News from Europe and distant ports in late September
Parliamentary dispatches report Mediation from Paris and Stockholm seeking peace with Sweden under Nystadt terms, Swedish levies and fortifications, Austro-French maneuvers near Bohemia, and Prague garrison changes. Maillebois and Broglio actions near Plan Hamershoff are noted, with skirmishes, casualties and strategic shifts. Port news cover ships arriving in Bristol Portsmouth Deal Gravesend and other ports with naval movements and the Portugal king’s health.
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Allion
Versailles
Stockholm
Sweden
Nystadt
Petersbourg
Russia
Plan
Bohemia
Maillebois
Tirchenreuth
Upper Palatinate
Pramhoff
Prague
Cis
Hamershoff
Saxony
Melnick
Leitmatitz
Beraun
Ratifoon
Berendlau
Bavaria
Tyrol
Count Seckendorff
Hussars
London high life advances for royal birth day festival
Readiness for an expedition to receive his Majesty and the royal family at St James's Palace for the winter season. The King's baggage returns to Whitehall and then to St James's. master painters are invited to decorate Earl of O's Hall. Mr John Wilson named court keeper and sewers messenger. Mr Wright appointed head master of Woolwich academy with high gunnery talents. Bombardeers' son progress noted. A Dorset marriage unites Henry Thornhill Elg with Miss Nelly Durell. Death of Capt John Peddie, commander of Basilisk Bomb, after heroically defending Prince of Orange then wrecking near Margate Road.
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Whitehall
Sir Philip Meadows
St. James’s
Gravesend
Europe
England
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John Wilson
King-street
Westminster
Liberty
Gibbs
Wright
Academy
Woolwich
Bombardeers Sons
Pool
Dorsetshire
Henry Thornhill
James Thornhill
Nelly Durell
Jamaica
John Peddie
Prince of Orange
Margate Road
the Admiralty
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