Price of Corn Sparks Electoral Provisions Debate
A foreign affairs letter notes Treves forbids export of corn to avert shortage as French armies gather. It cites ministerial replies about local provisioning, guard orders, and fears of French magazines. Letters from The Hague discuss Congress prospects, Russian marches, and Prussia's potential response to eastern moves.
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Coblentz
Treves
Hague
Congress
States General
Petersbourg
Lithuania
Prussia
Empire
Parliament Adjourns as Corn Export Ban Rumored
The two Houses adjourn to Monday amid reports a bill will bar corn exports for a period. News notes ships carrying corn bound for France, with French passports allegedly secured and policies offered. Also reports court actions, royal appointments, marriages, deaths, and local trials across London and beyond.
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France
Ships Arrive and Depart as Fleet Moves Westward
The report notes Scar borough Danverge and the Essex with five other ships returning from East India but their names remain at port. Vessels pass through the Mary Hayagas toward Gibraltar while the Duke of Cumberland Yo wart sails from Virginia to Whitehaven. Liverpool hosts the Cafar Jenkins from Cape, Barbados sees the Aurora Gamon from Philadelphia, and the Barum Croker from Carolina off Lyme.
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Barthanes
South-Sea Company
Threadneedle- Street
Board of Admiralty
William Lloyd
Peter Warren
Europe
Spanish West Indies
Sir Edward Hawke
Dolphin
Stephens
Carolina
Antigua
Florida
Mary
Barbara
Pool
Cape Francois
Mefnard
St. Sebastian’s
Matthews
Plymouth
Beachy Head
Coventry
House of Commons
Robert Bird
County of
Northumberland
John Fenwick
Lord Offulften
Allgood
Leicester House
Prince of Wale
His Majesty’s Excise
John Lamball
Shoreditch-Church
Holywell-ischem
St. Agnes
Bar
Grosvenor-square
Earl of Marchmont
Miss Crompton
Crompton
Cheapside
St. Austin’s Church
Watling-street
Edward Ashworth
Sadler
Fleet-street
Plummer
St. Clement’s Church
Strand
Suesday
St. Mary Je Bone
Charles Repington
Churchill
Kingdom of Ireland
Stockbridge
Wigan
Lancashire
Spain
James Lord Viscount Buttevant
Earl of Barrymore
Lyme
Dorfethhire
Thomas Rofe
Wootton Fitzpain
Brecon
South Wales
Edward Morgan
Laft
York
Eleonora Bertie
Robert Duke of
Ancaster and
Kesteven
England
Roland Wynn
Gwedier
Jermyn-street
St. James’s
Elizabeth Spelman
County of Norfolk
Westminster Abbey
Lady Robinson
London
Robinson
John Robinson
Virginia
Hammersmith
Thomas Roberts
Earl of
Deal
Fan
Scarborough
Danverge
Essex
Jackson
East-India
Hayagas
Gibraltar
Whitehaven
Duke of Cumberland
Yowart
Liverpool
Cafar
Jenkins
Cape Are
Barbados
Aurora
Gamon
Philadelia
Barum
Croker
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St. George
Hanover Square
James Barwick
John Marcall
Bercout
Hick’s Hall
Linnen-Draper
St. Ann’s
Foonjy-uead
Newgate
Jop Hen
Tohnson
Musickeller
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