Extract from a Hague report on Europe says peace likely at Aix la Chapelle
The Hague extraction notes that Austria and Vienna favor rapid peace at Aix la Chapelle with territorial adjustments involving Maastricht and Limburg. It cites promises affecting Seria, the Elector Palatine, and the Dutch Republic, while warning of French influence and disguised actors within the Netherlands. The letter also mocks French agents as masters of disguise and urges Britons to resist French manipulation.
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Victory Day Celebrations in Liverpool Under Royalist Rule
On the anniversary of Cumberland’s victory over the Rebels the city marked the occasion with bells, a sunlit Exchange gathering, and Loyalist toasts. The Independent Company under Capt Loftus fired volleys as bonfires burned and the populace celebrated, despite some dissenters.
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Privateers in the English Channel and a prisoner voyage
Extract from a Southampton letter dated April 18 recounts Captain Mourant’s voyage from Portsmouth to Guernsey captured January 21 by Nicholas Bazille’s Dieppe privateer. Crew stripped and prisoners ransomed. Boulogne and Calais privateers operate near Cherbourg and the Isle of Wight. Additional notes mention sixteen privateers at Calais, Dunkirk, Dieppe, and Havre, with cruisers between the Isle of Wight and Cherbourg.
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Lords appoint Evans and Gambier to command ships
London reports the Lords of the Admiralty name Richard Evans to command the Squirrel Man of War of twenty guns and Captain Gambier to command the Flamborough Man of War of twenty two guns. Orders call for ten sail of men of war to prepare for the Channel. Private letters note Dutch passage by the Wessels down the Maese blocked by the French, hindering merchants. The Squirrel under Skeating from Boston was returned after weather, with high insurances noted. Caiist, Th. Joseph and Ano Bearcroft bound for Rene Monies with rum and sugar lost near Sandy Hook, crew and cargo largely gone.
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