Port and European affairs reveal looming peace and troop movements
Reports from Naples Leghorn and Venice describe ships provisioning for Spanish troops, preparations for a grand Carousal, and ongoing disputes over Fort Goro and Ferrara. Spain and the Ottoman sphere clash over captured goods and slaves, while commissioners assess King Stanislaus's debts and the Bergue Juliers succession remains settled in favor of Sultzbach with a Bavaria alliance.
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Leghorn
Tuscany
Baron de Neuhof
Spain
Venice
Republick
Court of
Rome
Goro
Ferrara
Senate
Malceze
Porte
Constantinople
Malta
Drefdeh
Fan
Prince Lipsky
Cracow
Count Rapsky
Culm
Stanislaus
Francfort
Fante
Assur
Baron de Roth
Wirtemberg
Marshal du Bourg
Strasbourg
Philipsbourg
Khel
Trirs
Augustus
Europe
Juliers
Bergue
Duke de Montemar
Genoa
Cologne
Ators
House of Sultzbach
Sultzbach
Ferdinand
Bavaria
Port News Falmouth and Liverpool Arrivals and Debarks
Port notices record arrivals and departures with ships such as Phenix Pye from Cadiz Betty and Anne Tin Vessel Rice from London Endeavour Bourke from Havre and later Hamilton Ireland from Virginia John Ellman from Cork Three Brothers Oliver to Sacenteyt Hope Butler to Jersey John and Jane Mullens with Corn to Lisbon ships Stay Providence Richardson for Holland Elizabeth Legard for Lisbon Neptune Peppercorn Molineux Tucker for Oporto St David Jones for Cadiz Eltham Barker from Carolina and wind shifts noted.
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Falmouth
Phenix
Pye
Cadiz
Betty
Anne
Rice
London
Endeavour
Bourke
Havre
King George ‘Pacquet
Lisbon
Townsend Pacquet
Corunna
Wind N. W
Liverpool
Hamilton
Ireland
Virginia
Southampton
Fan
Francis and Mary
John Ellman
Cork
St. Valerie
Oliver
Peppercorn
Molineux
Tucker
Oporto
Jones
Eltham
Barker
Carolina
London Chronicle: European diplomacy and local OCR notes
Letters from Bayonne report the Queen Dowager of Spain receiving 50000 pistoles from Charles II’s estate amid arrears of jointure. Parcels of intelligence discuss French Cantons mediating a Huninguen dispute, plans for promotion of officers, and divers from Vienna to Ostend. Local obits, shipwrecks, fires, assaults, and theatre listings fill the page with a mix of court, commerce, and daily life notes.
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Bayonne
Spain
Charles II
France
Zurich
Cardinal de Fleury
Baftt
Huninguen
Little
Genoa
Senate
Vienna
Duke of
Eugene
Croatia
Prince de Hildbourghausen
Languedoc
Paris
Europe
Rufsia
Porte
Ostend
London Bridge Weather and Market Interest Notes
High Water at London Bridge reported fifteen minutes after six in the afternoon yesterday. Market quotes show South Sea Annuities and related securities at varying prices, with Royal Exchequer and other government instruments listed. Several items including Bank circulation and copper prices noted, reflecting a turbulent financial scene and shifting bond values.
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London Bridge
South “Sea
South Sea
Mine Adventure
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