Four Dutch ships seized and a 70 gun ship sinks near Havana
Madrid reports: Spanish vessels guard coasts and seize four Dutch frigates and five shalops plus one English shalop, cargo valued at 300,000 pieces of eight. A 70 gun man of war sank near Vera Cruz with thirty crew drowned. Lima letters claim twenty million pieces of eight ready for Lima’s fair at Tortola. Florence notes Corsican rebel leader Falco executed in Bastia. mobs vow revenge. Naples reports three distinguished couriers arrested for private correspondence. Brunswick dispatches celebrate visits to Saltzdahlen with grand entertainment and fireworks.
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Cadia
Carthagena
Havanna
Vera Cruz
Lima
Torto Bolo
Florence
Genoa
Falco
Corsica
Bastia
Naples
Harries
Calabra
Man Redonia
Adriatick
Lord Chancellor visits London with peace commission honor
In London on Wednesday night the Lord Chancellor visited town and yesterday presided at Causes by Consent at his residence in Lincoln's Inn Fields. John Manby was introduced to the King and Queen by Lord Deloraine and the Earl of Grantham and kissed their Majesties Hands for serving as Justice of the Peace across several counties.
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Pope
Chevalier de Sainctot
Paris
Versailles
Mufick
Maria Tera
Austria
Louis XIV
Signor Maffei
Athens
Chevalier de Saiictot
Trianon
St. Hubert
Compiegne
Duke of
London
Lincoln ’S Inn Fields
John Manby
Lord Deloraine
Earl of
Earl of Berkeley Visits New House in Spring Gardens
A report from London details the Earl of Berkeley visiting his new house in Spring Garden at Charing Cross and staying the night. It lists recent executions, highwaymen captured near Windsor and Reading, and a dwarf named Lord Tunridge charged with assaulting a girl. Also noted are stock prices, East India Company notices, and local rewards for fugitives.
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Earl of Berkeley
Charing-Cross
John Phillips
Liscoln
Grismond Phillips
Cwmgwylie
Carmanen
Whorpe
London Bridge
Jeren
H Surman
Soho Square
Witten
New Brentford
Mailstone
Tunridge
Lewes
Sussex
Richard Eldridge
Nifi Prius
Friton
Windsor
Reading
Morris
Johnson
Shelbrook
Newgate
William Billers
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France
Madrid
Bevern
Abels
Quedlisburg
Anhalt Dornburg
Holstein
Saxon Eisenach
Saltzdahlen
Tabie
Emelinda
Corfini
Evlarz
Henry V
Oratory
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields
Clare-market
Jackman
Spain
Rudpeck
Newmarket
Bam
Gimcrack
Swallow
Tomett
The
Times
Moore
Pancras
Sicily
Stall
South Carolina
Minster
Dominique
South Sea
South Sea Annuity
East-India House
United Company of Merchants of England
East Indies
Leadenhall-street
William Lowfeild
Child
St. Paul's
Bunhill Row
Iizze
Peter
John Henderson
Christopher’s
Tiaac Pirou
Mason’s Court
Brick-Lane
Whitecharel
Chaires
Iaac Pirou
J. N
Jha Nicholl
Richmonnd
Joan Mascatt
Bow Church Yard
John Scrimihise
Atocracy
Boweane
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