King of Prussia Returns and plans Potsdam departure
London Gazette reports King of Prussia returning from Stettin last Friday evening and setting out for Potsdam early Sunday morning. Warsaw dispatch notes Archbishop of Gnesna’s death on July 8 and Poland’s King naming M Comorowski to succeed him.
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Berlin
Prussia
Stettin
Potzdam
Dresden
Warsaw
Gnezna
States of Holland
Prince of Orange
Moscow Fire Damage Totals and Aix-la-Chapelle Declarations
Report notes vast Moscow fire damage on the 21st and 26th with monasteries churches and other buildings reduced to ashes while a calculation suggests less than a twentieth of Moscow suffered. It also covers a July 17 Aix-la-Chapelle declaration by plenipotentiaries pledging to restore conquests and arrange indemnities and commissions for restitution of prizes.
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Peterbourgh
Moscow
College of Polce
Aix-la-Chapelle
West Indies
East
West- Indies
East-Indies
Mediterranean
Ocean
Cape St. Vincent
Cape
St. Malo
States General of the
United Provinces
Aix-la-Chapelle Declaration Details 1748 Evacuation Terms
The document records a six week term from signatures at Aix-la-Chapelle and outlines ministers from France Britain and the United Provinces agreeing to ratify within a month. It notes a July 8 1748 date and a later exchange of letters discussing how armies should withdraw from the Low Countries, linking evacuation to actions in Italy.
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Aix-la-Chapelle
L.S. St. Severin
Arragon
Sandwich
L.S
G. A. Haffelaer
van Borffel
O. Z. van Haren
Marquis de Soto-Major
Count de St. Severin
Modena
Parma
Placentia
Guastalla
Austrian Netherlands
Italy
Sweden
Paris
Marquis de Brancas Cerest
Compiegne
Aix
Prince of Conde
Chantilly
Brussels
Empire
Moselle
Marshal Lowendahl
Bishopricks
Flanders
Plac
Bergen-op-Zoe
St. Louis
Bourt
Grew
Britain
Cape Bretonhall
Louisbourg
Boifledimy Fuly
Duke of Cumberland
Fumdhaven
Prince Quving
Hague
Aix la Chapelle
Courts of Justice
King in ill health prompts widespread prayers in capital
A letter from Helland notes the King remains greatly indisposed for three days. He consults ministers during relief, prayers rise across churches, and public devotion intensifies in the capital amid his distress. Bologna reports allied dispatches from Lombardy and Genoa, with Austrian prisoners and Italian evacuations among the current concerns.
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Bologna
Lombardy
Genoa
Don Philip
Parma
Placentia
Modenois
Nice
Fulyo
Admiral Byng
Villafranca
Marshal Belieffle
Marquis de la Mina
Prague
Prince Repnin
Vienna
Count de Harrach
Kingdom of
Bohemia
Berlin
Lusatia
Forsta
Paris
Great Britain
Mediterranean
Ocean
East Indies
Aix
Italy
Fem
Stockholm
Tragic shipwreck near Leith claims Gifford family
News from Edinburgh reports a deadly boating accident on May 14 near Bufta. John Gif ford younger of Bufta and three Gifford brothers, all related to Thomas Gifford, perish after their boat overturns while returning from a visit to Mr Gifford of Wethersta. A second mishap in Leith injures William Lauder, apprentice to Mr Home, adding to a day of tragedy.
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Cotland
Edinburgh
Bufta
Gifford
Wethersta
William Lauder
Mr. Home
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London Gazette
Foreign Affairs
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