Foreign Affairs Extra from Rotterdam on treaty timelines
An Atlantic era letter from a foreign minister fragment discusses possible September signings, commutations, and Vienna barrier arrangements. It weighs Dutch restitution desires, separate commissaries, and divergent aims among Maritime Powers and France. Rotterdam dispatch notes rising prices, taxes, and farmer suppression driving unrest, with informers paid a gilded wage and cities like Haarlem and Rotterdam playing cautious roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotterdam
Harlem
Courant
Breda
Empress Demands Extradition Over Col. de la Salle
A mail from Holland reports the Empress will not cede punishment of Col. de la Salle to France. She demands extradition and delivery of papers found on him, arguing his French birth does not waive her right to punish him for desertion in Russian service. Dantzick notes fortifications doubled to prevent escape.
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M -Pezold
Poland
Elector of
Saxony
France
Col. de la Salle
Count de la Salle
Dantzick
Russia
Pezold
Fort Weichselmunde
Warsaw
Olmutz
Holitschau
Vienna
Charles of Lorrain
Charlotta
Moravia
Hanovers-Fancry
Bohemia
Empire
Berlin
Flanders
Aix la Chapelle
M. Soto Mayor
Don Philip
Chevalier de Chauvelin
Brest
St. Domingo
Martinico
Brussels
Marshal Lowendahl
Namur
Marshal Saxe
M. Senac
Duke of Newcastle
Count Bentine
Distemper and Weather Woes Reported Across Yorkshire
York dispatch notes cattle losses from a distemper in parts of the East Riding and Holderness while Skipton hosts confirmations of landowners. Sir William St Quintin offers promised encouragement to tenants losing cattle. A severe lightning thunderstorm Sunday night caused fatalities and injuries, including a man struck dead at Ferrybridge and a rider in the East Riding.
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York
Skipton
Howdenshire
Holm-Bacon
Holderness
Sau
William St Quintins
du Ermser
Ferrybridge
East
Ships Arrive at Glasgow and Leghorn Ports From Atlantic Winds
Deal on June 23 notes several His Majesty's Ships Greyhound and Experiment plus Friendship, Laribr, from Lisbon. Vessels including St. Andrew from Marshants and Archibald from Virginia reach Glasgow. Berwick Thrale arrives at Lehory ne Three Brothers from Carisz Shields. Hudson from Virginia at Whitehaven. Anson from Antigua at Liverpool. James from Leeward Islands at Newcastle. Charming Molly Tatlock and Betty Forster from Liverpool at Tortola. Seaflower from London at Liverpool. Rebecca Orthroy St Annelle Romano Nancy Stone Allen from Carolina at Leghorn.
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Deal
Greyhound
Experiment
Farrel
Leeward
Newcastle
Molly
Tatlock
Betty
Forster
Leverpool
Tortola
Seaflower
Curry
London
Rebecca
Orthroy
St. Annelle
Romano
Nancy
Stone
Allen
Carolina
Leghorn
War prizes and appointments reported from Admiralty news
An Express at the Admiralty Office notes a Man of War and a Sloop capturing eleven French ships from Martinico near Newfoundland, deemed good prizes. Also a British bomb ship seizes a French vessel from Canada and sails to Cape Breton. Archibald and Gray arrive at Glasgow with Virginia fleet actions. a hearing is set for a Marquis d Antin capture. Royal titles granted to Arthur Powis. officials Gill and Hebert appointed comptrollers of the Customs at Porto Chester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiralty Office
Sir Edward Hawke
Martinico
France
Newfoundland
West India
Canada
Cape Breton
Malaga
Gibraltar
Archibald
Crawford
Virginia
Glasgow
Gray
Capes
Privy Council
Montgomery
William’ Gill
Folliot Hebert
Porto Chester
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Flague
Paris
M. de St. Severin
Holland
Petersoburgh
Hague
Cumberland
Wet
Friesland
Highnes
Italy
Europe
Lon Adon
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