News From Europe and Port Notices Across May
The May dispatch covers mail from Holland and letters from Petersbourg on May 8. Reports speak of Ottoman Turkish peace talks, potential congress venues, and Russian imperial pressure. Madrid and Rome items note camp plans, Neapolitan embassies, and robberies en route. Vienna notes war preparations and expects war with the Porte if preliminaries fail. Port news from Southampton to Gravesend lists ships arrivals and sailings in late May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugernes
Asaph
Ukrain
Russia
Thomas Kouli Kan
Madrid
Aranjuez
St. Idefons
Segovia
Rome
Count de Montijo
Great Britain
Duke de Monteleon
Naples
Cardinal del Guidice
Holy Roman Empire
Cardinal Acquaviva
d’Harach
Ancona
Porte
Vienna
Berenday
Petersbourg
Seckendorff
Khevenhuller
Saxe-Hildbourghausen
Duke of Lorrain
Presbourg
Ogilvy
Bohemia
Hungary
Brown
Vidin
M. du Theil
Luxembourg
Paris
Port News
Southampton
Jane
Pitton
Guernsey
Elizabeth
Mayner
Jersey
Leake
Deal
Eagle
Cathcart
West Indies
William
Whitbord
Cadiz
Fortune
Mont
St. Abes
Mary
Gravesend
Thomas and
James
Heron
Rotterdam
Jemima
Brummelt
Amsterdam
Duke of Kingston
Merrington
Boulogne
Richmond
Cranwell
Patience
Christall
Norway
Toller
Spanish and Austrian diplomacy mingle in Parma plans and war talk
From Vienna comes word of a press to unite Vienna and Madrid, proposing Parma and Placentia move to Spain with Luxembourg-style money compensation and Turkish war support. Reports detail large Protestant emigrations to Hungary, Russian troop counts, and a Danish victory context, alongside court letters from Louis and Amelot praising Monti and the Dantzick debt remittance and local notices of marriages and court judgments.
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Vienna
Parma
Placentia
Spain
Madrid
Tuscany
Don Philip
Lorrain
the Two Sicilies
Swabia
Franconia
Hungary
M.du Thiel
Russia
Munich
Dantzick
de Monti
Marquess de Monti
D . . Louis
Amelot
Theatre notices and Latin verse at Drury Lane
An evening at the Theatre-Royal Drury Lane features The Miser with The Wat a'ye Call it as High Waters near London Bridge are noted. The fragment references underwriter remarks and Latin quotations, with mentions of Regency text and a 6:13 pm tide notice.
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Psaum
Vis
Theatre-Royal
Drury Lane
Market values for South Sea stock and related securities
A historical listing shows South Sea stock at 1033 years value with annuities at 7ths and 3ths, plus Royal Exchange and India premiums, three per cent, exchequer orders, and Emperor's Loan figures. Various bonds and tallies are noted with corresponding prices and fractions, reflecting a broad securities snapshot.
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South Sea
New South Sea
Prem
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London
Ine Adventure
Royal Hospital Seamen at Greenwich seeks linen suppliers
Directors of his Majesty's Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich advertise a call for volunteers to supply linen. Applicants must attend Salters Hill on Wednesday the 25th at eleven in the forenoon or contact the hospital steward for details on the service and species involved.
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Chapel of the Rolls
Derry
Glover
Leonidas
Nunn
Court of King’s Bench
Stephen Sutton
Northampton
Charing-Cross
Streights
Safton
Bremen
Heilens
Holland
Calais
Dunkirk
Spain
Eriol
Royal Hospital
Greenwich
His Majesty’s Royal “Hospital
Linnen
Salters-F Hill
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Versailles
M. de Monti
Burger-Matter
Dantzickers
Czarina
Augustus
The
Daily Post
London Bridge