Feasts and balls in Paris honor Carnival at Servandoni home
Yesterday Chevalier Servandoni hosted a subscription feast for 60 nobles in Paris with a paired guest policy, elaborate halls, masked uniforms, garden enchanted scenes, airborne service tables and a grand concert. The night closed with a ball and a planned Opera-house event, ushering Lent. Paris and Leghorn dispatches note military and royal movements as well.
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Chevalier Servandoni
Monsieur Servandoni
Paris
Leghorn
Duke de Montemar
Madrid
Cadiz
Italy
Tuscany
Dutchy
Introduction to a Natural History of Tame Pigeons
An introductory notice offers a treatise titled to be had at J. Moore's shop, describing the columbarium and the pigeon house. The work presents accounts of tame pigeons and their care within a historical catalog.
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J. Moore
Columbarium
Advertisement for Alcohol at Keen's Wharf Strand
By WHOLESALE at the Apple-Brandy Warehouse on Keen's Wharf at the Foot of Essex-Stairs in the Strand Randy, famed as fine as any foreign, and increasingly used instead of it, sold at 3s 6d per gallon. Also Geneva, Hollanpi sort, made in London, distinct from English Geneva, sold at 2s 4d per gallon. All persons invited to ratte without buying.
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Keen's Wharf
Essex-Stairs
Strand
Geneva
London
Ratte
Port News Deal Feb 14 Ships at Dover Downs Westward Arrivals
The Dutch ship that was in Dover Road is now off the South Foreland and coming to the Downs. Many boats have gone to the Sand. Two ships arrived from the Westward. Names to be given next Port. Wind W by S.
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Deal
Dover Road
Downs
Letters from Ratisbon and European Movements
Reports from London and Berlin describe Cardinal Schonborn seeking 4450 florins for four tuns of wine. Prussia planning spring travel to Konigsberg and Brandenbourg towns. ambassadorial dispatches and Italian arms talks. Croatians halted near Mantua. Florence talks on army limits. noble lord Elibank dies in East Lothian. events with Sardinia and Savoy celebrations. Henry Drax’s wife gives birth to a son in Pall Mall.
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Ratisbon
N.S
Cardinal Schonborn
Spire
Diet
Philipsbourg
Count Wittgenau
Berlin
Prussia
Konigberg
Prutsia
Brandenbourg
Phannick
Marquess de la Chetardie
France
Konigsberg
Stanislaus
Venice
Alps
Mantuan
Vienna
Florence
Fiorenzuola
Count de Kevenhuller
Tuscany
Lombardy
Edinburgh
East Lothian
Alexander Lord Elibank
Belov
d’Offorio
Sardinia
Eleonora Mary Theresa
Princess Royal of
Savoy
Henry Drax
Wareham
Dorsetshire
Pall Mall
Court sessions and notices from Guildhall and London
Saturday last featured the three Chief Judges and counsel entertained at Mercers Hall by Sir John Bernard. A King's Bench trial at Guildhall found for the Defendant in a ship damage case tied to a May transport loss. Reports from Staffordshire note Lord Viscount Chetwynd gravely ill. A drowned widow of a General Post Office letter-carrier was found in the New River Head. Middlesex Justices order for funds to pallas vagrants declared illegal. Theatre notices list current plays. Bankruptcy notices compile names including Sopp, Worger, and Elliston.
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Guildhall
Mercers Hall
Cheapside
John Bernard
Court of King’s Bench
Lord Hardwicke
Root
Staffordshire
Viscount Chetwynd
Eglerton
Post-Ofice
Middlesex
High Water at London Bridge After 2 P.M. Alert
A flood warning notes high water at London Bridge reached 58 minutes after 2 in the afternoon. Officials advised caution for nearby riverside areas and urged residents to monitor updates and stock essentials.
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London Bridge
South Sea Stock and Annuities Prices and Bonds
Market update lists South Sea Stock at 941 half with bids for South Sea Annuities New South Sea Annuities and various bonds and currencies. It notes rates for Royal Exchange Assurance London Assurance York Buildings African English Copper Welch ditto South Sea Bonds and related premium figures including Three per Cent Annuities and Emperor's Loan quos.
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South Sea
South Sea Annuities Rina
New South Sea
India
Rys
Ditto
Mine Adventure
London Children to be admitted to Emanuel Hospital
Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London announce reception of twenty poor children for maintenance and education at Emanuel Hospital Westminster. Ten boys and ten girls from parishes of St Margaret Westminster Chelsea and Hayes in Middlesex may apply via the Town Clerk at Guildhall to learn terms and conditions of admission.
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London
City of London
Emanuel Hospital
Westminster
Lord
Lady Dacres
St. Margarets
Chelsea
Hayssin
Middlesex
St. Margaret
Westininster
Hayes
Guildhall
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England
Boyle
Elizabeth
William Miller
Bishopgate
John Moore
Laurence Poultney
Eviz
Miter
N.B
Jou Yn Vrooke
Hungerford-Market
Jobn Moore
Byfield
Port News
Theatre Royal
Covent Garden
Constant Cooper
Royal
Chace
Goodman's Fields
Jan ® Shore
Robert Sopp
Christopher Worger
Ashford
County of
Kent
John Elliston
Smithsfield
Haberdasher
Lidy
Stoke Newington
Mill Howe
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