Earthquake Ravages Italian Town Amid Broad War Reports
From Holland to Rome evacuees recount a strong earthquake leaving many houses uninhabitable and churches damaged as inhabitants seek safety aboard ships in the harbor. Paris to Vienna dispatches detail Italian and German troop movements, frontier skirmishes, and strategic holds across Lombardy Bohemia and Bavaria with hospital losses and shifting command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carce
Rome
Italy
Trieste
Lombardy
Milan
Turin
Paris
Duke de Chartres
Bohemia
Germany
Hungary
Austria
Cologne
Palatine
Bavaria
Barcelona
Prague
Old Town
P.S
Budweis
Se Ratiston
Palfi
Huffas
Count Kevenhuller
Inn
Braunau
Colint. Phelare
Wer
Danube
Iser
Straubingen
Landshut
Bruffls
Francfort
Lilness
Vienna
Philip Lewis
Holy Roman Empire
Simzendorf
Ernstbrun
Gefell
Order of the Golden Fleece
PORT NEWS REMARKS OF SHIP ARRIVALS AND Departures
The report lists ships remaining in the Downs the Leopard and Scipio. arrivals since last port include the Sea-flower Priddie for Smyrna and the Sally Cole for Newfoundland. Several ships sailed for London and the Isle of Wight, with others passing Gravesend and arriving at Cowes Bristol Hambourg with multiple vessels from Jamaica Virginia and London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Downs
Leopard
Scipio
Sea-flower
Priddie
Smyrna
Sally
Cole
Newfoundland
Wind S
E. Dover
Isft
Industry
Andrews
Joseph and
Abraham
Dells
London
Nancy
Ayers
Rotterdam
Isle of Wight
John and
Elizabeth
Finch
Shoreham
William and Margate
Baker
Sunderland
Gravesend
Prince of Orange
Harris
Jamaica
Cowes
Robert
Williamson
Prince William
Burford
South Carolina
Bristol
Merlin
Hurrice
Hanover
Rumney
Virginia
Hambourg
The academy at Woolwich Warren remains unfinished
The Academy for instructing young Engineers in gunnery fortification and mathematics at Woolwich Warren is finished but no matters appointed yet. Fear grows this useful design is laid aside. Miscarriage in the West Indies partly due to lack of engineers. Essex committed to Newgate for breaking Mr Long’s desk and stealing over 71. Pellantine jailed for felonies in Middlesex including sheep theft. Matthews jailed for stealing weather sheep. Nostra Signora del Paz Lemos seized by a Spanish privateer and taken to St Sebastian's. Imports and exports listed for Lifton Dunkirk and India. various goods and ounces of silver, iron, and cordage. Court at St James's notes two promotions to Privy Council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolwich Warren
West Indies
Joseph Essex
Newgate
Alderman Hankey
Thomas Long
Daniel Pellantine
Justice Clitherow
Middlesex
Combes
Hampton
Twickenham
William Matthews
Southwark
Nicholas
Hambourg
Carolina
Philadelphia
London Theatre Listings and Market Prices Patched Notice
Whitehall announces appointments for the Exchequer Commissioners in the king's name. Theatre notices for Drury Lane Covent Garden and Goodman's Fields list upcoming performances. Stock prices, bonds, and bank rates tick in London markets. Notices seek electors and charity meeting. Sale of mercery stock at the Bear Tavern with a view of goods at Three Black Lions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitehall
Spencer, Earl of Wilmington
Garter
Samuel Sandys
George Compton
John Rushout
Philips Gibbon
Theatre
Miser
Orpheus and
Eurydice
Goodman’s Fields
London Bridge
St. Mary le Bow
Cheapside
Stebbing
Salibury
N. B
Bear Tavern
Strand
John Kirke
Also Mentioned on This Page
Holland
Léghorn
Utrecht
Saxe Hildbourghausen
Munich
Ingolstadt
Baron Pfitzner
Prufsia
Spielberg
Jabluncka
Lower Silesia
d’Uhlefeldt
Count Sintzendorff
Arriv’d
Charg
London Gazette
St. James’s
John Marquess of Tweedale
Privy Council
Great Britain
Exchequer
South Sea
New South Sea
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
City and Liberty of
Westminster
Marine
Birchin-Lane
Spurling
Garraway
Exchange Alley
Cornhill
John’s
Jonathan Por Ham
Abchurch Lane
St. Alban’ S Street
Pall-Mall
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