Fading French Letters Show Iberian War Threats
Reports from the coast describe Spanish plans to seize Lombardy and Milan through Sardinian neutrality while King Philip V seeks an allied treaty. Failing French and Italian garrisons threaten Milan and Lodi. Sardinia's King Charles Emmanuel III is urged to oppose Madrid. The voyage of the English squadron near Augustine is noted with ship recoveries and captures.
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Spain
Htaly
Dutchy
Sardinia
Turin
Hungary
Italy
Pyrenees
Alps
Duke of Montemar
Savoy
Madrid
Duchy of
Milan
Don Philip
Lombardy
Mirandola
Ome
Frederica Pursues Spanish Privateer Off Augustine Bar
General Oglethorpe learns a large ship anchors off the bar. Boats are sent and find a Spanish Privateer sloop commanded by Capt Destrade and a three mast ship. The force includes Adjutant Maxwell Eyre surgeon mates serjeants corporals drummers and 125 private men. The pursuit proceeds with Guard Sloop Faulcon schooner Norfolk and detachment as storm brews.
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Castle
Augustine
Metanzas
Frederica
Tybee
William Scant
Hawk
R. Wiliams
Richard Owen
David Randall
Ames Drew
George Edwards
Matthew Mangler
John Mahony
Wm. Henry
John Henry
Richard Addison
David Cunningham
Dominick Sasheld
William Staff
Edward Brookifl
Thomas Eaton
Andrew Thompson
Flounder
Tho. Maria
Thomas Barton
Martha
Heron
Defbrifay
Mackay
Tanner
Hogan
Sterling
Wemyms
Howarth
Destrade
Maxwell
Thomas Eyre
Ruby Aground at Black Middens with Valuable Cargo
On Sunday night the Ruby, Captain Mangles, bound for Newcastle from London, drove on the Black Middens near Tinmouth Bar after a severe gale. Soldiers secured the cargo from theft by locals and were aiding in salvage as the vessel rode the rocks.
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Country News
Newcastle
Mangles
London
Tinmouth Bar
Port News Arrivals and Departures Across British Ports
Ports from Whitehaven to Deal report a flurry of arrivals including Argyle Jackson Phenix Mermaid Expedition Packer and Christopher Merley and ships from Barbados Lisbon Petersbourg Newfoundland and Jamaica. Departures include Two Brothers Jolliff and Bridgwater Dolphin Swift and Upnor Castle with several outward-bound vessels and mass arrivals noted at Southampton and Gravesend.
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Port News
Whitehaven
Arriv
Argyle
Jackson
Phenix
Maryland
Tweedon
Nicholson
Mermaid
Littledale
Barbados
Falmouth
Christopher
Bilby
Petersbourg
Merley
Taylor
Jolliff
Thompson
Dublin
Deal
His Majesty
Bridgwater
Dolphin
Sheal
Southampton
Swift
Brown
Jamaica
Hound
Barbadoes Mercham
Leicester
Barbadoes
Dover
Hawk
Drake
W.S. W
News from Naples to London a scattered foreign dispatch
Letters from Naples report a courier carrying news that Spanish troops landed at Porto-Hercule and Orbitello on the Tuscan coast, prompting the court to organize stages for troops marching through the Ecclesiastical State. Leghorn merchants seek protection from Spaniards and Bohemia reports stir about Neuperg’s movements.
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Naples
N.S
Peruct
Porto-Hercule
Orbitello
Tuscany
Leghorn
Florence
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Holland
Squirrel
John Brown
Polly
Prince Edward, Dawson
Ratifoon
Bohemia
Count Neuperg
Olmitz
Austria
Chrudin
Czarlaw
Sazwa
Moldau
Neuperg
Stabnitz
Electorate of Bavaria
Upper Palatinate
Brussels
French Flanders
St. Paul
Pearce
Winchester
Lisle
Wadham College
Oxford
Canterbury
East India Company
Court of
Botolph Wharf
Day
Shore
Bath
Vernon
Ludgate-street
Laft
Duke-street
Westhinster
James Joye
Ely
Charles Henshaw
Newgate
Justice Ellers
Mr. Desborough
Chelsea
Elizabeth Windsor
Col. de Veil
Powell
Theatre Royal
Drury- Lane
Provox
P WiFs
Covent Garden
Persens
Andromeda
Goodman’s Fields
Vaiet
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