Military movements and raids rumors from Vienna to Temeswar
Reports from Vienna and Belgrade detail Imperial Army buildup and possible Danube crossing toward Temeswar with four Bavarian battalions aboard warships. Turkish forces under Promises and threats probe Rascian peasants near Jagodina while Cherished marches near Choczim unfold. Robberies in Cofterey and St Andrews parish tightened city watch.
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Danube
Neuperg
Bannat
Temeswar
Ortova
Crozka
Jagodina
Vienna
Count Wallis
Servia
Marsaw
Gentzl-Ali-Bafban
Serebeya
Soroka
Chocaim
Munich
Choczim
Gentzi-Ali-Bashaw
Privateer Fundraising Amid Broad Public Spirit
Bristol reports a widespread public drive to subscribe funds for arming a twenty gun privateer to retaliate against Spaniards as ships for privateering are currently abroad. In Norfolk, two youths broke into Mr. Cockle’s Wicklewood house, bound him and servants, stole money and goods, and were captured near New Market with horses and pistols, one said to be an attorney’s son. another a farmer’s apprentice.
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Bristol
Bath
Norwich
New-Market
Bury
Port News Briefs From Gravesend Waters
Deal July 22 His Majesty's Ship still remain Came down and sail'd the St Philip Stevens and the Two Brothers Thomson both for the West Indies Wind NE Gravesend July 21 Pass'd by the Hannah and Zeporah Cranwell from Rotterdam and the King of Portugal Hughes from Lisbon
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Deal
St. Philip
Stevens
Thomson
West Indies
London News Roundup From Stockholm and Vienna
Reports from Stockholm confirm a French squadron arrival to a harbor under Marquess d Antin with reinforcement plans and possible wintering. Vienna letters describe a violent hurricane at Belgrade and Mirova, with casualties and camp damage. Seckendorff seeks Lutheran priest. Paris letters discuss British and Spanish responses and French assurances to trade and treaties. Locally, light details include a cricket match disruption, religious dissent, accidents, road work on Shooters Hill, and imports and exports as well as stock market notes.
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Stockholm
d’Antin
Vienna
Belgrade
Mirova
Danube
Count Seckendorff
Gratz
Paris
Earl of Waldegrave
Great Britain
Madrid
Toulon
Cadiz
Cape St. Francis
St. Domingue
Mississippi
Quebec
Canada
West Indies
Lisle
Flandérs
Notice on Comet and Solar Eclipse Lecture at Whitehall
Mr Whitton gives notice that a recent bright comet and a forthcoming solar eclipse will be shown from a room over the Horse Guards by Whitehall this day between three thirty and five thirty. He will calculate the eclipse with Copernicus five, discuss eclipses, and conduct a lecture with admission one shilling. A small eclipse will be visible again in London only until July 14, 1748.
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Mr. Whitton
Whitehall
London
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Holland
George Gernegan
Cofterey
William Jenkyns
Tobias Jenkyns
City of
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John Shark
Regiment of Foot
Duke of
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Prince
Beninden
Kent
John. Norris
Alexander Powel
Salisbury
Miss Gatehouse
Sabine’s. Welch
Westley
Fleet Prison
George Pace
Ralph Thirale
Elyin Southwark
Harrow
Harrow. Comer
St. Thomas’s Hospital
London Bridge
Richard
Charter
Cannon
Deptford
Shooters Hill
Kentith Road
Dunkirk
Dantzick
Carolina
Jamaica
New England
Bank
Prem
India
Million Bank
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Ditta
Ditta
Itto
Mine Adventure
Emperor’s. Loan
Dicta
Lucan
J. Brotherton
Bible
Cornhill
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