Earthquake Ravages Cities Across Havens and Courts
Vivid dispatches describe a violent earthquake in Pekin and surrounding provinces, toppling half the king's palace, temples, and towers and burying inhabitants. The disaster, felt through Pe keli and Canton, prompts a four day fast in the empire as officials plan re building and celebrate a royal victory abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pekeli
Chanfi
Honan
Canton
Cham-Cham-Yam
Porte
Ibrahim
Mahomet
Heavenly Mosque
Caspian Sea
Russia
Niester
Dnieper
Afeph
Grand Visier
Fourman
Levin
Academy of Sciences
Paris
Europe
Mostow
Dobhorucki
Derbent
Schirvan
Wiesbach
Ferfia
Prath
Fultowa
Bender
Pulsowa
Florence
Ascanio
Spain
Don Carlos
Italy
London Gazette of military and court notices across 15 entries
Reports from London include Captain Coulston killed the Queen's Hand for the regiment, Capt Bagnal promoted, commissions sent to Hanover, Court drawing rooms on Princess Amelia's birthday, travels of Lord Walpole, and arrivals of ships Carolina William and Mary. Also notes appointment of Daniel Bond to Vicarage of Lye, mournful Dover arrival of Lady Milsingtown with her deceased husband, a debt escape from a coffee house, a poisoning attempt at a Fleet prisoner’s dinner, a sentinel suicide near Highgate, and Irish petitions for fairs at Abbey Town. Additional items cover local robberies, bribes and liquor seizures at Temple-Bar and Ringsend, with warrants issued and officers transported to Newgate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coulston
Frit Regiment of Guards
Saville
Deceas
Bagnal
Irit
Hanover
Amelia
Lord Walpole
Dorsetshire
Earl of Sunderland
Paris
Viscount Torrington
Hague
Carolina
William and Mary
Fubbs
Charlotte
Mary
Holland
Deptford
Daniel Bond
Lye
Gloucester
Milsingtown
Dover
Compter
Foot Guards
Highgate
Dublin
George Gore
S Court of Common Pleas
Ireland
Linnen
Thaurfiay
Malleru Fes
Temple-Bar
Newgate
Ringsend
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China
Warsaw
House of Lefezinski
France
Stanislaus
Stanislau
Nonz
Sevill
Great Britain
Cadiz
Basil
Genoa
Vienna
Gibraltar
Unrecht
Viscount Townshend
David Pouchond
Diemer
Heffe-Caffel
Hazue
Funez
Seville
Soffons
Stanhope
Poiitz
M. Gedde
Sweden
Count Golofskin
Rum
Count Barlewitz
Ot Holstein
Soiffons
Baron Sparre
M. Goflinga
M. Hungronie
Count de Koningsfelt
Baron Franken
Versailles
Soissons
Falmouth
Lynn
Oporto
John Edwards
Ditto
Malaga
Henry Digg
Lisbon
Robert Lovel
W. Arts
Eagle
Corunta
Henry Emmet
Humber
Newcastle
Thomas Egleston
Berry
William James
Hunter
Bremen
William Welder
Croswick
Benjamin Clyes
Bristol
Sherley
Kennedy
Jamaica
Martilda
John Gytherns
Lovely Jackson
James Eustace
Barbadoes
Unity
Beard
Antigua
Roebuck
Richard Challoner
Monmouth
Smith
Denton
Squirrel
George Griffiths
Content
Townshend
Africa
Padington
London
St. Kitts
Nancy
Foy
Deal
Donovan
Skene
Whidah
Story
Succes
Cannon
Wind E. N.E
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