News from Europe and Asia in Late May 1700s Reports
The periodical notes British readers on ongoing PersianTurkish clashes with Shah Nadir at the Grand Signor's frontiers while European powers maneuver in Italy and Bavaria. Reports cite Pontius de Leon’s militia, Italian troop movements toward Bologna, Austrian and French postures near Linz and Ingolstadt, and imperial mediation efforts. A Dutch ship brings word of Batavia peace and Malabar stability as Governor General Imhoff plans further naval actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Persia
Shah Nadir
Fogedoe i
Madrid
Don Manuel Pontius de Leon
Savoy
Don Philip
Pontius de Leon
Barcelona
Rimini
Viterbo
Mesaro
Foligno
Bologna
Hussars
Perficetto
Crevalcore
St. Agathe
Bologneze
Stadt-am-hoff
Fune
Lobkowitz
Weix
Amberg
Ingolstadt
Bavaria
Prince Charles of Lorrain
Martha Broglio
Landthut
Upper Rhine
Mentz
Fuaery
Noailles
Main
Rhine
Weinheim
Berg-Strasse
Munich
Hungary
Dresden
Dipatches
House of Saxony
Vienna
Se Bown
Count Debenzel
Ixas
Cologne
House of Austria
Cage of Good Hope
Baron William
Imhoff
Dutch Fast-India Company
Dregterland
Arriv
Batavia
Java
Malabar
Pigott Marries Miss Brownlow at Abybyleix House
In Ireland on May 31 John Pigott Esquire eldest son of Capard Queen's County married Miss Brownlow at the house of Sir John Denny Vesey Abybyleix. The couple are described as well accomplished and possess a considerable fortune. Alexander Nesbit Esquire solicitor to the Revenue Commissioners died yesterday. Also yesterday the Right Hon Lady Charlemont mother to the lord Charlemont, died at her Jervis Street residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
John Pigott
Efy
Southwell Pigott
Capard
Queen’s County
Miss Brownlow
John Denny Vesey
Abbyleix
Ford County
Bart
Alexander Nesbit
His Majesty’s Revenue
Jervis Street
Charlemont
Lord Charlemont
Matthew Adderley
PORT NEWS ARRIVALS AND SAILINGS IN THE DOWNS
In Gravesend on June 4 and 5 ships passed by including the Augusta in the Downs and the Margaret from Hambourg and the Anne and Elizabeth from Dantzick. Also the Industry from Norway and the Pellear from Stetin, with arrivals at Hambourg Smyrna Antigua and the Happy Return in the Sound from Petersbourg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Fune
Augusta
Downs
N. Gravesend
Margaret
Myers
Hambourg
Anne
Elizabeth
Blank
Dantzick
Gravesend
Jackson
Norway
Pellear
Lidkin
Stetin
Molly
Gauthorn
Plymouth
Smyrna
Richards
London
Caster
Happy Return
Smithes
Petersbourg
London Navy contract for 4000 quarters of wheat
London reporters note that the Navy Commissioners contracted for four thousand quarters of wheat to be delivered within a month. Letters from Lichfield report weddings of James Corbett and Molly Hewitt at a cathedral, a Newport Shropshire heir, and fortune details for multiple brides. Further notices include marriages of Knight to Sally Jackson and a Dock-head cheesemonger’s wedding. Deaths include John Bradshaw, Mayne, and Felix Cornwallis. Edinburgh notes a Highlander committed to the Canon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Litchfield
James Corbett
Newport
Shropshire
Molly Hewitt
Knight
Whitechapel
St. Mary le Bow
Stratford
Sally Jackson
Dock-Head
Southwark
Deptford
Seacat
Fall-Mall
Felix Cornwallis
Somerset
Edinburgh
Deserter Suspicions and Bank Jail Movements in London
A desolate report lists gate Gaol suspicions of a deserter from Lord Seaple's regiment. The Bank of England removed Mr Waite, their late cashier, from the Fleet Prison to the King's Bench by habeas corpus to pursue a 13001 declaration. Accounts of robberies, naval engagements near the Isle of Wight, and volatile South Sea stock movements fill the page along with notices about coal provisioning for London’s poor and civic governance actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newgate
Sarah Capell
Newte
Elizabeth Kelly
Neptune
Sutton
Vince
London
Wight
Dover
Geary
Also Mentioned on This Page
Yeterday
Holland
Ireland
Port News
Antigua
Ruby
Nicholson
London Bridge
South Sea
New South Sea
India
Royal Exchange Assurance & London Dicto Rr
Dicto
Duc
Guldhall
City of
William Stimson
Foon Kirt
St. Bride’s
Loffis
Fc. N. B
Lewer-Hill
Kent
Haberdather’s
Bagwell
John Hunt
Cornhill
Henry Montague
High Court of Chancery
Lincoln's Inn
Nathaniel- Eaden
Thomas Shaw
Snpston Upon Stower
Warwick
William Prestidge
Walter Vans Clerk
Deceas
Linvoly
Lun
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