Hague War Negotiations and Court Notices Explored
From the London Gazette April reports Hague dispatches appointing Wartensleben to negotiate with the Electoral Troops and the Margrave of Baden Baden, with Van Haren as deputy to facilitate campaign operations. War council condemns Van Echten, names Calmette resident to Protestant Cantons, and Edward Crane gains Westminster prebend. Admiralty details Hawke’s fleet actions against Spanish ships, captures, and convoy engagements off Cadiz and Cape Cantin. Also includes court appointments, elections, and local business notices from Whitehall to Westminster.
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Council of War
Prince of Orange
M. van Etchtén
Menin
M. De.la Calmette
Whitehall
Aare
Edward Crane
St. Peter
Westminster
John Hume
Admiralty Office
Coates
Edinburgh
Eagle
Windsor
Inverness
Edward Hawke
Hivernesi
England
Phat
Cape Cantin
Colorado
Xavier
Oriente
la Galgo
Gadiz
Vera Cruz
Carthagena
Turbulent Foreign Affairs Dispatch From March 23
Reports from Turin and Paris recount Admiral Byng pressing small craft to interdict French convoys to Genoa and a French captaincy plan to guard a fleet of forty merchant ships. Liege notes French offensives aimed at Meuse and Liège regions, led by Lowendahl and Saxe, with Imperial forces delaying the attack.
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Turin
Vade
Byng
Genoa
Cat
Monaco
Paris
Marquis de Conflans
St. Gfeninge
Enghand
Chef d’Escadre
Liege
Nemer
Luximbirah
Lorrain
Meuse
Neigbourhood
Louvain
Maestricht
Ordr
Brabant
Lowendahl
Count de
Obituary Notice of Lord Reay George Mackay
The Right Hon. George Mackay Lord Reay died after a short illness at Tongue in Sutherland. He was praised as a nobleman of uncommon piety and goodness and a sincere friend to the Pretender Succession. His life was described as steady and uniform.
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Herbielves
Pluth
Andis
Donald
Reay
Edinburel
Sutherland
George Mackay
Privateer captures Newcastle coal ship and Anne Sloop
On March 16 a Dunkirk privateer seized the Newcastle Merchant from Richard Harrison after a two and a half hour engagement. A man lost an arm and a boy was wounded. the ship was badly damaged and later carried into Dunkirk. Three days later the Anne Sloop of Yarmouth, captained by John Harrison, was also taken and put in at Dunkirk.
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John. Boscawen
Duke of Cumberland
Flanders
The
Admiralty
Mills
Commodore Watson
Lion
Elliott
Louisa
Hamerley
St. Anne’s
Soho
Baker
Covent-Garden
Westminster
Lords of the Treasury
Westminster Bridge
Merchant-Taylors Halla General Court
London Assurance Company
St. James’s Park
Bank of England
Whenenjamin Longuet
William Hunt
Edward Belamy
Bryan Benson
Starhp
Brookbank
Rea Bance
Atthews Beachcroft
Thomas Cooke
William Fawkener
Robert Nettleton
Charles Palmer
Matthew Raper
Charles Savage
Robert Salusbury
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Peter Thomas
Thomas Whately
Merrick Burrell
Richard Chiswell
Benjamin Lethiullier
James Lever
Theophilus Salway
John South
Godrey
Thornton
Weyland
Hon
East-India Company
Dodding Braddyll
William Baker
William Braund
Richard Benyon
Robert Bootle
Christopher Burrow
Richard Chauncy
Roger Drake
Samuel Feake
Harry Gough
Robert Hudson
Alexander Hume
Flushing
Matthew Mitchell
Hague
England
Blagdoch
Winney
Yarmouth
Stockholm
Yorkshire
Tinmouth
Hastings
Susannah Snow
Calais
Hull
Hare
Amblare
Bourdeaux
Canada
Plymouth
Inverness
Mackenzie
Express
Coates
Beatagh
Childs
Philadelphia
Exeter
Gibraltar
Margaret
Wilson
London
Mahone
Monmouth
Harrison
Newcastle
Richard Harrison
John Harrison
Dunkirk
Falmouth
Lisbon
Endeavour
Beér
Madeira
Weymouth
Amity
Clarion
Sunderland
Betty
M‘nabb
Pool
Nicklets
James
John
Cartridge
William
Elizabeth
Rose
Steven and
Mary
Elvin
Susan
South-end
Deal
Rowland
Leghorn
Britannia
Blake
St. George
Hart
Jamaica
Story
Drake
Magrath
Cork
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London Gazette
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Oxford
J. Lenthall
John Tarver
Jonathan Mason
Walker
Chalford
Woodstock
Seat of the Muses
Francis Spicer
Lord Abington
Reading
George Nicholls
House of Peers
Edward Bacon
Isynn-Regis
Warwick Calmady
Callington
Cornwall
Viscount Castlecomer
William Ogilby
L.L
Kirkington
Mr Wandesford
James Wilkinson
AleXanger
Sir John Thompson
Alderman
Michael Impey
Stephen Law
William Mabbott
Nathaniel Newnham
Henry Plant
Thomas Phipps
William Rider
Thomas Rous
Wiliam Steele
Whichcott Turner
William Willy
James Winter
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