Fires in Constantinople and Moscow updates
From the London Gazette a fire in Constantinople on November 6 destroyed near a hundred houses including residences of the Reis Effendi and other porte officers. A second midnight blaze in a gale burned for ten hours, consuming many more houses over about half a mile. Moscow reports a drop in disease with daily deaths under 73 as winter cold sets in and Count Orloff reportedly returns. Prince Volkonski is appointed Governor of Moscow. In London, Hugh Palliser and others are named principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy.
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Hugh Palliser
John Wiliams
Edmund Mason
Timothy Brett
Thomas Hanway
William Bateman
Richard Temple
Frederick Rogers
Richard Hughes
Charles Proby
Ship News Wraps Dec 27 Arrivals and Departures Worldwide
Wind shifts as ships reposition with Ear of Lincoln East- Indiaman bound for India and Witham for Jamaica. Several vessels pass Gravesend and arrive at Cowes Tortuosa Forts and ports including Riga Gottenburgh London Jamaica Alicant Rouen Honfleur Waterford Cork Ostend Rotterdam and Tobago.
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London Notice of French Ambassador Arrival and Irish Bill Debate
London reports that Count de Guignes is to be hosted at Great George Street. The three Russian princes plan to stay in England, taking a house in Leicester Fields for winter. In Ireland, alterations to a tax bill sparked heated debate over duties on herrings damask linen and cotton mixes, with fears for revenue and trade. The article also covers Dutch famine anxieties, weathered lightning damage in South Carolina, naval movements, lotteries, local crimes, and multiple obituaries and marriages.
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Daniel Stump
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Matlins College
Oxford
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