargo. Other items include a Spanish privateer Humingbird's captures near Antigua, a prize laden with cocoa condemned at Cape Fear, a galley loss at Charleston, a church bell disaster, boiling springs cure, notable deaths, a suffocated woman found at Wandsworth, and a vast import of sugar and cocoa at the port gate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
James Allen
Havanna
Lami
Jamaica
Antigua
Morgan
New York
Boston
Graham
Barbadoes
South Carolina
Alexander Kirtie
Philadelphia
New-York
Nevis
Robert Leonard
Daniel Smith
Cape-Fear
Charles Town
South-Carolina
Charles-Town
Carteret County
Coure-Sourid
North-Carolina
S. W
N. W
New River
Appointment and election notices in London tradesmen and officials
Edward Strangeways was appointed Purveyor to the British Forces at Ottend Bruges and Ghent replacing Christopher Medlicott who resigned. Lords of the Admiralty named Mr Steward Pay-Master of Chatham Yard in place of the late Mr Leddington. A Leatherfellows Hall ward meeting elected three Common Councilmen Messrs Tuff Hall Poole and Fawdery replacing deceased. Rev Alexander Newton married Miss Marta Gowton at Guildford in Surrey. she is from Brook Street Grosvenor Square and noted as a beauty with a fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Strangeways
Ely
Ottend
Bruges
Ghent
Christopher Medlicott
Lords of the Admiralty
Steward
Chatham-Yard
Leddington
Deceas
Leatherfellers Hall
Samuel Pennant
Bishopsgate
Francis Cokayne
Cornhill
William Poole
Robert Fawdery
John Tuff
Henry Hall
William Huffey
Alexander Newton
Worcester
Guildford
Surrey
Marta Gowton
Brook Street
Grosvenor Square
Financial rates and bonds from a historic market page
The notice lists yesterday's prices for South Sea Stock and Annuities, New South Sea Annuities, Bank shares and Circulation, India bonds, Emperor's Loans, Exchequer Orders, and Three Percent and Five Percent issues. It records bid and offer levels in old currency, including discounts and odd lots, reflecting a mid 18th century market summary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Sea
New South Sea
Bank
Aos
India
Also Mentioned on This Page
Laon
Plantation News
Salisbury Court
Flees Street
Hughes
Shanks
Somersetshire
John Gifford
Bridport
Dorset
Westbury
Wilts
Wandsworth
West-Indies
Arras
Prussia
Prague
Low Countries
Stric
Nassau
Gibraltar
Edward Lisle
England
London
George Cockayne
Rose-Lane
Nunn and Company
Bartholomew Lane
Royal Exchange
Ruan
Wz 83 and
Thomas Rawlins
Oln N.B
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