Visit of Francis de Capua to Naples and European news
Naples reports Francis de Capua General of the Galleys of the Order of Malta arriving with his fleet to the port after patrolling the Sicilian seas. The viceroy housed him and supplied equipage during his stay. Dispatches from Malta note Inquisition trials with several prisoners, one priest executed, others imprisoned. Additional items cover earthquakes near Siena, plague in Smyrna and Alexandria, wheat shortages in Sicily, and Paris dispatches on European congress diplomacy led by Cardinal de Fleury with talks at Soissons.
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Francis de Capuas
Order of Malta
Sicily
Barbary
Malta
Tribunal of the Inquisition
Holy Office
Molinos
Rome
General Congregation of the Inquisition
Milan
Cardinal Cufani
Count Daun
Marquess Castelli
Turin
Cardinal Ferreri
Sienna
Auz
Arno
Florence
Grand Duke
Despond
Fene
France
Great Britain
Don Carlos
Italy
Gensa
Barcelona
Marquess de Kisbourg
Montjouy
Leghorn
Louisa
Lisbon
Portugal
Holy See
Smyrna
Alexandria
Paris
Cardinal de Fleury
Europe
Soisfons
Parma
Placentia
Spain
Naples
Duke of Orleans
Oratory Evening Show at Lincoln's Inn Fields
The notice advertises an evening at the Oratory near Clare-market with varied entertainments including chimes, a private audience, lectures on English valor, a course on anatomy, and notable items from Buckles to eclipses. Henley’s Answers and other Oratory works are advertised as available.
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Oyez
Oyex
St. James's
Norris
Rome
London
D. Carlos
Italy
Sardinia
Spain
Tunbridge
K. of Prufsia
Poland
France
N. B. Just
Henley
Oratory
Embassy to Constantinople and royal notices from London
The Earl of Kinnoul sails for Constantinople next Saturday with Messengers to the Prince of Wales. On Monday Mr. Mundy and Mr. Pepper are ordered as Messengers. Gunner changes at Hampshire and South-Sea Castle. Mr. James Jones succeeds. Ink Powder maker Mr. John Austin dies. Horsley New Church to finish this week with a copper gilt sun flame atop a fluted stone pillar. Christ Church Spitalfields to hire two lecturers, expected to earn above ryals per year.
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Earl of Kinnoul
Gravesend
Constantinople
Mundy
Mr. Pepper
Prince of Wales
Katt
Mr. Steel
Hampshire
James Jones
South-Sea Castle
John Austin
Horsleydown
Nicolas Hawkmere
Christ Church Spittlefields
Ryal
Ann
Electioneering talk and executions from the Old Bailey
The report lists candidates including Rev. Mr. Dubordieu and Rev. Mr. Lewis with other clergymen as election contenders. It notes the Convicts Grundy Kemp and Wildman ordered to execution, mercy shown to Pawtree Hatley and Frazier, and a Tyburn warrant for the three earlier convicts. A barge accident injures a man near Thames Street. Market prices and financials from South Sea stock and other securities are recorded, followed by notices about a bridge subscription payment and a customs sale of goods at the London Custom House. A reward is offered for lost scarlet silk seechings found at the Portman Coffee House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubordieu
Lewis
Brown
Shoreditch
Clements
Raby
Old Baily
Her Majesty In Council
Thomas James Grundy
Joseph Kemp
Benjamin Wildman
Her
John Pawtree
Hannah Hatley
Susanna Frazier
Newgate
Tyburn
John Hewett
Thames Street
Fishmongers Hall
Commissioners of Excise
Daily Post
Hinman
Putney Bridge
Cuper’s Stairs
John Somerton
Philips
St. Thomas’s Hospital
To be Sold One Horse Chaises by Mr. John Stanley
Auction notice for handsome compleat one horse chaises in new fashion. Describes models performed in nearest manner. Located in Little Gray's Inn Lane near the Bar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cergatre
John Stanley
Little Gray’s
Ina Lane
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Elizabeth of
Lorrain
Duke of
Luneville
Madrid
Gortz
Gibraltar
Minorca
Algiers
Hanover
Lunenbourg
Newstadiam-Rubemberg
Aix
Gobre
Zell
Herenhaufen
South Sea
India
Royal Exchange Assurance London Assurance
York
Welch
Fulham
Putney
Whitehall
Eden
Custom-House
His Majesty’s Customs
Custom- House
Geneva
King’s Ware-house
N. B
Chapanzer
Pacer-nofter-Row
Royal Exchange
Portzal
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