War prep and royal visit fill Venice as Europe eyes war
News from Vienna notes unresolved Turk war participation while the Senate keeps warlike preparations briskly in the arsenal. The Pretender's son visits with papal and French envoys, nobles seek diversions, and the Emperor contemplates new high military titles. Encounters with Bavarian electors and Saxon auxiliaries mark a busy, tense political scene ahead of potential conflict.
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Court of
Vienna
Republick
Senate
Dalmatia
Bavaria
Fort
Loretto
Duke of Lorrain
Hungary
Prince Charles
Bohemia
Austria
Luxembourg
Bosnia
Saxe-Hilbourghausen
Zwernick
Ratifoon
Wittenberg
Tha
Duke
Lorrain
Veldt
Ferdinand
Duke of
Anhalt-Deffau
Suabia
Fort-Khel
Philipsbourg
Duke of Wittenberg
Port News Arrivals From Calais Jamaica and Guernsey
Bristol ships report arrivals from Calais Jamaica and Guernsey dated June 17 and June 13 Southampton records two Guernsey bound vessels and a Malaga origin ship. The Union sails for Cork.
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Port News
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Arriv
Letchlade
Calais
Lark
Sinclair
Jamaica
Southampton
Fune
Fane
Pitton
Elizabeth
Mayner
Guernsey
St. George
Dormer
Malaga
Sail
Union
Bowen
Cork
Turks Attack Croatians and Mobilize Across Frontiers
Vienna reports Turk hostilities in Croatia with 200 Imperialists killed or captured. Czarist Russia plans action, with 84,000 troops and 35,000 Cossacks and Calmucks massed for campaigns on the Danube and Crimea. A dinner of diplomatic moves and impending treaties surfaces as M. d Argenton and Don Bernard de Marimon near Paris.
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Vienna
Croatia
Paffarowitz
Thomas Kouli Kan
Petersbourg
Munich
Bender
Lorc
Crim
Count de Traun
Hungary
Wachtendonck
Leghorn
Dummer Installed in Southampton Seat after John Conduit's Death
Extracts note Lee Dummer, Efq, occupies the Osths seat in the House of Commons for Southampton, succeeding John Conduit, deceased. The same day Lord Chief Justice Lee fell gravely ill in the King's Bench and left court for medical advice. A man who wounded a poor man near Highgate was captured and jailed in Coventry. A Charleston letter discusses fortifying Charles Town against a possible Spanish visit, including a 25 gun battery at White Point and preparations to escort or entertain the visitors. High water measured at London Bridge.
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Lee Dummer
House of Commons
Southampton
John
Deceas
Lee
King’s Bench
Coventry
Highgate
Lincolnshire
Charles-Town
South Carolina
Charles- Town
Patrick
White Point
Financial Market Quotes for South Sea and Related Securities
A compact list of price quotes including South Sea Stock at 1033 shorthands, South Sea Annuities around 151 3 8, New South Sea Annuities at 112 3 qrs, Bank at 147, Bank Circulation 31.55, Premium Indices 18 3 qrs, Annuities 106 7 8 to 107, Rovaxachange Assurance 12 1 qr, London ditto 147 8ths, African ss English Copper 2.12s, South Sea Bonds gl gs, Premium India ditto 7xs, Mine Adventure Shares 6], Emperor's Loan 117 half, Three and a half percent Exchequer Orders 81 half, Three per Cent ditta 37 &ths to 4 per Cent ditta.
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New South Sea Anniries
Bank
New Hank Circulaciog
Indis
Rovaxachange Assurance
London
South Sea Banus Gl
Gs. Prem
India
Ditto
Seven Additional Volumes of The Craftsman Published
The Day is published seven more volumes of The Craftsman in the same format, focusing on domestic topics and matters such as excises, standing armies, parliamentary dependency, party arguments, and a modern constitution, with humor pieces. A dedication to the People of England is prefixed, and a small royal-paper edition completes the set, printed for Robert Francklin in Roffel Street Covent Garden.
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England
N. B
R. Francklin
Roffel-ftreet
Covent-Garden
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