Palatine Troops seize Bilfen. Liegoise march on St Trond
On May 23 and in early June reports describe Palatine troops occupying Bilzen near Liege with 130 Patriots and no artillery. Liegeois seize St Trond, finding arms, while 8000 Patriots assemble near Tongres and display a banner akin to Mahomed’s standard. 3000 more surround Vieux-Jones Castle with 400 Palatine soldiers and threaten surrender or massacre. Regency sends a deputation to the Elector Palatine seeking moderation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bilfen
Plate
Liege
Liegoise
St. Trond
Tongres
Marshal Saxe
St. Lambert
Mahomed
Vieux Jones
Teutonic Order
Infant mauled by pig in Lincolnshire house
An inquisition at Croyland before Francis Holland Coroner records infant Sarah Croxford, nine months, died hours after a pig nine weeks old entered the home and tore and wounded the child on the face and arms after being left by the mother on a bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Croyland
Francis’ Holland
Market Deeping
Proclamation and colonial opening events unfold in Jamaica
The piece recalls royal proclamations urging cockade wear and the Hanover bloodline as well as Jamaica’s governor Effingham's March meeting with the Council and Assembly. It notes salary bills, the statue of Lord Rodney, and redevelopment plans in St. Jago de la Vega, plus ship Bird’s perilous voyage from Glasgow and a Tower Hamlets court ceremony. The narrative also touches on Thomas Warton and Oxford executions observed by his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilatridus
Hanover
Barrie Bhekach
Effingham
Jamaica
Eland
General Assembly
Lord Rodney
St. Jago de la Vega
Montego-Bay
Port Maria
Bird
Wylie
Glasgow
Court of Requests For
Tower Hamlets
Osborn-street
Whitechapel
George I
Warton
Remarkable Wartons Recruiting and Naval Dispatches
Fragment from a Gosport letter recounts Warton's curious method of uncovering a secret society by following recruiting drums near public houses. It notes ships the Arrogant of 74 guns and Gorgon, the victories at Spithead, and Admiral Barrington raising his flag on Barfleur g6. Also describes sixteen new mail coaches for a birthday procession through London. Died notices include W Church of East Acton and Jonathan Hooper of Yeovil, with other obituaries from Bath Drogheda and Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gosport
Gorgon
la Nymphe
Spithead
Barrington
Barfleur
Roddam
Royal William
Millbank
Parliament-street
Pall-mall
St. James’s-treet
Piccadilly
Hay-market
Strand
East Acton
W. Church
Thaurfdaye
Bath
Jonathan Hooper
Yeovil
Coventry
Hall
Drogheda
Ireland
W. Meade Ogle
Thomas *Kirby
Chapel-house
Oxfordshire
Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin
William Haden
Worcester
Benevolent Dical Society Meeting at Black-Boy Inn Chumford
General Meese of the Benevolent Me but tent for the Contig of Essex and Herts will be held at the Black-Boy Inn Chumford on Monday next when the bas and Regularions for the future Government of the Society will be read. The Committee appointed for that purpose on the day of April at will seeder de dotaination of the Subscribers and Benefactors present who are requested to meet at eleven oclock in the forenoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DICAL
Meese
Contig
Essex
Herts
Hoflen
Chumiford
Seeder
Ouse
Une
United Company of Merchants of
England
East Indies
Co Opper
Bruce
Literary Review
English Review
Ageon
Nile
Smelwal
Nicholson
Great Britain
Europe
J. Murray
Fleet- Street
J. Sibbald
Edinburgh
Nymphs and Health in Britain’s Rivers and Hills
Romantic observations praise Matlock Malvern Buxton and Avon Severn Chelt and the healing powers of waters. The poem links Pomona and Thetis to health and long life, invoking Bladud and Portland’s rocks as sources of vigor for Britain’s people and empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Daywent
Neptune
Avon
Fraus
Akton
Cambrian Hills
Badon
Bladud
Malvern
Mount
Portland
Drawing Room at St James's Celebrates the King's Birthday
Yesterday on the king's birth day a grand drawing room at St James's assembled Their Majesties with the Prince of Wales and numerous dukes nobility ambassadors and foreign envoys in attendance. The list of attendees includes the Dukes of York Gloucester and Cumberland several princesses and many ladies of title as well as high officers of state and bishops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Countesé le Luzerne
Baron Robeque
Monsieur Calonne
Canterbury
York
King’s Beath
Common Pleas
Lynsdon
London
Salisbury
Winchester
Bristol
Lichfield
Oxford
Peterborough
Worcester
Chester
Lincoln
Elphin
Ancaster
Leeds
Richemond
Marlborough
Hamilton
Thumberland
Stafford
Townshend
Bath
Harcourt
Bembroke
Holnerness
Elgin
Clarendon
Essex
Denbigh
Shafsiarg
Scathekon Bieilbe
Gnyrle
Paulet
Ee Aldborough
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Foreign Intelligence
Eiece
Country-News
L.on
D.on
Northampton
Michaelmas
Athé
Arundel Street
Markham
Princes-Risborough
Councy
Bucks
Risborough
West Wycombe
Aylesbury
Cross-Keys
Rifsorough
G.G
Jean d J Robinsen
Marit
Mathc
Parijs
Price
J. G. Tibery
Kate
H. S.H. the _ Egetor
Saxony
Edwin Hewgils
Coldstream
J. Walter
Homer’s-Head
Charing
Geman
Avas
Job. Orton
Robert Gensleman
Shrewsbury
J. and
W. Eddowes
Ty. Longimas
A Billys
Johnson
Buckland
A. Clarence
Archdeacon Travis
R. Porson
J. Ege
Whitehall
Merrill
Cambridge
Prince and Cooke
Picc As
Bligh
Bounty
Otanelle
Tofoa
Timor
Lenton
D. Symonds
Paternofterrow
E. Bently
Fetter Lane
Three 'S Times
Prince of Wales
Duke of York
Dayes
Angus
Scotland
W. Owen
Temple Bar
L. Davis
Hol
J. Debretty
J. J. Powell
Middle-Temple
J. Johnson
St. Paul
Church-yard
T. Whieldon
Fleet-street
Wood
Meriam
Vicessimus Knox
Tonbridge School
Ste. John's College, Oxford
C. Dilly
Joseph I
Dalton
Wetherlands
Ang Ie
Aus Bru
G. Gh
J. Robinsor
Paternofters
Fesne
Buxton
Martin
Marge
Chelder
Sabrina
Cheltenham
Severn
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