Missing Bank Notes Reward Notice for Benjamin Gough
A public notice from July 1748 offers fifty guineas for capture of Benjamin Gough a messenger of the Admiralty who escaped with eight bank notes payable to John Barber and others and a note to John Martins Company plus a notable basic note. Description lists height around five feet nine, age about forty, brown coat with velvet cape scarlet waistcoat breeches and a dark bob wig. Reward to be paid by Messrs Martin Surman and Company bankers at the Grap hopper in Lombard Street. Fiies .
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Stuly
Benjamin Gou
Admiralty
John Barber
John Martins
Bentjamin Gough
Martin Surman
Grafhopper
Lombard-Street
Gough
Empress Ruffia Fleet News and Baltic Drills Report
Supplemental dispatch from Florend and Stockhalm notes the Empress Ruffia's squadron failing from Cronttradt and joining Revel, with the Imperial Fleet to cruise the Baltic for months to train seamen. Berlin reports 30 to 40 thousand troops marching into Silesia and Prussia widening troop numbers. Paris notes stalled hostilities and potential ministry changes. News from Warsaw, Vilna, and Aix la Chapelle covers fires, ravages, and peace preliminaries.
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Florend
Stockhalm
Finland
Empress of Ruffia
Cronttradt
Revel
Baltick
Dreslen
Ponig
Warsaw
Vilna
Lithuania
D. Hamburgh
Berlin
Silesia
Prushian
Ruan Minster
Count de la Salle
Hensver
Prince William of Rictie
Caffel
Paris
Stockholm
de St. Severin
Moselle
Italy
Flanders
France
England
Switzerland
Fribourg
Cantons
America
St. Pete
Trinity
Martinico
Rochee
Aix-la-Chapelle
Opening of formal conferences anticipated August first
The report notes the Minities assisting and claims the difficulties hindering the opening of formal conferences have been removed. It predicts that the conferences will commence on August first as Siruges records July 18. An English trumpet arrived July 14 at Tervuren with dispatches for Marshal Saxe from the Duke of Cumberland.
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Leinus
Jane Knapton
Ludgate-stret
Vian
Itdinas
Siruges
Tervuren
Marshal Saxe
Duke of Cumberland
Paris
Murthel Saxe
Compiegne
Luxembourg
Majury
Sweden
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Igsor
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St. James’s
Hay-Marke
Westminster
Bond -Treet
Norfik
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J. Roberts
Warwick- Lane
Cicero
J. Robinson
Golden Lion
Ludgate Street
Sci
Fufs
D. Durand
la Savoye
Francois
Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
Enfans de France
Cepuis Archetque de
Cambrai
Nouvelle Edition
Revue & Corr
Fuin
J. Watts
Creein
Wild-Court
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields
B. Dod
Ave-Mary-Lane
Stationers Hall
Andel
Alexander Balus
Joshua
I Haffe
Dido
Semiramis
J. Wath
Catherine Flred
Strand
Subam
Mr. Hardel
Jothan
Judas Maccabeus
Flander
Geminiani
Berozzi
Haffe
St .Martini
Milan
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Vinci
Handel
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Taite
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Diana
Watson
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Bear-Key
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