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London War News and City Crimes Chronicle 1748
Reports from The Hague mention royal displeasure and a curbing of crowds in Zealand and Northern Province. Parliaments in Bordeaux consider banning members over corn monopoly charges. A pamphlet urged nobles to fund warships. News covers Lazarus naval actions, privateer battles near Tortola and St Helena, and ships returning from Asia. Local incidents include robberies in Piccadilly, drownings, apoplexy, smuggling arrests, and a seaside shipwreck recovery. Court notices, marriages, illnesses, and deaths among London society are listed amid ongoing war chatter.
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Hague
Zealand
Middleburgh
Paris
Bourdeaux
Count de Maurepas
Fote
Luxemburgh
Vienna
Prague
Taaffe
Earl of Londonderry
Dover
France
Waffenaer
Eluiland
Duke of Portland
Holland
Lincoln’s In Hall
Windsor
Advice
Chatham
Admiralty
Nottingham
Falmouth
Batavia
Boscawen
Souadron
Cape of Good Dope
St. George
Robson
China
St. Helena
West-Indies
Purcell
Tortola
Virgin Islands
Santa Cruz
Arnold
Rhode Island
Alexander Percival
New England
St. Kit’s
Mansell
Crow
Barbadoes
Philadelphia
Guernsey
Goodwin Sands
Daniel Cookson, Esq