Murder of Major Sinclair Revealed in Baltic Journey Tale
A full account published in Stockholm details Major Malcolm Sinclair's murder voyage from Constantinople toward Poland in 1739. The report follows Sinclair and French merchant Couturier from Adrianople to Breslau, with suspicions of espionage, garbled passports, and a staged pursuit by Cossacks, ending as authorities seize papers and examine bonds of Charles XII.
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Sinclair
Stockholm
Ajor Malcolm Sinclair
Constantinople
N.S
Sieur Couturier
Adrianopie
Charles XII
Mustapha-Pacha
Adrianople
Couturier
Tartar
Aga
Choczim
Moldavia
Leopold
Warsaw
Poland
Count Potocky
Darewsky
Palatine of Kiev
Stanislavia
Lugensko
Kiew
Ghnneva
Gogan
Holstein
Silesia
Lublinitz
Kien
Breslau
John Theiler
Joan Buneck
Schultz
Count Schaffgotich
John Puneck
Psison
St. Vincent’s Convent
Sincidir
Extraordinary Irish gale and coastal notices in Dublin Ireland
Dispatches recount Captain Chipps arriving from Dantzick in an open boat with a boy, storms near Liverpool driving ships ashore, a doomed lighter with coal, and warnings of wreck plunder. Ballycastle coal project praised for trade potential amid harbour upgrades, plus a strange winged creature shown in Belfast and Manchester vessel wrecks. Reports from Drogheda detail a renewed Robber outbreak with Meath men pursuing four felons near Trim.
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Cork
Chipps
Dantzick
Barbadoes
Dublin
Lewis Folliot
Ie Re. Hion
Lord Tyrawhey
Bullock and
Dunlary
Ballycastle
Gormoyl
Belfast
Lilburne
Lurgan
Antrim
Cleveland
Liverpool
Robinson
Drogheda
Ireland
Queen’s County
Meath
Trim
Ballyniadan
Airave
Duleek
Horsebeck
Mullafeen
Babrath
Gerrald Ayimer
Killorew
Cutlody