Mail from Holland and Frontiers News
Yesterday arrived the mail from Holland and Flanders. Moscow reports Troops marching toward a frontier body. Lieven to be promoted. Naples notes the Dursey Galley returning with complaints about neutrality and a potential royal response. Genoa and Milan columns update on battles near Aiguebelle and Montmelian with captured prisoners and wounded. Political shifts in Munich and Schwanendorff reports ahead of March troop movements toward Luxembourg.
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Persia
Thomas Kow
Kiflar
Lieven
Naples
Duke de Montalegre
Matthews
Hence
Lomfigrdy
Admiral Matthews
Geneva
Ben Philip
Sardinia
Savoy
Miajesty
Montmelian
Marquess de la Mina
Aiguebelle
St. Andrew’s
Lannebourg
Mount Denis
Don Philip
P. S
M. de Garcia
Milan
Cardinal Stampa
Modena
Upper Palatinate
Schwanendorff
Buerm
Egra
Thas
Parliament Seats in Scotland Elects Gordon and Maxwell
In Edinburgh Fan dated 6, it is reported that Sir John Gordon Bart is unanimously elected to Parliament for the Shire of Cromarty in the vacancy left by his late father Sir Willian Gordon Bart. Captain John Maxwell of Caridonefs is chosen for the Stewartry of Kircudbright in place of the late Hon Basil Hamilton Etq.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Edinburgh
John Gordon
Bart
Shire of Cromarty
Willian Gordon
Deceas
Capt
John Maxwell
Caridonefs
Kircudbright
Basil Hamilton
Port News: London bound ships and fleets in harbor news
Multiple ships arrive and depart from Dartmouth Portsmouth and Gravesend with convoys to Lisbon Cork and Havre. Vessels include the America the Benjamin the Wilmington and the Jenny, with new arrivals from Cork London and Maryland. Trade routes to Oporto Lisbon and Leghorn noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port News
Dartmouth
America
London
Prideaux
Arundel
Victor Amadeus
Coignet
Havre
Hispaniola
Southampton
Benjamin
Reed
Cork
Wilmington
Fry
Dove
Sparks
John
Thorne
Mourant
Guernsey
Jenny
Marten
Hopewell
Read
Judith
Smith
Cranbury
Guillam
Spithead
Oporto
Viana
Lisbon
Cowes
Fan
Duke of Lorrain
Newton
Falmouth
Streights
Cleve
Rice
Morecraft
Barty
Bleft
Fowler
Liverpool
Draper
Leach
Betty
Whaley
Dublin
Dagerrat
Cloke
Amsterdam
Leghorn
St. Maurice
Power
Dunkirk
James
Major
Atalanta
Leigh
Montferat
Vryhederland
Cornelifen
Rotterdam
Portmouth
Lyme
Downs
Braganza
Lyon
Boulter
Weales
Lambert
Hayman
Prince William
Minuet
St. George
Hart
Dargent
Knowler
Marmaduke
Bowman
Deal
Princess Royal
Wind
Westminster residents praise Admiral Vernon at Rose Tavern
At a 2 General Meeting of the Independent Inhabitants of Westminster held at the Rose Tavern Temple Bar they unanimously congratulated Admiral Vernon on his safe arrival and expressed gratitude for his services to the nation. Yesterday morning the Lady of the Right Rev Benjamin Oadley Bishop of Winchester died at his lordship's Grosvenor Street house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Westminster
Rose Tavern
Temple-Bar
Admiral Vernon
Benjamin Oadley
Winchester
Grosvenor Street
Morning Chronicle Briefs From London and Abroad
The Morning Chronicle reports a Royal Messenger dying, a Petticoat Lane robbery, and a Newgate commitment for street theft. An Eleanor Bremer is named in a separate ledger, and a Berkshire letter mentions French fishing vessels. A Littlewick Green tragedy follows a mad dog bite leading to fatal injuries. Theatre notices warn of Hamlet and Macbeth at Drury Lane and Covent Garden.
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Piterday
James Jordan
Berkshire
Littlewick Green
Maidenhead
Shanks
Southampton
Theatre Royal
Drury Lane
Hamner
Covent Garden
Daamascus S
South Sea Company Dividend Notice 1742
London December 27 1742 at South Sea House London the Court of Directors announce a General Court at Threadneedle Street on January 27 at eleven o clock for declaring the dividend on trading capital stock for the half year ending Christmas 1742 and for a special matter concerning Robert Knight former cashier of the company.
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South-Sea-House
London
South-Sea Company
Rid
Threadneedle-Street
Faid Court of Directors
Robert Knight, Esq
Caslive
Faid Company
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Holland
Flanders
Moscow
Nagy Oxiecaric
Lise
Prussia
Eletor
Bavaria
Ees Manheim
d’Itres
Baron Watchtendonck
Francfort
Baron Sickingen
Braffels
Luxembourg
Mr. Cavendish
House of Smons
Warner
London Bridge
South Sea
New South Sea
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
Tedia
Prem
Cortney Draper
Laurent
Maria
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