Prague Blockade Eases as French Advance Threatens Bohemia
Reports from Prague note the city is no longer fully blockaded except on one side and Saxony supplies have reached the town at reasonable prices. Marshal Maillebois’s army moves toward Carlstadt and Leitmariz to press into Bohemia while Austrian forces counter. A looming battle seems likely as both sides advance.
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Nuxemberg
Oxober
Prague
Saxony
Benethe
Maillebois
Carlstadt
Leitmariz
Bohemia
Egra
Paris
Ziatec
Marshal Mailwis
Mariscal Maillebois
Marshal Gillebois
Jean
House of Austria
Inch Court
Royal Augmentation and Appointments in Ireland Dragoons
His Majesty orders an adjutant per regiment and twenty privates per troop for Irish dragoon regiments. Knights and gents named as adjutants to various regiments. New captains, surgeons, and officers appointed by Lords Justices. Port news lists arrivals from Barbadoes, Stockholm, Maryland and Jamaica plus ships at Deal, Bristol and other ports.
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Dublin
Dominick Heyland
Castlecow
Celerain
Littler
Londonderry
Whitehaven
Globe
Workington
Beaumaris
Scotland
Liverpool
Armitage
John Raynor
Holyhead
Samuel
Bickford
Jamaica
Gilbert Rummer
Francis
Cannon
Perifi
Ireland
Bublin‘Castle
Omas Kynaird
Lord Tlesworth
Edward
Clayton
Daniel Tomkins
Bowles
John Arabin
Andrew Deruffat
Cotdbell
Regiment of Foot
Lords Justices
Hford Wynne
Ilingar
Philipstown
Tullamore
James Davys
Ordie
Peter Virafell
Port News
Bristol
Seneca
Jones
Barbadoes
William and
Sarah
Stockholm
Dover
Mitford
Roe
Princess of Wales
Redwood
Kemp
Maryland
Friendship
Morgan
Exeter
London
Deal
Royal
Industry
Priscilla
Charming Susan
Scot
Carolina
Catherine
Perry
Lisbon
New England
Knight
Cork
Arriv
Dolphin
Smith
Wind S. W
Notable Deaths and a North Shields Footpad Incident
Bath notes the deaths of Alderman Richard Morgan and prominent marble carver John Harvey, praising Harvey's skill in drawing and architecture. Newcastle reports an assault on farmer Adam Pird near Shields Road as he refused a thief's demand, a pistol misfire allowing the victim to escape.
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Country News
Bath
Jaft
Richard Morgan
John Harvey
Newcastle
Adam Pird
North Shields
Biker Hill Gate
Shields Road
Westminster Parish Plans Tabernacle After Fire
London reports the Duke d Aremberg, Hungarian minister, will remain away beyond Parliament. A tabernacle is to be erected for the use of St John the Evangelist parish residents until their burned church is rebuilt.
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London
d’Aremberg
Hungary
St. John the Evangelist
Westminster
Man Beheads Wife and Child in Tower Hill Murder Case
In Fry's Court on Tower Hill Jeremiah Swift a Taylor attacked his wife who had just given birth a month earlier. He struck her with a lap-board splitting her skull and killing the infant who lay in the mother's lap. Swift is secured at the Tower Gaol awaiting the coroner's inquest.
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Jeremiah Swift
Taylor
Fry’s Court
Tower
Hill
Gorelope
Golding
Virginia
Liverpool
Bonagal
Treland
Deptford
Portsmouth
Cambridge
Duke
Broad- Street
Chatham
Lancaster
Severn
Royal George
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Thusbday
Ogober
France
Falmouth
Joseph
Eaves
Pool
Lettice
Friend
Drake, Archer
Newfoundland
Theatre Royal
Deury-Lane
Richard the Third
Covent - Garden
London Bridge
South Sea
New South Sea
Bank
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Duttano
Marine Coffee
Birchin-Lane
John Porter
St. Clement’s
Mercer
Robert Kirk
St. Martin’s le Grand
Cheayside
Colerain
Focales
Abciis
T. Cooper
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