Fire devastates Oberstein bach and church
Foreign intelligence reports a fire on May 3 in Oberstein bach destroying 144 buildings including 44 dwellings and the church. Corsica notes priests to be transported to Rome for penance. Liege dispatches wars news with Prussian troops and plans to advance toward Liege, Aachen, and Stavelot as key players mobilize.
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Obersteinbach
Corsica
National Assembly
France
Rome
Liege
Westphalia
Vienna
Principality of Liege
Wurtemburgh
Wurtzburgh
Munster
Aix la Chapelle
Palatinate
Winckehausen
Berg and
Juliers
Cologne
Stavelot
Franchimont
London Levee and Royal Moves Amid War News
London reports a full St James's Levee and two Houses of Parliament presenting addresses to the King. The King plans to review light dragoons and may attend the House of Lords after returning from Windsor. Overseas, naval strength and French-Spanish tensions frame the day with stock exchange rumors and Admiralty actions noted.
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St. James’s
Parliament
House of Peers
Marquis of Salibury
Earl of Courtoun
Marlborough
House of Commons
Voth
Rodney
Heathfield
Light Dragoons
Ashford-common
Windssor
Buckingham-house
House of Lords
National Assembly
France
Spain
England
America
London
India
Nootka Sound
North America
Mr. Mears
Majjesty
China
Mears
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of Adkins Estates
Persons with claims against the estates of Henry Adkins of Lamb’s Conduit Street and Richard Adkins of Pemberton Row Gough Square are to send accounts to Mr. Cooch at Baldock Hertfordshire by May 31. Debts must be paid by May 1 to Mr. Cooch authorized to receive them. suit will be brought without further notice.
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Henry Adkins
Lamb's
Richard Adkins
Pemberton Row
Gough Square
Epsom
Surrey
Cooch
Baldock
Hertfordshire
Social Union for Civil Society Improvement Formed
The Social Union announces itself as a two-department institution to promote general good through learning and reform. It aims to study domestic police and government, with academic culture and ministerial reform, funded by subscriptions across England Scotland and Wales.
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England
Scotland
Wales
Social Union
Sir
Robert Herries
Baldero
Adey
Lushington
Cornhill
Ransom
Cheapfire
Gray's Inn Coffee House
Holborn
T. Beckett
New- Bond. Street
White and Son
Fleet-street
Great Britain
Unclear 1905 medical advertisement by Leake London
An 1905 advertisement by John Leake of the Royal College of Physicians cites compounds named Lisbon Diet Drink and Leake's Pills as unknown to the author. It lists addresses in London at Darlaenese Minne Abb and BSCPALTICMLM LLICCke, with Baldwin, Paternofter-run, Egerton, Charing-Cross, and Faulder, Bond-street as distribution points.
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Lisbon
Fele& Cafes
John Leake
The
Royal College of Physicians
London
Darlaenese Minne
Abb & Bscpalticmlm Lliccke
Baldwin
Paternofter-run
Egerton
Charing- Cross
Faulder
Leake
Tontine Life Assurance Scheme Seeks Ipswich Subscribers
An 18th century deed of trust established at Ipswich Securing principal money with yearly dividends from government securities. Trustees include Sir John Rous and others. Subscriptions depend on life ages from 1 to 67 plus. Entrance fee five shillings sixpence and transfer fee four shillings sixpence. Subscriptions close May 34 1793 with staged advance payments. Dividends begin April 5, 1791.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ipswich
Sa@olle
Consolidated Bank
Messrs
Alexander
Cornwell
Alexander and Stooner
Alexander, Cornwell
Spooner
London
Barnett, Hoare, Hill
Barnett’s
Lombard Streets
Tontine proposal promises equal benefit to all lives
The text argues a tontine where youngest and oldest subscribers share equally as survivorship and subscriptions level, promising rising annuity and final principal division. It notes more participants increase certainty of payment and urges public support, adding that foreigners abroad cannot be admitted.
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N. B
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Foreign Intelligence
St. Lazarus
Juan de Tucca
Hudson’s Bay
Pitt
Mexico
Ganges East Indiaman
Cadiz
Lord Keppel
Admiralty
Navy Board
Royal Yards
Gravesend
Ferrol
Carthagena
Board of Admiralty
Admiralty Office
Charing-cross
Portsmouth
Plymouth
West Indies
van der Mersch
Antwerp
Bortsmouth
Common
Gosport
South Seas
Court of King’s Bench
Stockdale
de Lolme
de Lelme
His Majesty’s Navy
Clerkenwell
Pentonville Chapel
Sellon
Glasgow
Jackson
Salisbury Court
Walworth
Wm. Snall
Bell-yard
Miles Rachel Glover
Wood’s Buildings
East-lane
Manchester
B. Gleave
Davies
Edinburgh
Thorp
Buxton
Ann Catharine Grant
Grant
Henry Benge
Lewes
Sussex
John Rous
Charles Bunbury
Gerard William Vanneck
Robert Harland
Joshua Rowley
Philip Bowes Broke
William Middleton
Philip ‘Champion Crespigny
William Rowley
Mileson Edgar
John Ford
Nathaniel Turner
William Fonnereau
Richard Savage Lloyd
Eia
Edward Goate
William Whitby
Robert Trotman
William Ivory
William Beeston Coyte
Richard Powell
John Cobbold
Emerson Cornwell
James Willett
John Kirby
Wightman
Holiday
Court of Chancery
Suffolk
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