Rebellion News Across Europe and Dispatches
Saturday March 12 reports a rebel in Petersburgh beheaded for participation. Gen Bibikow requests immediate reinforcements from Finland and Poland as Tartars join the revolters. Utrecht notes March 6 letters saying Warsaw Vienna Berlin and Hamburgh stations are cut by floods.
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Saterday
Holland
Warsaw
Fis
Petersburgh
Bibikow
Finland
Livonia
Poland
Cafan
Utrecht
Vienna
Berlin
Ship Arrivals and Winds At The Downs
Wind blows hard and no ship in the Downs. Arrivals list includes Tom Kennedy from Antigua at Liverpool and Schner Ficheler from London at Amsterdam. Other vessels arrive at Dublin Dunkirk Bremen and Amsterdam from various origins with names such as Nancy Murphy De Boer and Old Friendship from London.
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Dear
Manon
Downs
Ee Gaavesens
Marcia
Sheldrick
Gstend
Petfencia Johanna
Groot
Amsterdam
Arivals
Liverpool
Tom
Kennedy
Antigua
Schner Ficheler
de Boer
London
Dublin
Nancy
Murphy
Bourdeaux Hawke
Bunker
Delight
Fisher
Grenades
Hm the River
Mary-Ann
Anderson
Martha
Hunter
Fith
Princer of Wales
Dixon
Rotterdam
Georgia Packet
Dunkirk
Bremen
Christian, Sager
Barbadoes
Britannia
Clark
Old Friendship
Olfers
Invasion Rumors Spread Across Europe And Royal Scandals
Letters describe troops marching toward Transylvania and a French army assembling near the Rhine. Portents of economic measures and court actions fill a busy page: Denmark prizes velvet imitation, weather and floods cause damage, prizes in an Adelphi Lottery emerge, and a habeas corpus case reaches the Fleet Prison. A sermon laments noble delay in hearing the poor and urges accountability at home.
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Vienna
Moravia
Bohemia
Auustria
Transylvania
Rhine
Manchester
Admiralty Office
Portfsmouth
House of Commons
Mansion House
Frederick Lord North
Somerset
Earl of Thomond
Jutice de Grey
Baron Perrot
Afton
Justice Athusst
Alderman Plumbe
Fleet
Yorkshire
Somersetshire
Gloucestershire
Eastcheap
End of the timber trap and purse theft in London
A fragment from a late 18th or early 19th century newspaper recounts a brutal accident at the Old Sessions House in the Old Bailey where a wall collapse buried two laborers and injured three others. It also notes a purse snatching near the Adelphi Lottery, a presentation of a living to Rev William Clough, and several deaths including Sir William Browne and Mrs Bayly. The piece closes with Stratford in Essex flooded and a Devon man Edward Collins passing.
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Old Bailey
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
Poultry Compter
William Clough
Tottington
Norwich
Queen{quare
William Browne
Mr. Harris
Richard
Father Declares Conversion Amid Ice Death Scene
A dramatic scene unfolds as a priest proclaims absolution and guides a convert to be launched beneath the ice. The Father declares Heaven awaits new converts, promising swift blessing as the soul departs in a moment of icy martyrdom.
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Mordecai
Christ
Holy Church
Saint Peter
Lindsey’s Proposal for a Reformed English Church
A 17th century tract titled Lindsey’s Proposal for a Reformed English Church critiques the Rev style planning after Samuel Clarke. Printed for J Wilkie in St Paul’s Church Yard.
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Lindsey
Samuel Clarke
J. Wilkie
St. Paul's Churchyard
The Rites and Ceremonies of the Greek Church in Russia
An early volume printed on royal paper with copper plate engravings. It details the Greek Church doctrine worship and discipline in Russia. Authored by John Glen King D D Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies and chaplain to the British factory at St Petersburg. Published by W Owen Fleet Street.
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Russia
John Glen King
Royal and Antiquarian Societies
St. Petersbeurg
W. Owen
Fleet-street
Avaaerical Family
Hon
F. Willoughby
J. Payne
J. Wilkie
St. Paul’s Church
Europe
Englangl
Thomas Warton
Trinity College, Oxford
Society of Antiquaries
J. Dodsley
Pallmail
J. Walter
Charing-cross
T. Becket
Strand
J. Robson
New Bond-street
G. Robinson
J. Bew
Paternofterrow
Meff. Fletcher
Oxford
Quarte
Peparng
Kings Authority
J. Croke
Most
Great Britain and Ireland
Popery
Lord
Jesus Christ
John Fleetwood
England
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Latimer
Sir Richard’ Hotham
Homer’s Head
Brotherton and Seweill
Cornhill
Hannah Moore
T, Cadell
Carnan
Newbery
St.Paul’s
Biffols
Frederick and Bull
Bath
Britain
Island
John: Campbell
Ll.d
Queen Fquare
Bloomsbury
Richardson
Urquhart
Royal Exchange
St. Paul's Church-yard
T. Cadell
P. Elmsly
The
T. Durham
Pall-mail
L. Davis
Holborn
Dr. Gregory
Edinburgh
W. Strahan
W. Creech
Marquis Beccaria
Milan
Mont. de Voltaire
Jorge Blackstone
St. Paul’s Churchyard
Wale
Taylor
Gentleman and Lady
Snage
Paternofter-row
Hedson and Johnson
Salisbury
R. Cruttwell
Baths
Horn
Englysh
E. Je
Wwe
Hnfon
LANG
ATP
Avemary-lane
Princers
Brunswick
Birmingham
Ion
Dr. Fli Af Criphyt
Rennoldson
Tolu
T. Greenougt
King’s Arms and Pestle
Ludgatt- Bi Lanon
Zich
W. Bayley
Cockspur' Street
Haymarket
Rothe
iver-Cat
Bond-street
M. Purdie
Losanges
Ozenges
T. Greenough
Ludgate
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