Mail from Flanders reports imperial promotions and guard changes
News from Petersburgh and Stockholm recount promotions by the Empress on her birthday and a guard corps largely composed of foreigners, with a war council to be filled by both foreigners and natives. Reports from Genoa, Wadvid, and Copenhagen note troop movements, naval reinforcements, and soon to be announced measures as European powers shift alliances and expect Spring hostilities in Flanders.
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Mossow
Holstein
Council of War
Stockholm
Lewenhaupt
M. Lewenhaupt
Valois Apertis
Alledges
Friedericksham
Meady- Tub
Charg
Moscow
Duke of Holstein
London
Copenhagen
Russia
Denmark
Ratifoon
Fan
Prague
Franconia
Swabia
Flanders
Europe
Mann
Dresden
M. Belle-Isle
Mitterteuch
Tirchenreit
Naab
Fettttinz
Onhoft
Egra
Bavaria
Saxe
Bohemia
Marshal Kevenhuller
Port News: Atlantic Arrivals and Jamaica Trades Reported
The Morning lists ships fail'd and arriv'd from Jamaica, St Kitts, Dublin, Barbadoes, Virginia, Leghorn, Lisbon, and North Carolina. Vessels include Phanix, Granada Bomb, Priscilla, Chester, Rose, Minabilly, Love and Unity, Mary, Katherine, and more. Portmouth and Rotterdam arrivals noted along with sloops and fleets.
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Port News
Deal
Lyme
Lane
Jamaica
Priscilla
Dewar
St. Kitt’s
Angwin
Betty
Dublin
Chester
Burrows
Barbadoes
Minabilly
Blake
Love
Unity
Cant
Virginia
Mary
Hill
Leghorn
Katherine
Perry
Lisbon
Portmouth
Heningham Castle
Blois
Elizabeth
Auger
Long Ao
Ilfordcomb
Lucham
North Carolina
Rotterdam
Ellen
Ruth
Liverpool
Antigua
Otter
Spiread
Fernando
Lamont
Aftica
King appoints Earl of Pontefract captain of Yeomen Guard
London reports the King names the Earl of Pontefract Master of the Horde to the late Queen and captain of the Yeomen of the Guard in place of the late Earl of Essex. Admiral Vernon delays arrival until tomorrow night and will reside where Capt. Durell once lived. A distress signal from Worcester Man of War bound off Bermudas draws no aid due to storm. Rev Gilbert Burnet chosen minister of St James's Clerkenwell. A youth commits suicide by leaping from a Ship-Alehouse window. Eleanor Carr remanded to Newgate for diamond theft.
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London
Earl of
Worcester
Blakeney
Bermudas
Defiance
Gilbert Burnet
Coggeshall
Essex
St. James’s
Clerkenwell
Ley
Deceas
Holborn
Eleanor Carr
Newgate
Joseph Hankey
Theatre bills and London stock figures from a Westminster notice
The page records theatre performances at the Drury Lane and Covent Garden venues, listing The Stra TAGEM and The Siece of Damascus with Perseus and Andromeda, alongside stock quotations for the South Sea and related financial instruments. It closes with a civic notice of Westminster residents meeting at Rose Tavern to honor Admiral Vernon for his leadership and national benefits.
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Theatre Royal
Drury Lane
Covent Garden
Damascus
Perseus
Andromeda
Westminster
Rose Tavern
Temple-Bar
Admiral Vernon
Marine Coffee-House Birchin-Lane March Sale 1739 40
Auction notice listing various goods and prices at the Marine Coffee-House Birchin-Lane for the March sale. Items include tea, cocoa, coffee, tobacco, and textiles with quantities and pricing. Mentions East India Company recipe and a reward for delivery to a broker.
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Marine
Birchin-Lane
King’s Ware
Cottee
Harbour
J. PopHam
Ibchurch Lane
East-India Company
Parnesar
Perth
Devil Brokerhall
Sale by Candle at Marine Coffee-House Birchin-Lane
For sale by candle at the Marine Coffee House in Birchin Lane on Friday the 1ath at four o clock in the afternoon stock in trade of Mrs. Wacol including Bengal and Bellacine sewing threads, cloths, ribbons, velvets, cambricks, silk and wool textiles, paints, papers, and various haberdashery items totaling a wide assortment. The goods are to be sold by Robere Kirk at the upper hand of New Rene, St Martin's Le Grand, London, by sale tune.
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Lincoln’s Inn-Fields
Theatre - Royal
Lincoln’s-Inn- Fields
Richard
Ricu
Cibber
Henry the Sixth
Giffard
Duke of
Buckingham
Peterson
Farm
Richmond
W’. Gittare
Stanley
Moreen
Catesby
Mr. Dighton
Ratchit
Naylor
Norfolk
Freeman
Oxford
Pattenden
Lord Mayor
Dunstall
Bluur
Clough
Turel
Dove
Forel
Maria
Dutchess of
York
Bambridge
Edward the Fifth
Muss Cibber
Duke of York
Mas ‘Naylor
Queen Ehuatech
Butler
Lady Anne
Marine
Birchin-Lane
Wacol
Cyd Bengal
Bellacine
Belladine Tingle
Rags Spann Woolf
Kendall Cortes
Robere Kirk
Rene
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Yeerday
William Bridge
John Smyth
Anthony Wroth
William Hamilton
London Bridge
South Sea
New South Sea
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
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