European Powers Plan Troop Reform and Withdrawals
Dispatches report that auxiliary troops of Rusia are moving home and a definitive peace treaty may be signed soon. Measures for reforming forces are underway as evacuations of the Dutch and Austrian Low Countries edge closer. The king expects troops to march to the frontiers and awaits news on Corsica and other strategic shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W&ia
Mafhristian
Britannick
States General
Hs Britannick
United Provinces
Sandwich
St. Severina
Paris Alamain
Rusia
Low Countries
Cape Breton, &c
Parmd
Placentia
Guastalla
Don Philip
Duke of
Richlieu
Corsica
Severe Cold Death Toll in Plantation Town
Boston in New England reports severe colds sweeping through all ages with 2000 ill and many deaths in forty eight hours. Two meeting-houses closed on the Lord's Day as the cold spreads across the country and proves mortal to the aged, including several notable individuals. A vessel from Mantucket confirms the drought destroying corn and grass across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New England
Mantuchet
Forresters publicly punished and arms delivered in Scotland
Edinburgh dispatch reports Robert and George Forresters were set on the pillory in Glasgow under a Court of Session sentence. It notes a strong corn crop in the North but fodder scarcity due to drought, and fifteen waggons of arms delivered by Highlanders under the recent act were brought to the Castle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scofland
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Robert
George Forresters
Court of Session
Dublin August 13 Whipping for insolent language and extortion
An item reports a Hackney Coachman and Chairman whipped in Dublin for insolent language to gentlemen and overcharging fares. A private letter from Newry Canal mentions a coal company formed with English investors to work pits in Tyrone, planning 10000 tons of coal and a water wheel by spring. Notables including the Primate and bishops are said to be aiding by selling timber for canal works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irelan
Dublin
Newry Canal
Tean
Ireland
Fletcher
Derbyshire
England
Tyrone
Down
Lord Primate
Messrs Staples and Caulfield
Arthur Hill
Acheson Ohnston
Marriages and arrivals mark Dublin week of notes
Last Thursday the Earl of Clanrickard arrived from England. Mears, a Mercer, wed Miss Mead, daughter of linen-draper Mead, a great fortune. Locusts in kingdom cause concern as in German and London papers. Lord Petersham took oaths as Customer and Collector of the Port of Dublin replacing the late Percival. David Owens of Bridge Street married Miss Fullam of Bridge Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl of Clanrickard
England
Mears
Miss Mead
Thomas Mead
London
Lord Petersham
Baron Dawson
Reverend Henry Penton Dies Vicar of Christleton and St Nicholas
The Rev. Mr. Henry Penton, vicar of Christleton and St. Nicholas in Tenet, died on Wednesday. These livings are in the gift of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canterbury
Henry Fy Penton
Chistlet
St. Nicholas In
Tenet
Letter from the Reynolds and Tindall voyage to Lancaster
A long extract describes Reynolds and Tindall sailing from Jamaica to Lancaster aboard the Reynolds with convoy to England. It details dispersal, encounters with English warships and merchantmen, prize captures, cargoes of indigo and cocoa, and various ship movements and notices from Dover to Cadiz. Reports include European political and military updates, troop recruiting in Prussia, and local civic actions in England.
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S. Extraé
Reynolds
Tindall
Jamaica
Lancaster
Berry
Old Harbour
Godolphin
Cape St. Anthony
Havannah
Florida
Fowey
Bay
Honduras
North America
Carteret
Stevenson
Port Royal
England
Deal
Ball
Antigua
Bristol
Fanny
Maxwell
St. Kitts
Ditto
London
Friendship
Clark
Barbadoes
Dover
Nevis
Maynard
Mary Anne
Richards
Cowes
Gerardus
Fearon
Portsmouth
Bourdeaux
Elizabeth
Manby
Charming Polly
Brewer
Draper
Newcastle
Maryland
Olive Branch
Koulikan
Peachy
Spanish Coast
Count de la Salle sails to Rochelle amid European intrigue
A private letter from Hamburgh notes the Count de la Salle boarded a vessel July 30 bound for Rochelle and that Petersburgh awaits reaction to the affair. The French court had offered punishment upon proof of offences against the Empress of Russia, which was rejected in harsh terms, and Vienna reports a detailed account of the recent Constantinople insurrection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Don
Hamburgh
Count de la Salle
Rochelle
N.S
Petersburgh
France
Russia
Vienna
Constantinople
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Deliza
Parma
Modena
Madrid
Infanta
Cadiz
Havanna
Frackfort
Silesia
Saxony
Maastricht
Namur
Alem
Liege
Maestricht
Frize
Lewarden
Downs
St. Kit’s
Lisbon
East India Company
Schefter
John Todd
Tagus
Bombay
D’abbadie
Portfield
Francis D
Hampton Court
St. Alban’s
Tyger
Admiral Warren
Madeira
Beven
New York
Susanna
Wood
Philadelphia
Baily
Yarmouth
Marseilles
Tarifa
Gibraltar
Edmund Gibsén
Fulham
Bath
East Riding
Yorkshire
Dillingham Boswell
Wimondhall
Leicester
Lincoln
Preston
Marshalsea
Southwark
Vohitchall
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