Paris Letter Reveals Hussar Plot to Desert Seize Men
Extract from Paris dated Dec 12 reports a Captain in Kafky’s Hussars planning desertion with a lieutenant to seize 70 men by oath and attack those who refuse. The plot failed when the lieutenant’s ally tried to dissuade him, was wounded, and the governor ordered arrests and disarming of the regiment. The piece also notes royal amusements and Mantle works at Versailles including Goblins pieces of Neptune, Ceres, Jupiter and Cupid with gold ground and rich ornament.
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Hey
Huninguen
Kafky
Hussars
Versailles
Flora
Neptune
Ceres
Jupiter
Mars
St. Paul’s
Ince
Gibbon
Joseph Taylor
St.Dunstan’s
Fleet-street
Bridewell
St. Christopher’s
King
St. Miles’s Crooked-Lane
Kemp
Thames-street
Fountain-Tavern
Southwark
Hargrove
Waltham-Green
Parsons-Green
Thomas Malyn
St. Mary Overy’s
Parith
Houndsditch
Fletcher
Bishopsgate Street
Advertisers and Trade Schemes Stir Public Morality
A letter to the Daily Post rebukes price-cutting ads as harmful to commerce and posterity. It argues adverts spur undercutting, envy, and dishonorable aims, threatening public welfare, then cites current local notices about road lamps, marriages, trials, church appointments, and crime as context for civic concerns.
Port News Summary of Downes and Westward Sailings
Deal dated December 5 lists several ships in the Downs including the Bonetta Comyns bound for Jamaica the Pearl Price for Leghorn the Dorothy and Mary Butler for Cadiz the John and Martha Collins for Dublin and the Blandford sailing Westward Arrived Calidon Hall from Virginia with a northwesterly wind.
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Deal
Downs
Bonetta
Comyns
Carolina
Prince William
Reynolds
Jamaica
Pearl
Price
Leghorn
Dorothy
Mary
Butler
Cadiz
John
Martha
Collins
Dublin
Blandford
Calidon
Hall
Virginia
N. W
Bracowitz Letters Pause Duke Montemar News From Pisa
News from Pisa via Paris reports General Bracowitz arrived with letters from Count Khevenhuller for the Duke de Montemar and the Emperor. The Duke sent the dispatch back to Vienna, claiming something amiss. Spain appears quiet in Pisa as winter plans form. Royal family moves from Kensington to St James's for winter, with Princess Louisa entering year thirteen and a ball hosted by the Duke of Cumberland in St James's.
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Pisa
Paris
Bracowitz
Count Khevenhuller
Duke de Montemar
Vienna
Holland
Duke
Amelia
Carodine
Mary
Louisa
Kensington
St. Faffies’s
Duke of Cumberland
St. Jamies’s
Bankrupts in York and Lincoln and Surrey listings
Bankrupts named as Robert Mouddy a Hornsey shop keeper Samuel Thirkill Sutton St Marcy Lincoln chandler John Ashion Southwark distiller. High Water at London Bridge 16 minutes after in the afternoon.
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Robert Mouddy
Hornsey
County of
York
Samuel Thirkill
Sutton St. Marcy’s
Lincoln
John Ashion
Southwark
Surrey
London Bridge
Market brief of international stocks and bonds
The snippet lists South Sea Stock and An onimes prices, Bank and India securities, Royal Exchange Assurance, London Assurance, African and English caper, premium rates, three per cent annuities, Exchequer bonds, and other financial instruments with scattered values. It reads as a market summary of quoted securities and premiums from a historical newspaper page.
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South Sea
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Afsurance
Fnla
Mine Adventure
Emperoe’s
Loaa U& Cor
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The
Daily Post
Hyde Park
Thomas Vernon
Middle- Temple
Ely
Somersex-House Chaple
Nicol
John Nicol
Hendon
Middlesex
Lord Trevor
Highwood Hill
Nixon
Westminster Hall
Spiutle
Theatre Royal
Drury Lane
Fall
Phaeton
Covent-Garden
Porus
Lincoln’s-Inn - Fields
Bony
Brita
Port News
London
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