Court and Port News from Naples and Europe Amid War Talks
Naples reports the queen's weak condition but no fever, the king nearby, and ceremonies as Venice's ambassador seeks leave. Ongoing dispatches cover naval orders, Turkish alerts in the Archipelago, trade duties, and political shifts in Dresden Kiel and Vienna. A July-September miscellany follows with pardons, royal baptisms, naval widows' claims, marriages, a murder verdict, and stock market notes.
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John Mocenigo
Republick of Venice
Oo Palace
Duke of
Sora- Buoncom
Cardinal Spinelli
Bain
China Porcelaine
Brazil
Count de Bades-Ventimiglia
Kingdom of
Sicily
Apulia
Calabria
Archiepelago
Trapani
Barbara Galleaffe
Hambourg
Dresden
Poland
Warsaw
Count Rutowsky
Augustus II
Lubomirsky
Holstein-Gottorp
Kiel
Port News Arrivals and Departures at Gravesend
Deal, Sept. 18 Remain in the Downs his Majesty's Ship the Prince of Orange and the Allen for Orders and the Mary for ditto Arrivd the Livonia Brooks from Leghorn Wind NE Gravesend Sept 18 Arrivd the Euphrates Peacock from Smyrna the Seahorse Spurrell from Hudson's Bay the Anne and Mary Coleman from Zant and the Success Normandy from Rotterdam
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port News
Deal
Downs
Allen
Mary
Perkins
Arriv
Livonia
Brooks
Leghorn
Milan Recruit Drives in Italian Regiments in Hungary
London dispatches report recruiting in all Dutchy towns to complete Italian regiments in Hungary and similar drives in Parma and Piacenza. An advance guard of 200 troops labors on a Tortona fort near Sarcinia. Berlin letters claim the King of Prussia issued patents to establish velvet manufactories in a city.
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London
Milan
Hungary
Parma
Tlacentia
de Navarreze
Sarcinia
Tortonna
Berlin
Prussia
Robbery of North Mail at Kingsland in 1738
Public notice from the Post-Master General offers a two hundred pound reward for the capture of the lone robber who attacked the North Mail near London between two and three in the morning. Aids two accomplices suspected at a distant jam. Describes the suspect as a middle six foot man in a light coat and full bob wig. He carried five bags and seized most letters from several bags.
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Pve
Reas
London
Kingsland
Joan Jesse
Hartford
Peterborough
Horncastle
Louth
Boston
Enfield
Ware
St. Flues
Royston
N. B
Robbery of Bristol Mail on Knightsbridge Route
General-Post-Office in London reports a dawn attack on the Bristol Bath Hereford Leominster Presteigne mail near Knightsbridge and Kensington. Three men on horseback and one on foot seized the bags and fled. A two hundred pound reward plus parliamentary rewards are offered for discovery, with a royal pardon for accomplices who reveal the criminals.
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General-Post-Office
London
Knights-Bridge
Kensington
Bristol
Bath
Hereford
Leo-Minster
Presteign
John Jesse
Dividend of Lands promised by New Jersey Council 1737
The Council of Proprietors in the Eastern Division of New Jersey declares a two thousand acre dividend per propriety after two years, with further annual dividends until all common lands are allocated. Notice to proprietors in Britain and elsewhere to elect and locate past and future dividends and to act promptly at Perth Amboy on August 8, 1737, to prevent worst lands being left later.
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Francfort
Count Colloredo
Vienna
Germany
Marquess de Mirepoix
Rome
Sraffano
Palambora
Joose
Leghorn
Tunis
Suza
Smyrna
Sari- Bey-Oglow
France
Levant
Barbary
Ocean
Council of Proprietors
New Jersey
America
London
New York
Great Britain
Faid Council of Proprietors
Perth
Amboy
New Fersey
Faid Council
Cee eon FAIR Walnurts Fair At Waite Lyon Tavern
The notice announces a fair starting next Saturday at the Waite Lyon Tavern Scretham on the Road to Croydon featuring two famed Twin Bure Locks from Yorkshire and, on the following Saturday, two Virginia Hogs dressed with Apple and Muttard Sauce. Gentlemen traveling that road will receive proper entertainment at the White Lyon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waite Lyon
Scretham
Croydon
Yorkshire
White Lyon
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Naples
Gower
Thomas
Salisbury
Rockingham
Countess of Essex
Admiralty Office
Whitehall
Royal Navy
Stephen Springate
Bedford
Ely
Oxford
Muss Paget
Lewis Paget
Earl of
Uxbridge
Bates
Ether
Surrey
Barker
Nicholas Lane
Hanover Yard
Oxford-Road
John Philpot
Gillingham
County of
Kent
Theatre Royal
Covent-Garden
Dragon of Wantley
South Sea
Bank
Prem
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
Mine Adventure
Exchequer
London Bridge
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