Rebels suffer heavy losses amid advancing detachments
February 15 dispatch from Petersburg reports mixed success for Russian forces including a detachment of 6066 LeBour and a retaken Samara. Rebels blamed, Empress offers large rewards for delivering Puagat reliefs dead or alive, while Bibikow’s troops claim progress. Zoblitz in the amines circle nearly destroyed by February 24 fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westerday
Samara
Bibikow
Leipfic
Zoblitz
Earth Sinks and Landslides Reported Across English Countryside
Heavy rains trigger ground subsidence near Oxford and Reading with yards of earth sliding into valleys. Reports describe acreplots sinking several feet and hillsides shifting, alarming residents in Hockley Petersfield and surrounding areas as terrain continues to move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
London Road
Shotover-hill
Reading
Hockley
Petersfield
Hants
Mercury
Coutrbary
Maidstone
Jonas Mount
John Ellen
Newington
Sittinghoam
James Fenh
James Welham
James Steggel
Oiley
Suffolk
Robert Balls i Ocoberlaf
Eyiral
Port arrivals and ship movements noted in harbor lists
The page records numerous ships arriving at ports including Portsmouth Waterford Albany and Dublin with origins from Rotterdam Ostend Bristol Liverpool London and Plymouth. Vessels listed include James and Mary Young Jacoby Richard Sabeans and others. Also notes Southampton style entries with crews and captains and ships passing the Three Sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S&s
Dear
Magen
Sailer
Bolt
Beljay Jones
Philadelphia
Miakell
Gupe
Earl
Ashtburnham
Anfon Eastindiamens
India
Elliot
Squires
James and Mary
Clements
Rotterdam
Jacoby Read
Dorkin
Dows
Youn
Richard
Sabeans
Frederick
Scters
Frommroningen
Experience
Ducafta
Ostend
King George
Woolam
Burgh
Frendrickson
Harms
Harling
Bent
Wood
Dunkirk
Hope
Hanson
Norway
Jaccav Entw
Maucu
Henderson
Embden
Joanna
Johnson
Delfth
Campbell
Ham‘Burgh
Avece
Renzarite
Myacinth
Phillip
Bourdéaux
Garke
Henrietta Packet
Baltable
Britol
Waterford
Liverpool
Pranck
Bristol
Cornefius
Cotter
Albany
Unity
Horwool
Portsmouth
Olding
Plymouth
Lumley
London
Dublin
Lucy
Lucretia
Walker
Venice
Neddy
Nelly
Rymer
Rebels Rise in Russia Led by Pugachev
Reports from Hamburg note damp royal apartments at Kew were scrubbed due to rains and Thames floods. Letters from Moscow trace the life of Yemelyan Pugachev, detailing his exile, campaigns, and the spread of his rebellion through disguises, titles, and military orders across his growing force.
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Oondon
Kew
Thames
Hamburg
Russia
Pugatteheff
Moscow
Sieur Rafoumowski
Elizabeth
Petersburgh
Berlin
Qufla
Fragmented 18th Century Notices and Tragic Local Incidents
A jumble of items from a historic page reports Berlin troop movements toward Dantzic and a Polish port dispute, plus British social misfortunes. It notes mass detachments led by Lieutenant Major Schwerin, odd public disturbances in Barton upon Irwell, a hackney coach suicide in Bishopsgate Street, a widow’s self harm in Oxford Street, and a 100-year-old man’s death at Blackheath. Also cited are Bedford assizes death sentences and royal promotions involving St Mabyn and St Michael Penkevil, with births and marriages including Miss Chetwynd, and long-forgotten regional notices.
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Hisnield
Kelhr
Berlin
Schwerin
Dantzic
Barton Upon ‘Trent
Staffordshire
Bithopsgate-street
Tottenham-court Road
Holthorp
Lambeth
Oxford
Charles Hayman
William
Blackheath
Bedford
Assizes
William Freeman
James Kitchener
Thomas Abrahams
John Foulkes
Nicholas Boscawen
Corpus Christi, College, Cambridge
Viscount Falmouth
St. Mabyn
Cornwall
Exeter
St. Michael ‘Penkevil
Joseph Moore
Scotland-yard
Marybone Church
Wollaston
John Parton
Parndon
Essex
Chetwynd
Chet
Banham
Noralk
Per Arin
Ae Stratford
James Robinson
Public meeting on drainage reforms at St Alban’s Tavern
Notice for a Saturday 16 o’clock gathering at St Alban’s Tavern St Alban’s Street Logdon to discuss refits and better draining of the country. Also advertisement for Lutarch’s Lives translated by Langhornes and a new Macaulay History edition sale by E and C Dilly and J Walter with prices listed.
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Efates
Bulingbroke
East-Holland
Powis
Waindéers Havens
St. Alban’s
St. Alban's
Logdon
Lutarch
Flutarch
John Langhorne
D.D
William Langhorne
C. Dilly
Walter
Charingae
Macaulay
England
Dalbys Carminative praised by mother for infant fits
A testimonial from ELIZ. WILLIAMS of Marybone to Dalbys Carminative recounts a week old infant's convulsions and rapid relief after two doses. The owner supplier details list Welbeck Street origin and London retailers offering 6d per bottle sales to wholesale and retail customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Dalby
Dalby
Che
Eliz, Williams
No. 8
Bulstrode-street
Marybone
J. Daiby
Apothecary
Welbeck Street
F. Newbery, Junior
St. Paul’s Church-yard
London
The History of the Human Heart by Mr. Brooke E
An old literary notice announces The History of the Human Heart by Mr. Brooke E, printed for G Robinson in Nov 2e, with other works from the same author such as Reclamarion, a Poem. The fragment hints at a pirated or faded eighteenth century publication in a London bookshop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Marryat
J. 5. Dodd
Corporation of Surgeons
London
His Majesty’s Royal Navy
G. Kearfly
Ficet-street
G. Robinson
Paternotter
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Neve
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Bedfields
Cambridge
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Rutland
Leicester
Nottingham
Stafford
Salop
Hereford
Worcester
Warwick
Gloucester
Berks
Bucks
Norfolk
Lincoln
York
Durham
Northumberland
Cumberland
Westmorland
Lancashire
Chesthire
Monmouth
Somerset
Devon
Dorset
Hampshire
Sussex
Kent
North Wales
South Wales
Scotland
William Cooke
Avere
T. CA Dell
Strand
Phuc
Pompadour
Depuis
James Elphinston
Robert
James Adam
Adelphi
Great Britain
Ireland
Lord Mansfield
Kenwood
Middlesex
T.becket
Sucand
Italy
G. L. Chrisseau
D. Cunego
Jeave
William Bayley
Cockspur-street
John Price
Leydenhall-treet
Cit Corper
St Paul’s Churchyard
J. Grosvenor
Surnitile
Holborn
A. Rothwell
New- Bond Geeet
Henry
Thomas Leland
Trinity College
J. Nourfé
Bockfeller
F. Longman
Paternottes
J. Johnson
St Pauls Chuscheyard
Theatre Royal
Druryarid
Becket
Newmarket
G.colman
Sethona
Edward Mum "Earl ‘of
Clarendon
T. Cadell
P. Elmsley
D. Prince
T Oxford
Lord Clarendon
George Chapman
School of
Monthly Review
Wale
Rennold Son
Clows
Gray
Thorowgood
Ottra
Carlon
Rennoldson
Sancho Panza
Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Charles Henry Wilmot
J. Cooke
Shakespeare’s Head
Great-Britain
Cane
Faour
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