Naples and European Diplomatic Movements 1740s
News fragment reports on Naples February 27 with Maltese ship incidents and French ambassador arrival for pay cases, Rome March 2 reference to Corfini, late Cardinal Girolami, and an Empress-Tuscany commerce incentive. May 6 Florence notes French actions at Massa Citadel halted, garrison changes, deserters seeking refuge in Lucca Pisa. Policy shifts urge restitution in Europe, with Imperial mediation opposing Austria’s succession threats and urging forceful restitution against France in the Low Countries and Italy, amid Aix-la-Chapelle talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Toulon
Rome
Co. Corfini
Sicily
Girolami
Peroni
Tuscany
Florence
Maffa
Hussars
Lavenza
Pietra Santa
Lucca
Pisa
Great-Britain
Channel
Flanders
Aix la Chapelle
France
Italy
Low Countries
Rhine
Silesia
Kmn
Prussia
Foreign Affairs Extract From Paris on War and Trade
An extract from letters dated March 28 discusses Dutch prisoners of war, potential exchange plans, and proposed use of POWs in Italy or the kingdom. It outlines Marshal Saxe’s campaigns against Maestricht Namur and Charleroy, and potential sieges of Breda and Luxembourg. It notes Ostend and Austrian Flanders exchanges to deter Dutch commerce. It also reports Scottish oddities of rivers Teviot Kirtle and Elke drying up with unexplained causes, observed February.
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Paris
Hague
Italy
Versailles
War- Office
Saxe
Maestrichty
Namur
Charleroy
Marsha
Lowendal
Zealand
Breda
Maesticht
Saxé
Luxembourg
Maestricht
Cape’ Breton
Dunkirk
Ostend
Austrian Flanders
Court of the
Scotland
York
Teviot
Langtown
Phaenomenon
William Maxwell
England
Maritime Trade and Arrivals at Haverfordwest and Orkneys
Shipping notices list several ships bound for Ireland Jamaica Maryland Virginia Lifton and Lifton with names Grindall Neptune Amity's Goodwill Sittey Antey Dove and others. arrivals include Monmouth from New York Friendship Bruce from Boston and Thomas from Newfound. The fragment notes winds came down the Aurora Teague and privateer sloop remains noted.
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Deal
S. E
Aurora
Teague
Ireland
Jamaica
Neptune
Grindall
Amity
Goodwill
Smith
Maryland
Boyd
Campbell
Antey
Hill
Dove
Naplinton
Sittey
Robinson
Virginia
Boulter
Allen
Lifton
Haverfordwest
Monmouth
Mann
New-York
Orkneys
Bruce
Boston
Botton
Thomas
Leigh
Newfoundand
Sivord and Military Belt Order Discussed in Sweden
The Letters from Hathburgh hint at a revived ancient order the Sivord and Military Belt, a symbolic collar of swords and belts. Political use by Count Teffin is suspected to reward and unite his younger party, while foreign actions show French troops moving from Alsace to the Low Countries. Royal and naval appointments and dispatches unfold in England with seaborne prizes and privateers, amid chatter of navy court martial reforms and local incidents including a Wiltshire fire.
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Hathburgh
Sweden
Amaranta
Stockholm
Count Teffin
Alsace
Low Countries
Versailles
Earl of Athcram
Harwich
Flanders
Lynch
Earl of Hallifax
Harris
St. Stephens’s
Nottingham
Litchfield
Darnwell
John Austin
Lord Oliphant
Grafton Regis
Northampton
Peterborough
Alderton
Gravesend
Sheerness
Kent
Lords of the Admiralty
Douglas
Berwick
Stanhope
Fougeux
Peter Warren
Wells and Company
East-India Company
Doddington
Benjamin Mason
Margate
Plymouth
Princess of Orange
Downs
London
la Vera.Cruz
Jamaica
Carolina
Gulf
New- England
Betsey
Hoare
North Carolina
Leas? Don
St. Malo’s
Wingstone
Fowler
Boston
Cape Francoise
New-York
Nostra Seniora Domonte
St. Josephy
Antonio de Almeida
Dublin
Viana
Camarinas
Galicia
Paci Carte
Beary
Portsmouth
Cherburg
Cows
Ward
Calne-in
Wiltshire
Tay
Bayer
Thrawsworth
Baen
Thravdwoeth
Més’s Ark
Berner
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