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Restitution Demanded for Two French Ships Seized by English
The Marquis de Maurepas presents a memorial to Lord Waldegrave in Paris demanding immediate restitution of the French ships Fiewron and the Fortune recently captured by the English in the West Indies. Reports arrive of Austrian and Turkish moves, Corsican negotiations, Saxon troop shipments, and rising naval activity in the Baltic. A Devon murder case unfolds with brutal detail as John Collings is lodged in the High Goal after confessing, while Parliament adjourns and preparations for royal lodgings and public works continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marquis de Maurepas
Waldegrave
Paris
West Indies
Holland
Vienna
Hungary
Constantinople
Asaph
Grand Vizict
Corsica
Bohemia
Mos
Czarina
Pampelona
Navarre
Felix de la Mata
Compas Mentis
Richard Lakeman
Edward Mole
Ashcombe
Devon
J. Collings
Mr. Mole
Mr. Lakeman
Collings
Colway-lane
Jane Upcot
Alphinton
John Collings
Ball
Gaffer
Joose
Halldown
Earl of Burlington
Arundle
Hampton Court
John Barnard
Charles Peers
Commons
Princess of Wales
Treasury
Customs and Excise
Augustus Fitzroy
Elecham
West- Indies
Portsmouth
Ancona
N.S
Count of
Albany
Chevalier de St. George
Georgia