War Council Deliberates Plans for Operations and Succession
The Daily Post details a Paris and Stockholm scene of secret deliberations. A grand Council of War discussed operations to execute if the Congress at ADO dissolves, while Danish offers influence the Swedish succession debate. Deputies and nobles clash over the succession, with Prussia and Hungary mobilizing for campaigns and forces converging on Bavaria, the Palatinate, and the Lake Geneva region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esterday
Ado
Eka
Denmark
Sweden
Bertuchert Rumin
M. Coutourh
Ca‘mar
Rutha
Futin
Dutchy of
Schwick
Stockholm
Baron Coyet
Nobuile
College of Nobles
Carper
Senate
Party For the Union of Calmas
Stength
Warsaw
Marek
Turku
Moldavia
Walachia
Port News Arrivals at Dover and Other Ports
Dover reports arrivals from Sunderland Lymington and Carmarthen to Yarmouth and London. The John and Barbara, Elizabeth, Prosperity, and Thomas and Mary bring crews and cargo from various ports. The Susannah reaches London from the Carolinas. Deal notes the Terror Bomb remains. Phenix arrives from Carolina. Neptune and Mary and Warren depart from London to Philadelphia and back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dover
John and
Barbaray
Elizabeth
Rymer
Sunderland
Hope
Providence
Hutchenton
Lymington
Yarmouth
Waller
Mulford
Thomas and Mary
Noye
Carmarthen
London
Susannah
Gregory
Carolina
Deal
Cowes
Phenix
Wilson
Neptune
White
Philadelphia
Mary
Stevenson
Warren
Jennings
London Finance and titles ruling in Parliament
In London, reports indicate a bill is ordered into Parliament by royal directions to restore the titles of Earl of Doncaster and Baron Scot of Tindal to the Duke of Buccleugh. The Sterling Castle victualling at Spithead will soon join the fleet in the Mediterranean. Notable deaths include Mr Hemmings near the Half Moon Tavern and Mr Pardon of Surrey. Market quotes show South Sea Stock, Bank business, and various government securities with shifting prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl of
Doncaster
Scot
Tindal
Duke of Buccleugh
Spithead
Mediterranean
Hemmings
Smuggling raids, innkeeper betrayal, and dockyard sentences
Reports from Clapham Common describe smugglers with pistols evading excise officers as a horde of tea smuggling ships approaches. An innkeeper’s wife affair ends in a 400 payment for damages. York and Dublin linked punishments frame a turbulent march of crime, transport, and executions. A boat collision near Wandsworth leaves three women drowned. theatre notices conclude with King Lear and Henry the Fourth performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Excise and Customs
Clapham Common
Gray’s-Inn-lane
Mary Hughes
John Nicholas
Southwark
James Hopkins
John Graves
York
Guildhall
John Aiton
Iaac Carrow
Ralph Whalley
Isabel Hunter
Dublin
Leghorn
Malaga
Wandsworth
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S. Austen
C. Paul’s Church
Nxard
Newgate Street
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Petersbourg
SaruRpay
Geneva
Marquess de la Mina
Valaize
Rat
Count Seckendorff
Duffeldorp
Earl of Stair
Rhine
wBinffels
Luxembourg
Moselle
Nanci
Segur
Haildron
Hipne
Baron Reiscach
Bavoy
Vienna
Port News
London Bridge
South Sea
New South Sea
Bank
Indiana
Royal Exchange Assurance
India
Bauw
Ico
Theatre Royal
Drury- Lane
King Lear
Covent Garden
Henry the Fourth
Perseus
Andromeda
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