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Foreign News and Local Disturbances in 1700s Era Letters
The latest mail from France and Holland details beheadings and punishments of criminals, plans to curb luxury in Russia, and Byzantine style notices from Madrid Leghorn and Cologne. Reports mention the hereditary prince of Courland traveling, Turkish embassies, and plague in Algiers with 40000 Turks and others dying. Local English notices describe strikes, corn shortages and defense preparations in Shaftesbury and Kingswood, with political candidate movements and city governance in Brooker and Portsmouth. The tone mirrors a late 17th to early 18th century regional briefing with varied international intelligence and domestic unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siberia
Courland
Germany
England
Heland
Jrer
Imperial Majesty
Madrid
Ferrol
Cadiz
Leghorn
Algiers
Africa
Fienal
Mannez
St. Leopold’s
Cordaint
Belgrade
Outingen
Cologne
Baron de Neuhoff
Zergues
Holland
France
Italy
Baron de Trott
Corsica
Neu- Hoff
Bergues
Port Lorient
van Eyemys M. de Vopiire
Regiment of
Chartres
Vannes
The
India Company
Loulon
Chevalier de la Roche-Allard
Hepce
Minorca
Sardinia
Affrick
Haddock
Shaftesbury
Ehpriday
Edward ‘Hooper
Earl of
Mitchief
Lawford’s
Cora
S.a Buthel
Ilits
Masket
Lawford
Henry Comve
William ‘Martin
Walter Jenkins