Paris News From France In January Reports Court Moves
Yesterday arrived the mail from France with dispatches from Paris dated January 28. The king and queen received the Prince de Lichtenstein in audience at Versailles and the envoy to Vienna is named. Embassies foreign ministers and a royal lottery plan are noted along with a quarantine in St Esprit and five new ships of the line at Toulon awaiting orders.
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Prince de ‘Lichtenstein
Versailles
Dauphin
Mesdames
France
Vienna
Count de Sades
Cologne
Duke de Noailles
Spain
Count de Noailles
Council of State
Toulon
St. Esprit
Curious Observation and Local Robberies Reported in Scotland
In Edinburgh and East Lothian notes, observers report a large spot on the sun. A birth tragedy is recorded for Mrs. Margaret Cunninghame, Lady of Craige. In Dingwall region, armed intruders in blackened faces beat a household, robbed rooms, and attacked a soldier. Two suspects, Donald Down and Duncan Grant, are in Taine jail awaiting trial with further similar attempts alleged elsewhere.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Salt-Peerton
East-Lothian
Margaret Cunninghame
Robert Keith of
Craige
William Cunninghame
Capringtoun
Bart
Earl of Crawford
Dingwal
Taine
Donald Down
Earl of Cromerty
Duncan Grant
Kenneth Baine
Tulloch
Munro
Killichoan
Prisoners Committed For Highway Robberies In Stilton Area
Reports from Huntingdom Fox dated 19 reveal Panter alias Do binson and others were committed to Gaol for highway robbery near Stilton amounting to over twenty pounds with Dobinson revealed as a woman dressed in men's clothes previously living at Thame. Royston and Hardy also committed. Gloucester Quarter Sessions ended with twenty five tried. six felons transported for seven years, eleven more convicted of Penny Loafing whipped, eight acquitted.
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Country News
Fox
Dobinson
Alias Panter
Nutt
Our Gap
John Panter
George Waters
William Gosling
Samuel Nutt
John Bletfoe
Stilton
Thame
Oxfordshire
William Royston
John Hardy
Port News from Cowes and Dover Reflect Busy Seaway
Reports detail arrivals and departures of multiple ships including the Basilick Clifton Tender Bromley and others bound for St Georges Channel Barbados Morlaix and Jamaica with arrivals from Newfoundland Rhode Island Virginia and Chester. The letter from Capt William Keddard notes convoy movements between Dover Port Mahon and Lisbon and a theatre scene in London with performances and high water timing.
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Cowes
Cork
Carton
St. Helen’s
Basilick
Peddie
Clifton
St. George’s Channel
Bromley
Robert
Sarah
Brenton
Newfoundland
Southampton
Endeavour
Migand
Neptune
Adams
Jersey
Dove
Southhampton
Sparkes
Bristol
Morlaix
Dover
Fan
Williams
Harrison
London
St. Ambrosia
Delema
Cather
Downs
Scarborough
Elizabeth
Alexander
Lake
New York
John
Cathill
Carolina
Snapper
Gray
Gooch
Dixon
Napier
Friendship
Ramey
Jamaica
Bishopstone
Ayres
Ansley
Allen
Lisbon
Weston
Knowler
Oporto
Mary
Jones
Manuel Hegnez
N.S. de Nazare_Esto Antonio
Domitz de Ante
Maranhao
William Keddard
Havin
Port-Mahon
Porte Mahon
Green
Torismond
Goodman’s-Fields
Theatre Royal
Drury-Lane
Covent - Garden
Oroonoxo
Royal Chace
Appointment of Lieutenant-Colonels and naval notices
London dispatch reports King’s appointment of Lieut. Cols to seven new regiments and four Marines, with named officers. Also notes five captains in the East India Company taking leave for Bengal and Bombay voyages. Bristol letters allege the murder of Dingley Goodyer aboard a royal ship. Obituaries, seizures, committals for robbery, imports and exports, and a Lisbon mail update conclude the item.
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London
Foot
Crosby
Col Fowke
Horseman
Long’s
Hacket
Haughton
Martin
Price
Gidikins
Mordaunt
Hopton
Cholmondéley
Macguire
de Grangue
Jackson
Nassau
Bengal
Bombay
Aucton
Lifle
Bristol
Dingley Goodyer
Hoxton
Anthony. Martin
East India Company
St. Helen’s
Excise
Tenter- Alley
Robert Roan
Eliz. Gibbs
Anne Cummins
Martin Wells
Guildford
Lisbon
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Paris
London Bridge
South Sea
New South Sea
Bank
India
Torhalf
Royal Exchange Assurance
Prem
Mine Adventures
Ditta
Exchequer
Difcoune
Vintners Hall
Humbury Parsons
John BaRnarple
Rupert Gooscuart
Grerce Hrathcore
George
John Barnard
Humphry Parsons
Robert Godschall
George Heathcote
Widow Evans
Hercules Pillars
Fleet-Street
Temple-Bar
Harper
Siz O’glock
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