Mornings from France Naples and Leghorn News
Letters from Naples Leghorn and Leghorn describe earthquakes and ruin in Leghorn with inhabitants fleeing and trade collapsed. Paris and Vienna dispatches discuss pacification attempts in the empire and Prussian advances near Brunn. Dublin reports the death of Sir Arthur Gore and local mood shifts to prefer domestic manufactures amid economic decline.
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Lombardy
Galiors
Leghorn
Jast
Moise
Isos
Vienna
Paris
Empire
Iron Moravia
Brinn
Bar
Prussia
Olmutz
Beérennan
Raditsch
Moravia
Ang Foourg
Count Kewenhulfer
Brainau
Landshut
Straubingen
Paffau
Gco
Francfort
Rodhad
Tolar
Catoli
Ulans
Rochau
Roth
Versailles
MC de' Buf
London
Robert Walpole
Dé Pleury
Abere
Cali'd
M. de Builj
Eea
Treland
Dublin
Latt Week
Arthur Gore
Appointed Seizures Inspector in Scotland
Scotland, Edinburgh February 16. A Commission appointed John Halibuston of Pitcur Esq as inspector of the seizures in Scotland, in the room of James Glen, Esq.. witness Orford.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
John Halibuston
Pitcur
James Glen
A Orford
PORT NEWS UPDATE FROM FEBRUARY 21
Deal on February 21 reports his Majesty's Ship Scipio failing and the outward-bound Carries bound for Jamaica. The Leopard remains, with Wid Gravesend listing a passage past the Foxhunter from Rotterdam and the Prince William Burford from North Carolina.
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Port News
Deal
Scipio
Carrie
Cropton
Jamaica
Leopard
Gravesend
Hains
Rotterdam
Prince
William
Burford
North Carolina
London News in 1742 Naval and Political Briefs
A London dispatch reports the Duke of Devonshire’s Irish visit and return to the House of Lords, naval preparations including the bomb-ketch and the Chatham’s repair, a projected 1742 land force near 40 000 plus 11 000 Marines, dispensations for church livings, officers facing election-related male practices, Capt Crass’s Southampton to Jersey expedition sightings of Spanish privateers, and cargo movements from Lisbon Jamaica Antigua and New York observed on the same day.
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London
Duke of Devonshire
Ireland
Piccadilly
House of Peers
Chatham
Woolwich Dock
West Indies
Edward Reyves
Earl of Lincoln
Hangleton
Hefield
Sussex
South Malling
Kent
Canterbury
ST Ass
Michael Lowther
Princess of Orange
Swillington
York
Westorn
Crass
Betty
Southampton
Jersey
Bourdeaux
Rotterdam
Bourdeaix
Lisbon
Jamaica
Antigua
New York
Shipwreck and Admiralty Orders Amid Poststorm Distress
An account from Robert Crosley master of the Dutie details a Virginia voyage turned perilous after a violent storm near Cape Clear. The crew fought flooding and hull damage, were aided by a royal ship's lieutenant, and lament Admiralty impressment rules, while noting volatile market and theatre notices and financial figures of the era.
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Hambourg
Wesk Indies
New England
Philadelphia
Ireland
Robert Crosley
Dutie
Waterford
Whitehaven
Virginia
Cape Clear
Useunich
Admiralty
Worgan
Theatre Royal
Drury-Lane
Covent- Garden
Goodman’s Fields
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France
Holland
Naples
Great Britain
Europe
Minifer
Sala Meche Méhemet-Pacha
Conitantinople
Turkit
Ottoman Empire
Hague
Republick
Holand
London Bridge
South’ Sea
South Sea
New South Sea
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
Publishe
City of
Charles IE Hichy
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