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News Roundup From Avignon To Stockholm
From Avignon reports the Earl of Mar travels to Rome with a valet and a Jesuit, while Lowther arrives from Scotland with funds for the Chevalier de St George. Swedish privateers seize Dutch and allied transports near Riga and Gottenburg, with hundreds of soldiers aboard. Trials in Edinburgh and Carlisle end with acquittals and executions. Exeter, Nore, and London items note ships convoy duties, Lyme distressed sufferers, Jamaica deputy governorship, a memorial at Bolsover, and South Sea stock fluctuations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam Courant
Bazil
Avignon
Earl of Mar
Rome
Lowther
Scotland
Chevalier de St. George
Tordeneheild
Norway
Edinburg
Carlisle
Colin, Campbell of
Ormandell
Thomas Tulloch
Tannachie
Ohn Balfour
A ‘Balfour
Patrick Auchmoutie
John Attray
Sir Thomas Calder
Charles Garden
Robert Mdllo
Patrick Seton
Walter Graham
Exeter
Nore
Captain Cleveland
Copenhagen
Elfiz