Memorial of Prussia and Austria on Silesia Crisis
The Vienna court presents a memorial detailing King Frederick William II of Prussia proposals and the Austrian response. It notes Prussia’s demand for Silesia, alliance aims with Russia and maritime powers, and the Queen of Hungary’s firm rejection of ceding Silesia while seeking continued friendship under conditions of imperial law and troop withdrawal.
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Ratifoon
Vienna
Perussia
Hungary
Bohemia
de ‘Gotter
Baron de Brock
Saxony
Baron de “Brock
de Gotter
Prussia
House of Austria
Germany
Russia
Duke of Lorrain
Silesia
House of Ustria
Europe
Pagmatick
Port News From Dover and Nearby Ports
Dover port news reports the Sarah from Newcastle for New England failed to stop for lodg’d letters due to ebb tide and a gale, had to anchor but parted anchor and cable to drift. Indistry Johnson from Boston for Hamburgh and John Burn from Dublin for Ostend arrived at the prior, while Onslow Balchen departed for the West Indies and the Biddeford Man of War sailed from St Helens.
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Dover
Fan
Sarah
Smith
Newcastle
England
Léeward
Arriv
Tohnson
Boston
Hamburgh
John
Burn
Dublin
Heth
Onslow
Balchen
Indies
Portsmouth
St. Helen's
Biddeford
Lord
Prussian Movements and Court Appointments in London
Reports from Silesia place the Prussian king near Britstown with 400 recon men to Glatz thwarted by bad roads and ambushes. Regent rewards Veldt-Marshal Count Munich with 100,000 rubles and plate, while Moscow hints at exile for Biron brothers. Ralph Jennison named Governor of Barbadoes and Thomas Hobby master of the buckhounds. A Suffolk marriage, Jamaica victuallers bound for Portsmouth, East India tea price reports, and a lacero seizure appear among assorted items. A Scots shipping note notes cargo savings on a Swedish Indiaman castaway. The Lombard Street goldsmith Mr. Carr dies after heavy drinking. A voyage incident near Toulon ends with the Gothick Lyon Morren destroyed by privateers, with only papers saved.
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Munich
Moscow
Bismark
Charles
Gustavus de Biron
Courland
Ralph Jennison
Northumberland
Barbadoes
Robert Byng
Ely
Thomas Hobby
Great Marlow
Buckinghamshire
Thomas Fenn
Sudbury
Judith Ford
Abchurch Lane
Maynard
Gray
Jamaica
Portsmouth
West- Indies
East-India Company
Scotland
Orkneys
Lombardstreet
Carr
Allhallow’s
Lyon
Morren
Leghorn
Marseilles
Toulon
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France
Folland
Prusian
Gotter
Kircheysen
Lorrain
Count Gotter
Occa
Sion
Prusia
Forrester
Basilitk
Peddie
Treland
Princess Mary
Martin
Madrass
Bengal
Downs
Scarborough
Exon
Bowden
Toptham
Gravesend
Plymouth
Apteer
Samuel
Elizabeth
Duntcombe
Maryland
Vernon
Anderson
Jaaica
Betty
South Carolina
Pharour
Endezvour
Newton
Defiance
Williams
New Shoreham
Faulkingham
London
Thomas
Haydon
Yarmouths
Macnamar
Moauntsbay
Virginia
Panter
Underdown
Pristol
Wilson
Bristol Channel
Port News
Britsthenoth
N.S
Glatz
Petersbourg
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