London Gazette reports Dutch resistance to revenue plan in Amsterdam
In St Hague on July 19 the Difficulties in executing a plan to correct provincial revenue through farm suppression persist. Amsterdam opposes the levy method and the potential distraints on towns and magistrates for unpaid quotas. Dorland and The Hague note vacancies in post offices. deputies are to issue orders. A resolution empowers burgher masters and magistrates where posts are vacant to run offices provisionally. The States fix September first as the meeting to receive ligatures from deputies on town employments.
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St Hague
Amsterdam
Dorland
Hague
Foreign Affairs Dispatches From Paris on Prussia Russia Talks
An Extra of a Letter from Paris dated July 9 reports Versailles receiving Berlin dispatches. Prussian objections rise over Russian troop moves and interim peace terms. Paris Aix chatter hints wintering troops, potential shifts in alliances, and private conferences among Caunitz St Severin Sandwich and Doria. Possible four point settlement questions loom amid expected congress.
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Paris
Versailles
Berlin
Aix
Count de Caunitz
Duke de St. Severin
Earl of Sandwich
Marquis Doria
Spain
Antwerp
Silesia
Prusia
Doria
Republick of
Genoa
Storm harms house as chimney falls and beds burn
From Jedburgh reports a great storm caused a chimney head to fall, and bed hangings burned to ashes, creating a small hole in the floor that reached a lower room and shattered glass. Children were present but unharmed. In Aberdeen, James Davidson was hanged for robbery and displayed in chains between the city and Dee Bridge. Alexander Cheyney, sentenced to be hanged there, is reprieved to September 8.
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Cotland
Edinburgh
Jedburgh
London
Earl of Morton
Aberdeen
James Davidson
Bridge of Dee
Alexander Cheyney
Richardson Named Professor of Oriental Languages at Cambridge
From Cambridge we learn Mr. Richardson M A of St John s College is unanimously erected Professor of Oriental Languages. Distemper among horned cattle rages at Lingham in Libberston. Justices at Havingham ordered no cattle to Topchiff Fair till next Quarter Sessions. Lightning fatal near Kirkbantin. two boys and a girl injured. Whirlwind lifts hay at Fenham. Matthew Forster D D of Gloucester dies at Berwick. Oxford grants honorary MA to Sir John Shaw and Robert Harley, second son of the Earl of Oxford.
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Newcastle
Cambridge
Richardson
St. John’s College
Lingham
Libberston
York
Havingham
Topchiff Fair
Kirkbantin
Carlisle
Fenham
S.E
N. E
St. Nicholas’s
Berwick
Matthew Forster
Gloucester
University of Oxford
John Shaw
Robert Harley
the Earl of Oxford
Shipping News From July 12 and Arrivals
Ships sail for the West Indies and Philadelphia. The Badger Sloop of War and coasters depart, while Charming Judith, Tate, John and Diana, Watson, and others dock in Gravesend or Yarmouth Roads. Arrivals include Hawke Privateer, Kingston, Lucy, Thanet, and Anne from St. Kitts, Riga, Liverpool, and Narva.
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Deal
Fuly
Badger
Charming Judith
Tate
John
Diana
Watson
Holland
Philadelphia
Rose
Greyhound
Fortune
Gravesend
Neptune
Prescott
Swallow
Mockett
Narva
Jane
Marr
Riga
Hawk
Brotherton
Rumored Alliance With Russia Reduces War Fears
Letters from Warsaw claim a new alliance between the Republic and Russia. If the Empress is attacked, the Republic would supply forty thousand men, and the Empress would send sixty thousand auxiliaries to aid in protecting Tranquility. The expected army augmentation may pass the ensuing Diet with ease.
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Warsaw
Russia
Republick
Epublick
Crown
States of Austria Threaten Compelled Methods and Coiners in Rome
From Vienna July 6 reports warn Austria may be forced to adopt new methods by military execution if proposals fail. A prelate argues the regulation burdens the people and recalls historic resistances from Leopold era. Rome uncovers a ring of coiners, with pistoles seized and plans tied to Naples and other realms. Amsterdam letters note Vienna remittances, Saxon troop readiness, and a rising hope for peace at Aix la Chapelle amid Madrid alliances. Tax reforms and post office revenues are hinted as potential gains for the republic, while two Amsterdam executions show justice against thieves rather than rioters.
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Vienna
Austria
Leopold
Silesia
Rome
Naples
Amsterdam
Dresden
Warsaw
Hamburgh
Aix la Chapelle
Versailles
Friends of Peace
Madrid
Hague
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