Versailles Policy Aims To Secure Free Passage Into Italy
Extract from a minister at Versailles reports France seeks to restore Genoa to its dominions and push Don Philip to a Brabant dukedom to balance Tuscany. Spain pushes for Tuscany under a guarantor power and opposes armistice in Italy. Madrid warns Don Philip’s fate tied to congress talks. Parliament opens with royal speech and votes on taxes, naval measures, and Highland disarming. Royals travel to Gravesend and Kew. various appointments and naturalizations noted amid war news and shipping losses.
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Versailles
Italy
Genoa
House of Austria
Brabane
Don Philip
Tuscany
Spain
Philip Keng
Duke of
Brabant
France
Madrid
Pesce
Aix
Edina Ditch Man Reports Dutch Ships Arriving
A fragmentary 18th century dispatch notes Edina a Ditch Man and twelve Dutch ships from Amsterdam arriving after a morning encounter. Several British vessels including the Young William Mortyn Jennings and the John and Zachary from London are listed with arrivals at St. Kitts and other ports.
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Charles Gore
Horatio Walpe
Great Britain
Lloyd
Westminster School
CL Johnson
Hajesty
Watson
Thomas Boothby Scrimshire
Customs-house
Madeira
Antigua
John Fry
Rowland Fry
New-England
New-York
Rhode-Island
St. Malo’s
Rhode Island
Elizabeth
Pike
Lisbon
Newfoundland
Banks
Plymouth
Bay of
Fos Duras
Dover
West Indies
John and
Mary
Crawford
Antizua
London
Manchester
Moss
Lancaster
Peter
Sarah
Oterio
Piscataway
West-Indies
Mowbray
Mary Ingland
St. Kit’s
Court of Exchequer
Ireland
Nicholas Biddulph
Piai
Mare-street
Hackney
Rayer
George Bowler
Whitecross-street
Southwark
Whitehall
Anné Viscountess Carington
Francis Lord Carington
Wooton
England
Beresford
William Herbert Duke of
Powis
Eleanor Percy
Earl of Northumberland
Elizabeth Somerset
Henry Duke of Belfort
Bath
Marlow
Mitcham
Surry
Howels
Temple-Ear
Bridgman Blackwell
Clapham
Elizabeth Miller
Johner
Dunstable
Bedford
Grosvenor-Square
Blands
John Bland
Thomas Tovates Esq
Deal
Amferdamt
Young William
Tew
Mortyn, Jennings
Phe & Yell
Pennil
Exeer
Ditto
Three Hills
Betty
Peggy
Neagle Tey
Liverpool
E Dove
Semple
Glasgow
Betiey
Burchell
Zachary
Inches
St. Kitts
Kingston
Chefholm
Molinéaux
Boston
Fortune
Hartley
Draper
Wyatt
Royal’ Escape
Woodward
Tarleton
Barlow
Fedge
Hope
Hodgson
Virginia
Molly Watts
Pool
Ecks
Trimmer
Jackson
Guiney
Rothe
St. Kitt’s
Downs
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Foreign Affairs
House of Peers
Duke of Richmond
Falconberg
Jby
Harry
Ballending
Geyleman- Uther
Commons
America
Highlands
Scotland
Buckingham
Buckinghamshire
Peter Neall
John Thorbecke
Dukes of
Richmond
Grafton
St. James’s Palace
Lambeth
Gravesend
Countess of Yarmouth
Prince and Princess of Wales
Kew
Wright
Hanover
Holland
Fulham
Middlesex
Putney
James Pelham
Chelsea College
Norton
Lord Petersham
St. Edmund’s Bury
Dublins
Aberdeen
Montrose
Brechin
Henry Maule
William Corbet, Bart
Ludlow
S Exchequer
Henry
Hele Henry
Lord Herbert of
Cherbury
Robert Grosvenes
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