Contested Dec 28 Dispatches From Europe and Russia
The report cites Grand Vizir forces at 48,000 with 40,000 Asiatics deserting, a Polish Russian shift in allegiance, and Potemkin and Suwarow titles. It notes Temeswar congress arrivals, truce progress stalled, and Belgrade fortifications to stay intact. Copenhagen notes Kommissary Gaftens Kiold replaced by Pflueg as galley fleet construction proceeds.
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PrinceRethazy
Belgrade
Genfinger
Joe
Prince Nicholas
Litberg
Galticia
Poniatows
Poland
Joseph II
Russia
Austria
Potemkin
Petersburgh
Moldavia
Suwarow
Wallachia
Vienna
Temeswar
Luchefini
Sistovia
Novi
Cuzettin
Choczim
Copenhagen
Gaftens Kiold
Pflueg
Animals and weather hints from the Catskills to Nova Scotia
Reports from the North ward describe many wolves killed by residents near the Catskill Mountains as bears and other wild animals descend from the north causing sheep losses. Extra letters note unusually large ice and cold offshore, with a sea-faring cloud of ice at 44 latitude and a Grand Bank sighting. Another letter from Charleston reports Cap Francois turmoil with the governor beheaded and Haitian fighting, as 250 soldiers sail to Port-au-Prince to aid besieged troops amid rising chaos.
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America
New-York
Catskill Mountains
Europe
St. Fohn’s
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland
North Seas
George
Grand Bank
Charles Town
South_ Carolina
Antoine
Cape Francois
Aux-Cays
Port-au-Prince
Aux.Cays
Iland
Leogan
Lantern at Hook Tower Lantern Erected for Sea Route
Waterford December 21 A temporary lantern is set on Hook Tower by order of the Commissioners of Revenue. It contains four lamps and reflectors and will be visible at sea from sunset to sunrise until the large lantern is completed. The light will remain steady and unchanging in all weather, resembling the fish light in appearance.
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Ireland
Waterford
Hook Tower
Illiam Slark
Cheapside
Pantheon
Furning
Marble discoveries in Western Isles promise island prosperity
Edinburgh reports Rafpe the mineralogist arriving at Walker's hotel with news of valuable marble quarries found in the Western Isles. A shipload has reached Leith and more stores sail soon for workers. Rafpe also notes additional mines that could greatly aid the island. William Napier, a 105 year old laborer of Balerno, died, with his son attending the funeral needing support.
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Edinburgh
Walker’s
Rafpe
Wesern Isles
Scotland
Italy
Leith
Raspe
William Napier
Balerno
Currie Parish
Michael Angelo Taylor elected Heytesbury MP in Wiltshire
London reports Michael Angelo Taylor Esq elected member for the Borough of Heytesbury in place of William Pierce Ashes Court Esq who has accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. The trampling news covers a hurricane along the Flemish coast, the capture of Martinique by Black forces, and dispatches from Commodore Cornwallis and Captain Byron in India stating British captives in Tippoo Sultan’s prisons were free. Also noted are ship arrivals, a windmill near Cape Romaine mistaken for a lighthouse, a near drowning near Islington, and various local notices including marriages and deaths.
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Michael Angelo Taylor
Heytesbury
Wilts
William Pierce Ashes’Court
Ostend
Flanders
Scheldt
Paris
Martinico
O’connor
Guadaloupe
M*namara
France
Tellicherry
Cornwallis
Byron
Tippoo Sultan
England
States of
Brabant
Ghent
Koehler
Bath
Monro
M‘dermot
Pennington
Fellows
Gerrard
Schwens
Nicholson
Langford
O*murphy
Law
Segrave
O.dunn
James Cochran
Lough Foyle
Grenock
New York
United States
Dublin Bay
Cape Romaine
South Carolina
Charles-town
Cape. Romaine
Charlestown
Vreedon
Koeloft
London
Amsterdam
Texel
Ganonberghoule
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Ore
Hal- Famiders
H Cotland
Islington
Clerkenwell
John Fisher
Chris’s College
Cambridge
Ashford
Ludlow
Shropshire
Richard Halé-Green
Burford-house
Mary Burwall
Edward Burwall
Butterley
Hugh Smith
Bridge-street
Black-Friars
E. Hibbs
Monument-Yard
Hibbs
Josepa Firber
New Bond Street
Brook Street
Redruth
Cornwall
Ichard
Catharine Knight
Oxford Inn
London Inn
Philip Trevena
J. Johnson
St. Paul’s Churchyard
Nature
St Paul’s Church
Ards
N.B
Egerton
Peleta Bed
Magdalen
Paul's Church
Brice
Robert B. Teer
Eig
Pinelly
James Robson
Bockeller
New Bond-Street
Davis
Holborn
Lane
Sewell
Corbi
Avas
Debrett
Lords
Commons
Berkshire
Gloucestershire
Oxfordshire
High Court of Chance
Caufey Shuttleworth
Fettiplace
Peter Holford,” Esq
Theaig
Symond’s Inn
Clancetyn+Lane
Fervey
Thomas Fettiplace
Efys
Intober
Satwell
Wallingford
William Hazell
Berks
Eaton-Hastings
Fareringdon
Cathérine Hambidge
Qldfield
Stephens
Kencot
Burford
Oxford
Townssend
Staple-Inn
Aldridge
Bedford-Row
Landen
Frogatt
Castle-Street
Leicester-Fields
Hackney
Itling
Garraway
Bathange-Alley
Cornhill
Melis
Bedford
Blackwall-Hall-courty
Guildhall
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