Empress Catherine's Rescript on Botta Affair Sparked Vienna Clash
Nov 29 in St Petersburg reports the Empress of Russia dispatching a circular Rescript to Minister Lanzinsky at Vienna concerning the Marquess of Botta affair. It denounces Vienna's handling, promises further proof, and orders publication to refute Vienna's conduct while reaffirming imperial favor. The notice also lists local London items and stock prices from the previous day.
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Sherbatov
Great Britain
Marquess of Botta
Hungary
Marquess
Lanzinsky
Vienna
St. Petersburg
Count Alexis Bestuchef
Port News Update: Vessels Arrive and Depart
Deal December 28 reports remain the Furnace and Ursula tender. The Providence from Stockholm Burn, the Friendship from Gottenbourg, and the Industry from Dunkirk arrive. Portsmouth December 28 lists the Dorrington for East India and the Northumberland Man of War from the Downs at Spithead.
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Port News
Deal
N.E. Groefend
Providence
Burn
Stockholm
Friendship
Ouchterlony
Gottenbourg
Industry
Smith
Dunkirk
Portsmouth
Spithead
Dorrington
Crabb
East India
Downs
Married in Winchester as Swan weds Bowles of the Place
London report notes the Windsor wedding of Mr Swan, a Deptford coal merchant, to Miss Fanny Bowles, heiress with fortune of 8900 J. The same day the corpse of Sir John Jennings, knight, was moved from Green-Weich Hospital to be interred at Westminster Abbey. Also reported is the death of Mr Clayton, longtime landlord of the Boar's Head in Fleet Street, who had recently retired after securing a handsome fortune.
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Lambeth
Lord
Christ College, Cambridge
Makin
Wellington
Salop
Ely
Tafley
Alsop
Queenshithe Ward
Ayliffe
Commissioners of the Excise
Powell
London Astillery
Revenue
Nurse
Stephens
Hamilton
Snow Fields
Southwark
Excise Office
Newington
Middlesex
Meff. Anderson
Scot
Excise
King’s Warehouse
Sittinghourn
Kent
Sir John Hale, Bart
Shippey
Emly
London
St. Anne’s
Winchester
Swan
Deptford
Fanny Bowles
Fame Place
Sirohn Jennings
Green- Weich Hospital
Jerusalem Chamber
Westminster Abbey
Fleet-street
Clayton
Boar’s Head
Notices on Stackhouse Bible History subscription and completion
In this issue a public notice from THOMAS STACKHOUSE's History of the Holy Bible urges subscribers, booksellers, and printers across Great Britain and Ireland to finalize outstanding numbers. It announces that incomplete weekly sets can be completed by purchasing remaining issues at six pence each and informs buyers to send accounts. The February completion date at Farchelt offers full sets in two bound folio volumes.
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Thomas Stackhouse
Beenham
Berks
Great Briain
Ireland
Stackhouse
Austen. N
Farchelt
Harleian Miscellany Proposals for Subscriptions
This notice announces printing six sheets of the Harleian Miscellany with notes, proposes weekly issues each Saturday, no delivery charge, and asks subscribers to enroll through booksellers and Jacob Rosisson on Lurgate Hill. The first number is to be published on March 24 and subsequent numbers will follow each Saturday morning.
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Earl of Oxford
Loch
Jacob Rosisson
Lurgate-Hill
T. Miborne
Gray’s Inn
Bibliotheca Harleiana Catalogue Sale at Osbourne's Gray's Inn
On Wednesday next a sale begins at T Osbourne's in Gray's Inn for the Harleiana Catalogue of the Oxford library. Books number near forty thousand, with notes on history and editions. Catalogue price five shillings per volume. exchange permitted within three months after February 14. First and second volumes offered at ten shillings.
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T. Osborne
Gray’s Inn
Harleiana
Earl of Oxfords
T. Osborne’s
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Fratbay
St. Petersbourg
Elizaberh
All
Russia
and Charles Brevern
London Bridge
South Sea
New South Sea
Bank Raz
India
Millon Bank
Royal Exchange Assurance
Lowion Cinorm
Prem
James
de Lont Cliet
Court of Exchequer
J. Asd P. Knapton
T. Longman
C. Hitch
C. Davis
A. Madiar
Bernard Picart
Europe
H News World
Holbourn
Hirch
Pacer-nofter
Rowan A. Millar
Katherine Screer
Strand
England
Degwell-Cumrt
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