British Envoy Guy Dickens Leaves Court Amid Tensions
From London Gazette May reports Bristol and Stockholm items describe Col Guy Dickens departing the Swedish court after friction over memorials and insults to the British crown. Parallel dispatches note French and Austrian maneuvers in Italy and Parma, with troop movements and fortifications near Sarzana and Varese as Britain watches European diplomacy and potential peace terms.
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Venerable Assembly Adopts Overture on Ministerial Voices
In Edinburgh on May 19 the Venerable Assembly passed an Act amending ministerial calls, restricting voices to those who have not twice heard sermons or attended worship performed by a nonjurant minister, limiting participation in church deliberations.
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Stockton Ship Taken and Ransomed Amid Hostilities
Newcastle May 21 A Stockton bound vessel laden with butter and cheese was captured off the Yorkshire coast and ransomed due to hostilities ceasing. Kingston Ship of War crewmen attacked John Richardson in Shields over alleged impressment, two sailors jailed at Morpeth, the butcher recovering, and John Bacon Esquire, a man of large estate and character, died at his Newton Cap house.
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Ship News Letter: Culloden Privateer Engagement Off Dungeness
May 21 letter from Captain Abraham Boxell of the Culloden reports an early morning encounter off Dungeness with a French built privateer. Boxell shot two enemy crew, caused major damage to their vessel, and the privateer escaped as daylight arrived. The Culloden then chased and possibly sank the attacker after a broadside. An English collier was stopped the day prior, robbed, and ransomed to Calais.
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London Intelligence from the Duke of Newcastle Office
An express arrives reporting His Majesty's safe arrival in Holland. The Lords Justices meet at the Cockpit and appoint Thomas Ramsden as Secretary. Berlin reports an enquiry into the A EspRter Loan in Silesia to arrange payoff. Imperialists in Maastricht execute precautions, marching past a French double line with only two deserters found among hundreds.
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