Naples Feast Transforms Streets With Royal Pageant
Naples on July 15 saw a royal audience as Queen Amelia welcomed foreign ministers and nobility. A 12th carriage parade culminated in public plunder, featuring courtiers and Dutchesses in ornate disguises. The article notes Europe’s noble classes expanding overseas while Britain preserves primogeniture rather than general nobility.
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St. Amelia
Bacchus
Toledo
Andria
Monte Jeon
Marchioness
del Vaglio
Savignan
Prince Pignatelli
Cardines
Monteleon
Marquess del Vaglio
Innocent
St. Julian
Pompey Picolomini
Philip Vacigeliano
Della Riccia
de Striano
Cariati
Count de Policastro
Europe
Britain
Shipping News: Outward-bound fleets altered and arrivals report
Port news records ships: Downs remain in port under his majesty's ships Elizabeth Augusta and Dunkirk. Outward-bound vessels fail to sail including St. Peter Stevens for Gibraltar Charles Read for Carolina John and Eliza Abrahams for Portugal. Arziv'd George White and Heathcote Cape from India with southwest wind.
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Deal
The
Downs
Elizabeth
Augusta
Dunkirk
Fail
St. Peter
Stevens
Gibraltar
Charles
Read
Carolina
John
Eliza
Abrahams
Portugal
Arziv
George
White
Heathcote
Cape
India
London London Madrid letters July 29 report Royal marriages and court news
Letters from Madrid recount the Festivals for the marriage of the King of the Two Sicilies and Royal Household movements to Buena Retiro and El Escorial. En voy exchanges include Mr Keene the British envoy pressing security declarations, Dutch ambassador Vander Meer to Sant Ildefonso, and new Knights appointed to the Order of St Januarius. Also noted are an Academy of History, the Protectorate for the Academy of Physick, and a funded convent dedication in Rome. Nearby notes cover a Majorcan defense stance, tax reform in Beauvais parishes, a remarkable clock by Baudart, a Hertfordshire marriage, trade and shipping updates, and stock prices at London luck.
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Great Britain
Europe
West Indies
M. Vander Meer
States General of the
United Provinces
Sr. Ildefonso
Holland
Royal Library
Academy of Physick
Rome
M. Mark Ciarsabelletti
Cantalupo
Shirres
Barigel
Genazzano
Paris
Beauvais
Versailles
Sieur Baudart
Stanislaus
Courtille
Perseus
Andromeda
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Watermens Company
Commissioners of Excise
Roberts
Excise
Gustom Houst
Brown
Parslow Wood
Essex
Merry-d Andrew
Merry-Batchelor
Merry-Andrew
Viscount Bollingbroke
Warwickshire
Robert Knight
Jan
Great Grimsby
Spain
Guernsey
Feilding
Hallam
London Bridge
South Sea
Sch. Bank
Bank Circuarion
Vorce
Royal Exchange
Prem
Ditco
Sale
Ditto
Mine Adventure
Louisa
Bengal
Bombay
Bencoolen
United Company of Merchants of England
East Indies
Handkerch
Ballafore
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