Fire devastates Varadin. church and post office spared
The Varadin fire on May 20 consumed the Ex-Jesuits house and Nadatti's hotel, destroying over 600 homes by midnight before partial containment saved one seventh of the town. Citizens and clergy perished. A tobacco ember caused the blaze. Trade news from Marseilles hints at looming war as armaments rise at Toulon and Brest.
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France
Flanders
Trieste
Varadin
Esclavonia
St. Florentine
Nadatti
Marseilles
Fune
Toulon
Brest
America
Cuba
Jamaica
Brusels Gazette
Paris
Spain
Portugal
St. Domingo
Clermont
Gazette of
d’Artois
Versailles
Marly
Arrivals and Departures at British Ports Aboard Numerous Vessels
Weathered shipping lists note events on June 14 20 and June 20 detailing ships sailing into and out of Dover Plymouth Falmouth and Bristol including the Alfred Teage and India Pilot with arrivals from Grenada Riga Amsterdam Norway and Jamaica. Vessels named include the Hanoverian Hope Earl of Effingham and Britannia among others with crews listed and ports such as Oporto Cadiz and Senegal represented.
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W. S. Draf
Downs
Alfred
Teage
Hallifax
India
Boyce
Gaavesenn
Harrison
Norway
Newcy
Burrow
Stettin
Dover
Wabernally
MtLawrin
Grenada
Lancaster
Hope
Roper
Riga
Plymouth
Ebenezer
Holst
Parrenton
Amsterdam
Jacomina
Prouting
Content
Bagwell
Oporto
Falmouth
Fisher
Forrester
Honduras
Liberty
Andrews
Cadiz
Earl of Effingham
Curling
Jamaica
Ponte
Wheatthead
Pringle
Middleburgh
Bristols
Eagle
Salmon
Barbadoes
Bets
Beale
Liverpool
Britannia
Norris
St. Thomas's
Favourite
Benny
Camamaroons
Calvert
Sewell
Senegal
News from the Atlantic World and Quebec Siege Tides
Major Caldwell leaves for field command after reporting the Quebec siege. Royal visits to Carleton House and Windsor furniture orders. A Jamaica bound convoy and Parker’s fleet weather, plus ships seen near Antigua. St Kitts letter notes French frigates and a Bilander supplying ammunition for Americans. A Quebec fire destroys six houses with four deaths.
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Loo N Don
Caldwell
Quebec
Carleton House
Windsor
Duchess of
Ancaster
Ludgate
Jamaica
Peter Parker
America
England
Dublin
Antigua
Earl of Efingham
Curling
London
Plymouth
Capes
Virginia
Pitt
St. John’s
St. Kitt’s
George Collins
Mary
Nantucket
Loyal Nova-Scotia Volunteers form in Halifax amid troop news
Halifax reports arrival of Greyhound and Argo transports with units from Cork and Flanders, Captain Nordberg escaping Provincials, a donation ship from London arrives, and a new Loyal Nova-Scotia Volunteers regiment is being raised. Prices for meat and fowl are fixed by a special Court of Sessions as troops bolster the town.
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Argo
Enoch Markham
Nordberg
66Th
Fort. George
London
Nova-Scotia
Ger. Howé
England
Plymouth
America
Portsmouth
Hound
Daphne
Downs
Calvert
Newfoundland
Lendert
Mettys Schelvis
Stade
Brunswick
Court of Common
Court of Conain Pleas
Westminster-hall
Davy
Glynn
Holyday
Roberts
Taunton
Letter from General Evening Post criticizes Wilkes over election conduct
A dated Guildhall letter blasts John Wilkes for extravagance and profligacy, accuses him of dictating terms, bribery, and perjury in the Hindon and Shafthbury episodes, and defends Mr Hopkins and the Bank’s directors. It argues that the Chamberlain can be fairly elected and urges firm defense of liberty and morality in government.
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General Evening Post
John Wilkes
Guildhall
Gafar
Mr. Wilkes
Hopkins
Hindon
Shafthbury
Amanett
Michael Garfield
Filkes
City of London
Chamberlain
Alderman Wilkes
Quadhall
Wilkes
London Tavern
Shaftesbury
Thomas Summerfield
Borough High-street
Borough
Turner
William Bennett
Wood- Street
John ‘Thomas
Friday-street
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Greyhound
Dickson
Corke
Rose
Wallace
Norfolk
de Ae
Fustice Blacktone
Bucks
Buckingham
Bedfordshire
Bedford
Huntingdonshire
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
Cambridge
Suffolk
Bury St. Edmond’s
Nonwich
Pimlico
Brompton-row
John Fielding
Piccadilly
B—‘Janes
Middlesax
Kent
Thomas
William Huette
Rotherhithe
Wandsworth
Taylor
Smallpox Hospital
Bell-Savage-yard
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
Norwwood
Deptford
Fazakerley
Lower Grosvenor-street
Lutwyche
Thomas Lutwyche
Shropshire
Daly
Southwark
St. Mary's
Scilly
JSHP
William Rhode
Bownd
Bourdeaux
Hamburgh
Richard Carne
Joners-Hall
Thames-Street
Joners
Benjamin Hopkins
Elys
Irisir Hall
Vintners Hall
Vintners Company
Associated Livery of
Mitre
Fleetstreet
Farringdon
Chamberlain of
Sheriffs of
Guildha Il
Sheffield
John Hill
John Hi
Elizabeth Rivington
Glatecutter
Jon Hill
Judice
Hall
Shrewsbury
Shitman
Welverhamton
Walsall
Birmingham
Lewis Utvaua
Willian Hawke
Teste Eee
Daniel Gurgefield
John Minghiner
Wiliam Cester
Diwan Delalener
Mil Tlic
Walliam Warn Gardner
Jot Piper
Thomas Detehe
Walker
Thomas Tawes
rJohn Ricarc
Brentford
Cumnbrook
Maidenhead
Oxford
Taain
Qlitton
Shipstern
Stratford
Walash
Wolverhampton
Shfifnall
Hagate
Shewsbury
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