Mail from Flanders and Naples Despatches Across Europe
Extracts from Palermo dated Aug 16 report the Viceroy visiting major towns with engineers and workers expanding Melazzo and Syracuse fortifications. Scarcity of corn drives shipments from abroad. Messina pilgrims suspected as spies. Tunisian corsairs disturb Trapani. Belgrade marks 1717 victory with elaborate procession and salutes. Parma funds efforts to recover Castro and Ronciglione. Vatican aid to Malta. Various notices from Venice to Turin note health, regencies, and alliances being discussed. Maritime arrivals and departures observed from Falmouth to Deal with multiple ships and cargoes.
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Melazzo
Syracusa
Messina
Tunis
Trapani
Belgrade
Alexandrine
Pals
Alexander
Wirtemberg
Marulli
Baron d'Albon
Harrach
Maria Theresa
Leopold
Eugene of Savoy
Alexander Wirtemberg
Charles
Rone
Duke of
Parma
Italy
Order of
Malta
Venice
Bologna
Ormea
Turin
Rome
Florence
Milan
Count Daun
Vienna
Monochhio
Cremona
Bendoce
Pavia
Genoa
Modena
Burlesque at the Corner of Lincoln's Inn Fields Tomorrow
At the ORATORY near Clare-market a burlesque on Cowley’s Mistress is set for tomorrow at seven. Also advertised are a voyage introduction to courtship in She-land, notes from Travels, Sir Richard Steele’s Exodum, and Chimes of the Times with a Smack edition tomorrow.
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Oratory
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields
Clare-market
Cowleey
Cowley
She-land
Daily Post
R. Steele
Times
Royal Arrival Preparations and Notable Deaths in London
London report notes Colonel James Pelham and guards awaiting the king's Hanover arrival with salutes in St. James's Park. Deteriorating posts include corpses to Dalkeith interment, Jaft's death from dropry after taps, and Norfolk's town visit. Also mentions Rev. Hunter's death and insolvency releases at Guildhall Sessions.
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James Pelham
Prince of Wales
Gravesend
Hanover
St. James’s Park
Kensington
Margate
Harwich
Jaft
Brook Street
Hanover Square
Colin Campbell
Efy
Greenwich Hospital
Jane
Countess of
Arundel Castle
Sussex
Mr. Hunter
Waterbury
Kent
Rochester
Guildhall
Everal
Surprising parish church assault shocks St Martin's Fields
An unknown foreign gentleman in fine dress fired two loaded pistols at Rev Mr Taylor during evening prayers at St Martin's in the Fields. One ball grazed the reader, another wounded Mr Williams, a Bedford Bury farrier, in a pew. The attacker was captured, wounded, and jailed at the Round House, claiming bread was promised by kings and clergy but not given.
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St. Martin’s
Taylor
Williams
Bedford Bury
Carman
Great Britain
France
Earl of
Marshalsea Court
Gare House
Covent Garden
Rotherhith
St. James
Garlickhith
Wintry
Doctor Warren
St. Mary
Bow
Stratford
Edinburgh
England
Col. Horfly
York Buildings Company
Highlands
Norway
Europe
Porssbourg
Porteran
Meore
Glasgow
South Sea
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London
York Buildings
English Gossper Glass
Welch Ditto
South Sea Bonds
Prem
Ditto
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Viterday
Flanders
Palermo
Reggio
Prince Royal
Pignerol
Sardinia
Chamber of Accounts
Madrid
Falmouth
Benjamin
Anne
Leghorn
Truro
Bristol
Birdwood
Eagle Packet
Emmet
Corunna
Mounts Bay
Beale
Streights
Plymouth
Toptham
Smith
Sc. Sebastian’s
Biggs
Hambourg
Cadiz
Dartmouth
Torbay
John and
Anne of
the Harrison
Harrison
East Country
The
Brothers
Hutton
Staten
Gloucester
Ball
Nevis
Lady Margaret
Elpenden
Amsterdam
His Majesty’s Company of Comedians
Theatre Royal
Drury Lane
Lady Townly
Mrs. Oldfield
Lord Townly
Mr. Wilks
Mr. Manly
Mr. Mills
F. Wronghead
Mr. Cibber
Count Baffler
Mr. Bridgwater
Lady Grace
Porter
Lady Wronghead
Thurmond
Miss Jenny
Cibber
Trusty
Mills
David Sinklar
Fielding
Regiment of
Invalids
Castle Inn
Wood-tree
To-morow
Sarah
Richard Mullock
Yayler
John Moore
Laurence Pountney
Cannon-stree
Sarah Mullich
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