Rome Floods and Wars Echo Across Europe in December
Florence reports heavy rains causing floods near Rome with 10 000 peasants displaced and bread distributed by the Pope. Military moves around Bologna, Imola, Pianoro and Tuscany as regiments shift for winter. Hamburg rumors place three Prussian armies next spring, while Vienna notes Prince Charles of Lorraine returning from the front. Dresden and Prague describe French engagements at Strachnitz with Austrian pressure and frost threatening retreat. A Polish incident recounts a prisoner robbery by a jailer seeking escape after fees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
M. de. Gages
Bologne
Hungary
St. Peter
Imola
Pianoro
Tuscany
Tusciny
Firenzuela
Hambourg
Prussia
Brandenbourg
Pomerania
France
Vienna
Charles of
Cornelis Munster
Cornelis
Buchau
Tenegode
Carlsbade
Especia
Falckenau
Schiackenwerde
Lobkowitz
Prague
Death in Belfast Barracks and 18th Century Appointments
In Belfast on Saturday night Captain Kendrick Cope of Col Battereau’s Regiment died of pleurisy. His funeral was held with military honors at the church in County Armagh. Dublin Castle reports Letters Patent to pass the Great Seal granting Nathaniel Clements the offices of Customer, Collector and Receiver at Carrickfergus Port. James Bray was tried and found guilty of murdering his wife by hanging on the Oyer and Terminer commission in Dublin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Kendrick Cope
Battereau
Foot
Robert
Cope
Armagh
Dublin Castle
Kingdom
Nathaniel Clements
Carrickfergus
John Balaguer
Puifty
Cormission of Oyer and Terminer
Dover sails from Deal on port city voyage
Port News reports this forenoon His Majesty's Ship the Dover sails for Portsmouth. The Lynn and Greyhound Men of War remain in the Downs. Winds southwest. Gravesend notes arrivals and outbound ships: Henry M'Namara from Lisbon at Dover. Marcell Somers from Newfoundland at Dartmouth. Sea-Horse Burrell from London at Figura.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Majjesty
Dover
Portsmouth
Lynn
Greyhound
Downs
Gravesend
Mary
Ellis
Expedition
Maryland
Henry M‘namara
Lisbon
Dartmouth
Marcell
Somers
Newfoundland
Figura
Séa-Horse
Burrell
London
London News: Bank Official Capture and Diverse Obits
London reports reveal John Waite, former Bank of England cashier, captured in Dublin and sent to Newgate. Other items note marriages, deaths of Oliver Edwards and Cazalet, ship misfortunes near Holyhead, naval dispatches, and local petitions to remove garden huts. Also announced are a royal appointment in the Austrian Netherlands and a list of bankrupts including James Durham and John Estgate the Elder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Waite
Bank of England
Dublin
Newgate
John James
More-Court
Hereford
Miss Price
John Price
Knighton
Radnor
Bartholomew-Close
Oliver Edwards
Woolf-Pack
Islington
Bedford
Clapton
Hackney
Cazalet
Griggs
The
Crown
Guildhall
Kick’s End
Barnet
Tarrant
Young
London
Holyhead
Betty
Crawford
Virginia
Stow
Hartland
Bristol Channel
Mary le Cornu
Rachel
Grey
Jamaica
New England
Cuba
la ‘Vera Cruz
Bay
Cadiz
Covent- Garden
Duke’ of Bedford
Garden Square
Mary Morgan
Westminster Abbey
Bishop of
Rochester
Manley
James Durham
Chymitt
Netherton-Hall
Bewdley
Worcester
John Estgate the Elder
Chichester
Sussex
Feltbaker
Chap
London Theatre Schedule and Market Prices Report
A note lists performances at Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres with Henry IV second part and MITTRE. London prices show South Sea stock annuities and bank outstanding books, government loans and taxes, plus exchange rates. Stocks include South Sea Annuities 144 and Emperor's Loan 1103 qrs. per cent figures reflect mid afternoon values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theatre Royal
Drury Lane
Covent. Garden
Henry. IV
Yeffergay
South Sea
New South Sea
India
Royal Exelipag
Allurance
London
Indiz
Also Mentioned on This Page
Florence
Bray
Ireland
Port News
London Gazette
Whitehall
Abraham Hume
Austrian Netherlands
William Burroughs
Deceas
London Bridge
Cornhill
Delafield and Matthews
Royal Bed
Fleet-Street
A. Millar
Katherine-Street
Strand
Tuuanus
Buckley
George Hawkins
Milton’s.Head
Temple Gates
Europe
Great Britain
Champion
T. Cooper
Globe
Paternolter Rew
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