Mails from France Naples reports on arms and reforms
Yesterday arrivals from France and Flanders describe military dispositions in Naples and Rome. A plan to demolish Gaeta suburb for use as a weapons depot, a new Fundhs of good Government to tax clergy, two gallies to chase Barbary corsairs, papal almsgiving and indulgences, and Archbishopric reshuffles. Also news from Genoa on troop payments and Corsican arms, plus local London notices inviting a council seat in March 1735-6.
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Naples
Gaeta
Spain
Angelo Imperiale
Catola Papacoda
Marquess Paterno
Matthew Ferante
Vincent Opoleto
Chace
Barbary
M.de Roffi
Palermo
M. de Parieti
Rome
St. John de Lateran
Augustus
Poland
Ferrara
Ferrareze
Romagnia
Ruffo
M. Cenci
Benevento
M. Ruffo
Leca
Calabria
Pontifical
Papal Chapel
Genoa
Republick
Corsica
Port News From Falmouth Arrivals and Departures
Port news lists ships arriving from Bristol and Barbadoes, notes departures to Newfound land and Hull, and reports vessels sailing between London and New York, Seville to London, and Southampton to Barbadoes. Entries include Osborn on Bristol voyage, Stainsmore William and Belbin Mary Rainbow from this place, Sc Nicholas from Havre, Catherine Joy from South Carolina, Lusitansa from Seville, and King William from East India with various sailings and downs.
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Port News
Falmouth
Hanover
Osborn
Bristol
Pool
William
Stainsmore
Mary
Belbin
Rainbow
Durell
Newfoundland
Cowes
Sc. Nicholas
Wonga
Havre
Gilbraltar
Bond
Barbadoes
Hull
Albany
Bryant
Catherine
Downs
Arriv
King William, Sanders
East- India
Scorbutic Cure Ad Offered by London Apothecary
George Lindsay of Marygold Court near Exeter Exchange in the Strand reports eight years of red spots on the skin and scurvy symptoms. John Moore Apothecary advertises anti-scorbutic pills and purges claiming to relieve hypochondriac and hysteric pains, purge toxins, renew blood, and restore vigor, with details of cutaneous eruptions and systemic effects.
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George Lindsay
Marygold Court
Exeter Exchange
Strand
John Moore
Laurence-Pountney’s Lane
Cannnon-street
Go. Lindsay. N
Wholesale Geneva at Keen's Wharf Strand Sale
At the Apple-Brandy Warehouse on Keen's Wharf in the Strand RANDY, praised as fine as any foreign, offered daily at less than half foreign price. Palo GENEVA Holland sort, made in London, sold at 2s 4d per gallon. All are welcome to taste without buying.
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Keen's Wharf
Essex
Strand
Geneva
Holland
London
Letters from Stralsund report harsh frontier orders
Reports from London say Count Meyerfeld, Governor General of Prussia, issued strict edicts against foreign recruiters at frontiers. Bologna notes the Emperor's Commissary-General paid the Legate 6000 sequins on February 28 for German troop expenses in the province. Milan chronicles heavy snow and rains in Durchy.
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Stralsund
Stockholm
Meyerfeld
Porcerania
Bologna
Milan
Foreign News and Local Notices From the Era
Letters from Leghorn report French troops in Ferrara likely to stay in quarters until May as rivers overflow. Paris notes promotions for Chevaliers de St Louis and a Marshal of Lorraine’s leave. Rumors of Monaco matches and Monti’s Berlin trip mix with lavish Parisian livery plans for King Stanislaus. East India Company gains stock value while marriages, appointments, and deaths fill the social pages, including a Bromley marriage and a deputy governor election. A fraud case and several late-night deaths are also recorded along with ship arrivals and a wreck near Ponti-Chery with heavy losses.
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Leghorn
Ferraro
Paris
Chevaliers de St. Louis
Count de Hunolstein
Marshal of
Lorrain
N.S
Marquess de Steinville
Duke of Lorrain
Ays
Marquess de Monti
Tnorn
Hambourg
Berlin
Prussia
Stanislaus
Warsaw
Bar
Nancy
French East India Company
Yass
Richard Hammond
Putney
Miss Price
William Price
Essex
Mr. Rielley
Bromley
Bow
Miss Leach
William Leach
William Sherman
Regiment of Foot
Col. Hawley
Albriton
Deceas
John Hyde
London Assurance Office
Francis Northmore
Wadbury
Sailzs
Ely
St. James’s Street
Craddock
Tedbury
Gloucestershire
Jones
Newgate
Justice de Veil
Haymarket
Deal
Knight
Hon
East India Company
William
Saunders
Madrass
Beauford
Boulton
Godolphin
Ruppeas
Wills
Southwark
Richmond
Barns Common
Tublay
John Grimes
Grahaih
Justice Robe
Thomas Parker
Richard Drake
Parker
Lamberh
St. George’s Fields
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France
Flanders
Antegoa
Pain
Hardingston
Wilke Flon
Elizabeth
Howard
Liverpool
Gravesend
Maze Oats Tes Ee Harding
Rotterdam
Lady Elizabeth
Vinck
Amsterdam
Farringdon- Without
Richard Nutt
St. An Ludgace
Sc. Sepulchre’s
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