Mail from Holland Vienna November 30 describes troops moves
Yesterday a mail from Holland reports that Poland and Prussia are assembling troops to monitor the Elector of Bavaria and uphold the Pragmatic Sanction. The Queen has named the Great Duke of Tuscany Regent of Austria and hereditary provinces, likely extending to Hungary and Bohemia. Konigsegg infantry marches to Tyrol to reinforce Kufstein, three Maximilian Starenberg battalions and two grenadier companies move to Linz to secure the frontiers. count de la Perouze, Bavarian envoy, left a protest with the Ceure before departure.
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Poland
Prussia
Bavaria
Tustany
Austria
Hungary
Bohemia
Konigsegg
Tyroleze
Kuffstein
Maximilian Starenberg
Grennadiers
Lintz
Count de la Perouze
Ceure
Irish Privateers and Crime Report From Dublin
From Jamaica accounts a small Sloop Privateer with 18 hands brought in a Spanish Sloop loaded with brandy and another Privateer seized a Spanish Snow with cocoa and jewels. Reports from Kilkenny Nenagh Eyre Court recount robberies, torture of a witness, a boy killing a path of robbers, and gang activity in Galway. Revenue allows free export of utter and fish. A shop-lifting incident yields plunder found in a hollow cellar. A boy bears injury and a man from Bandon-Bridge marries Miss Hoadley, daughter of Archbishop Hoadly.
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Dublin
Jamaica
Canaries
Carthagena
Leguira
Kilkenny
Kelly
Kellymount
Nenagh
Tipperary
Eyre Court
Gallway
His Majesty’s Revenue
Thomas-treet
Hanover-Lane
Alderman Walker
Newgate
Bellingham Boyle
Bandon-Bridge
Cork
Hoadley
John Hoadly
Rutherford Admired For Nobility And Grace
A fragment praises Sir John Rutherford likened to a fine young lady with a handsome famines, reflecting a stylistic compliment from the period and noting esteemed lineage and refinement.
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Sir John Rutherford
Vernon Privateer prize sinks valuables off Grand Canary
Bristol reports the Vernon Privateer Bonamy captured a Dutch ship carrying ammunition for Spaniards, along with cables, anchors, silks, and cambrics valued between 18,000 and 20,000. Seven Spaniards and many others were taken, treated humanely, and the prize was commanded by Mr Read of the Vernon. круп
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Bristol
Bonamy
Grand Canaries
Nore
Read
Vernon
England
Constantine
Whitchurch
Venice
Gibraltar
Port News From Cowes and Gravesend Christmas Sailings
Port and Downs reports show several tenders and merchant ships arriving from Falmouth Lisbon Oporto Antigua and Maryland. Vessels like Houghton Nassau and Crawford Transport reach their ports while wind shifts drive most outward-bound ships under sail.
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Cowes
Tilly
Dove
Falmouth
Spithead
Martha
Girard
South Carolina
Clark
Cobb
Oporto
Lynn
Houghton
Hancock
Lisbon
Prince William
Menock
Hambourg
Deal
His
Eltham
Cruizer
Downs
Bladen
Adams
Boston
Bonetta
Hammond
Jamaica
Britannia
Carolina
Sarah
Roberts
Rider
Chester
Nathaniel
Botton
Succes
Preston
Maryland
Hallam
St. Lawrence
Petersbourg
William and Mary
Palgrave
Yarmouth
Commodore Pizarro sails to the West Indies from St Andero
From Madrid letters dated November 1 report Commodore Pizarro with five or six ships weighed anchor again after a storm and departed for the West Indies. Paris reports a rumor that an English seizure occurred off Hispaniola involving a French king’s ship used for provisioning.
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Hague
Madrid
Pizarro
St. Andero
West- Indies
Paris
America
Hispaniola
Extract of a Letter from Peterscourt recounts uprisings
The letter describes Count Munich storming the Duke of Courland's apartment and a fierce defense by the Duke's guards and the Duchess of Courland. It notes arrests, treason charges, and orders to Moscow to arrest Count Charles de Biron. It reports a bridge lottery drawing and multiple obituaries and legal cases including a pepper theft acquittal.
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Peterscourt
Count Munich
Duke of
Courland
Munich
Courtland
Gittavus de Biron
Moscow
Charles de Biron
Revel-Dorpt
Livonia
Ingria
Duke of Couland
Prussia
Prusian
Cleves
Ordnance Magazine
Guernsey
Stationers Hall
Owen Hages
Bangor
Kent Street Road
Daniel Symords
Stevens
Hodges
Dowgate-Ward
Camberwell Church
Belov
Thomas Mellor
Lombard Street
Edmund Parker
Wickes
Camomile Street
Wapping
East India Company
Dartmouth
Robert Ryland
London
Oporto
Bigbury Bay
Plymouth
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Titty
Irvine
Dolphin
Alexander Pringle
Whitebank
Sifanna Rutherford
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