Selim and Caliphate Plot Over Babylon and Grand Turk Power
A dense critique details Selim the Grandsignors embassy to Caliph Bagdet, his demand of spiritual primacy, and the mock ceremony that ends with executions of caliphal Vicars. The piece condemns Ottoman diplomacy, hypocrisy, and aggression toward Chaldea and Babylon, contrasting Porte behavior with Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soliman Ulrp
Gor
Zizim -Miupdee
Alexander VI
Soliman
Selim
Chaldea
Babilon
Bagtet the Great
Perla
Andra
Zagathai
Tartary
Turik
Bagtet
Caliph Bagter
Persia
Caliph Bagret
Rome
Ufe
Avaticg
Snocher Baie Dominic
Shipaly
Count Konigreg
d’Otterman
Crim
Russia
Europe
Port news and ships movements at Falmouth and Southampton
Port news lists ships arriving and leaving from Falmouth and Southampton with origins including Oporto Rotterdam Jamaica Barbados and Virginia. Vessels named include the Sarah Baldia John and Rebecca Mary Teague St John Trofeira Catherine Elizabeth Apollo Deborah Planter and Mary and Hannah. The report notes strong winds, anchorages, and ships remaining in the Downs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falmouth
Sarah
Baldia
Oporto
John
Rebecca
Hawkins
Rottérdam
Dirto
Mary
Olding
Faro
North West
Bristol
Catherine
Exston
Jamaica
Weston
Martin
Hland
Deal
Marth
Downs
Apollo
Smith
Barbadoes
Deborah
Hayflop
Lisbon
Planter
Underdown
Viginia
Hannah
Savage
Philadelphia
Parliament Compassion Sparks Debtor Relief Yet Rogues Fear It
London reports a mixed view of a relief bill for insolvent debtors with critics claiming it frees the truly poor while threatening rich rogues. A noon accident between Wandsworth and Battersea saw a boat capsizing, drowning a man and a boy, though a passenger and waterman survived. At the Surrey Assizes in Kingston, George Goswell and Rowland Rowley were tried for robbing Richard Evans, with John Fielder dying in gaol. Daniel Pettiward led the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Villannes
Wandsworth
Batterseg
County of
Surrey
Kingston
George Goswell
Rowland Rowley
John Fielder
Daniel Pettiward
Richard Evans
Baker
King’s Highway
Wandworth
Robbery and trials at Monmouth Street shop in London
Fragmentary report detailing an arrest for shoplifting a silver watch and clothes at a Monmouth Street shop. The suspects were brought before Col. De Veil and commited to the Gatehouse for further examination. Also notes vast imports, stock prices, and theatre listings from the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moreton
Fox
Monmouth-street
de Veil
Ireland
West-Indies
King’s Theatre
Demetrius
Theatre- Royal
Drury- Lane
Beccar
Theatre-Royal
Covent-Garden
Volpone
Flores
Lincoln’s Inn'- Fields
King Duartes
Hymen
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ie Darux Pew
Port Wews
London
London Bridge
South Sea
Botath
Sea Anna Ies
New
Sonstt
Ondon
Bolt-Court
Fleet-Street
Christ’s Churc Hospital
William
Green
Henry. Holloway
East-India House
United Company of Merchants of England
East Indies
Holden
Leadenhall
Treet
Len
Kensington
Olland House
Brooks
Matthew Blakiston
Strand
Ereby
Bae London
Greesty
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