European Armies Move and Plot Across Five Theaters
From Foligno to Brussels and Paris, dispatches describe Duke de Montemar delayingvasion, Mortemar plans coastline operations, Coigny refused command, Noailles appointed, and French troop movements provoking Austrian, English, and Hessian reactions. Reports note sieges near Prague, marching plans toward Deggendorf, and preparations for train and artillery amid growing tensions across Flanders, Bohemia, and Franconia.
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Tuscany
Orbitello
Porto Hercule
Paris
Marshal Coigny
Flanders
Marshal Noailles
Pais
Marquess de Beringhen
France
Marshal de Noailles
Donai
Marshal de Woailles
Dunkirk
Francfort
Deggendorff
Ingolstadt
Danube
Stadt-amshoff
Straubingen
Hambourg
Prague
Marshal Maillebois
Arriv’d
Franconia
Bohemia
Hague
Nuremberg
de Maillebois
Forth
Hussars
Brussels
Chevalier Uranizer
Earl of Stair
Count Neuperg
Great Britain
Coasting Vessel captures mutinous boat crew in Wexford harbor
From Wexford comes word of a coasting vessel between Arklow and the port detaining eight men from a counterfeit fining boat. The captain used an oar to subdue the boat commander, crew with handspikes secured the others, the boat’s men cried for quarter and were taken aboard the coaster and brought to Wexford. Also noted: Col George Robinson died at his Marlborough Street home. a Manooth woman poisoned a child over a lover’s quarrel, sought and captured two days later.
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Ireland
Dublin
Wexford
Arklow
Marlborough Street
George Robinson
Queen Anne
Flanders
Manooth
Traitor Roger Freeman in Newgate for High Seas Plunder
Bristol reports Roger Freeman, a member of the Carmen Privateer of St Sebastian, committed to Newgate for traitorous actions against the Crown. He boarded and plundered the Swallow of this port, aided in taking the prize, and confessed to two further London prizes brought in by the Carmen. Freeman stole a silver watch from Capt Blake's second mate and is described as an Irish papist who traveled under a Spaniard's guise.
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Bristol
Newgate
Roger Freeman
St.Sebastian
Blake
St. Sebastian’s
London
Plymouth
Rupert
Ambrose
Port News: Arrivals from Jamaica St Kitts Virginia and Leghorn
Vessels arrive in Deal and Dover on September 5 from Jamaica St Kitts Virginia Leghorn Nevis Nevis and Oporto. Baracuta Bathfun New England Merchant and others from Jamaica and St Kitt's. Sophia Ruffel Sasannah outward-bound. Diamond St George Trimmer Catherine from Lisbon. Deal Castle Prize and Francis Warren from Opore.
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Deal
Baracuta
Bowers
Bathfun
Smith
Jamaica
Scroope
Conway
Willet
Griffith
New England
Knight
St. Kitt’s
Roehampton
Tobin
Nevis
Prince Frederick
Loney
Pembroke
Gwynn
Virginia
Britannia
Progtor
Francis
Warren
Rysbrack
Gurin
Oporto
Reddard
Catherine
Perry
Lisbon
Lilly
Townshend
Deal Castle
Sumner
Opore
Names of Jamaica Barbadoes Antigua and Montferrat figures listed
A fragmented list names multiple individuals and ships from Jamaica Barbadoes Antigua Montferrat and other places. The text cites figures such as the Warren Nichols Susannah Latchford Content Cooper Aaron Moon Rowland Sullivan Fortune Sears Partridge Pearce Volunteer Barnett Montferrat Merchant Fergus Earl of Gainsborough Gary Spsannah Salter Atalanta Leigh from various locations including St Kitts and North Carolina.
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Aurora
Davis
Legunja
Angwin
Catherine
Curtis
Jamaica
Warren
Nichols
Susannah
Latchford
Barbadoes
Content
Cooper
Antigua
Aaron
Moon
Rowland
Sullivan
Fortune
Sears
Seward
Partridge
Pearce
Volunteer
Barnett
Montferrat
Fergus
Earl of Gainsborough
Gary
St. Kitt’s
Spsannah
Salter
North Carolina
Atalanta
Leigh
St.itt’s
Ships Arrived at the Downs from India and Africa
News from London reports the safe arrival at the Downs of seven Indian ships including the York and Nassau from Bombay, Bengal, and St Helena routes. Additional ships from St Helena and Bengal convoyed home, with word of a French convoy and Captain Saunders’s death. Also notes dockyard launch of Monmouth, deaths of Gibbons and Bowman, a cricket match result, and imports and exports from the Streights and other ports along with a Cowes letter on Georgia and Spaniards.
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East India House
Downs
York
Lascellés
China
Godolphin
Bombay
Nassau
Jackson
Bengal
London
Bootle
Bencoolen
Wager
Raymond
Prince of Orange
Hudson
Ditto
Bedford
Weils
St. Helena
Saunders
Fort St. George
King William
Monmouth
Deptford Dock
Old Broad-Street
Gibbons
Tower-Hill
Leadenhall-Street
Bowman
Lottery Office
Stendon
Sussex
Thuch
Streights
Petersbourg
Antigua
Holland
Dunkirk
New England
C. Ditto
New York
Cowes
Parham Park
Alloway
South Carolina
Charles Town
Oglethorp
Georgia
Frederica
J Alloway
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