Mail from Holland reports Dutch and Italian theaters in flux
News from multiple capitals details Keith's Finland report to the Grand Duchess, Cossacks and Calmucks raiding German territory, Spanish troops ordered back from Lombardy, and Bavarian movements. Prague captured. Lobkowitz seeks resignation. London dispatches head for Berlin as Weser actions arise. Naples ferries artillery westward. Sardinia guards frontiers. Madrid notes Navarre’s Cadiz voyage and Toulon squadron. Venice plans 36,000 continental troops. Italian frontier tensions rise.
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Eneral Keith
Wybourg
Finland
Via
Eoe
Rome
Cardinal Acquaviva
Cardinal Tencin
Tuscany
Spain
Leghorn
Lombardy
Barcelona
Vienna
Prague
Upper Austria
Freudtadt
Danube
Italy
Bavaria
Lobkowitz
Hanover
London
Berlin
Naples
Orbitello
Duke de Castropignan
Abruzzia
Milan
Florence
Wallis
Sardinia
Madrid
Navarre
Cadiz
Cape Spartel
Toulon
Malaga
Carthagena
France
Venice
Senate
Levant
Assur
Republick
Alttrians
Friestad
Lintz
Budewitz
European News From London War Dispatches and Affairs
London letters report Austrian retreat toward Austria Great Duke of Tuscany departs for Presburg Paris talks aim pacification Earl Warner to London succeeding d Ostein at Versailles Prague reports Elector of Bavaria welcomed by nobles and council in audience with swords laid aside naval supplies and stores ordered for Gibraltar Port Mahon and Rio de Janeiro voyage plans, with a brutal country incident and stolen goods to newsstand.
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London
Francfort
Austria
Presbourg
Paris
Fleury
Empire
Baron Warner
N.S
d’Ostein
M. de Koch
Versalles
Prague
Bavaria
Strasbourg
Greaves
Temple
Eig
Customs
Michaelmas
Aldborough
Eleanor
Rio de Janeiro
Anne
Prince George of
Denmark
Admiralty
Bristow Causeway
Market jot: South Sea stock and annuities recaps
Readable listings show South Sea Stock at 105 s half, South Sea Annuities at 132 s half, New South Sea Annuities at 112 3 qrs, Bank 138, New Bank circulation 21 5s, India 1601 qr, Three per Cent Annuities no transfer, Million Bank 114, Royal Exchange Assurance 891 qr, London ditto nt African 10, English Copper 3 18s, India Bonds 4 148, sale tallies 13 yrs prem. Seven per Cent Emperor's Loan no price, Five per Cent ditto no price, Three half per Cent Exchequer Orders 2 per Cent prem, Three per Cent ditto 4 1 half per Cent discount, Lottery Tickets 71 7s co 15s.
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South Sea
Bank
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London
Historic Petition to Bridewell and Bethlem Governors
A fragmentary plea addressed to the Governors of Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals requests consideration from esteemed patrons. The text uses formal eighteenth century address and signals an appeal or petition seeking relief or favor from the institutions.
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Bridewell
Bethlem
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Allison
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London Gazette
Whitehall
John Cheale
Arundel
Norroy
Great Britain
England
Stephen Martin Leake
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John Philpot
John Cookson
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Swatlow-Street
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Covent-Garden
Goodman’s Fields
London Bridge
William Blanford
Bridewell Hospital
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