Conflicts and Movements Reported Across Europe
Telegram style dispatches note Confederate positions in Lithuania destroyed, Polish commandant Bielak defeated, Cracow reports Russian attacks near Tyniec repelled with minor losses, Colonel Fabricius defeats 3000 Turks in Upper Moldavia. Epidemics plague Podolia. Count Branicki dies Cracovia. Queen Mother plans Berlin departure with a four-ton gold allowance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Lithuania
Count Oginicki
Koningsberg
Drewitz
Grodno
Bielak
Korycki
Paczkowski
Cracow
Heisman
Strackelberg
Oebbelwitz
Count Melis
Tyniec
Vistula
Lemberg
Suergeno
Col. Fabricius
Oltus
Moldavia
Podolia
Bialystock
John Clement
Count Branicki
Cracovia
Poland
Hamburgh
Sweden
Berlin
Dukes and officials depart from Edinburgh in windy spell
Edinburgh notes include the Duke of Roxburgh setting out for London and the Duke and Duchess of Buccleugh with the Hon. James Stewart M’Kenzie heading to the capital. Glasgow reports a Monday wind damage while Gowrie records a fatal shooting by a keeper during an orchard attempt. A strong gale in Hamilton damaged a public house at Evan Mill, with 14 occupants escaping fire as thatch caught but fire was contained.
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Sc Otland
Edinburgh
Duke of Roxburgh
London
Duke
Hamilton
Evan Mill
Witich
Violence death in Bath prompts arrests
In Bath yesterday Joseph Brookman a carpenter was found in a field between Bath and Twerton and died shortly after. A bargeman who gave the fatal blows and a ruler deemed necessary thereto were committed to prison. Canterbury reports a grand ball hosted by John Sawbridge Esqr Ollantigh attracting nobility and gentry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Joseph Brookman
Arrivals and Assignments of Ships at Various Ports
Oct 29 lists ships and their destinations with crews and routes including Union Campbell Jamaica Hopewell Ayres Honduras Phoenix Richardson Limerick Earl of Arundel Osborn Jamaica Lady Juliana for Jamaica and other vessels sailing to Jamaica Honduras and France from Maryland Dunkirk Piscataqua Cuernsey Stangate creek Plymouth Dover Amterdam and Milford. It records arrivals at multiple ports and origins such as Maryland Virginia Venice Cowes London and more with several vessel names and captains.
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Dear
S.W
Union
Campbell
Jamaica
Hopewell
Ayres
Honduras
Phoenix
Richardson
Limerick
Earl of Arundel
Osborn
Arundel
William
Herbert
France
Juliana
Stevenson
Garavesena
Carolina
Pearson
Jennifer
Bartholomew
Britannia
Scott
Maryland
Elizabeth
Dunkirk
Denmark
Hayman
Piscataqua
Freedom
Selkirk
Cuernsey
Minerva
Hewlet
Rogers
Benson
Planter
Buchanan
Virginia
Ann
Aitkins
Quebec
Betsey
Davis
Boston
Prowting
Malaga
Stangate-creek
Pohy
Keiselback
London
Ditto
Kitty
Charles
St. Croix
Milford
London News in Brief and Local Changes
A brief note says a guard will travel with the Mails soon. Sheriff Wilkes missed Sessions due to fever at Prince's Court. The Admiral Hawke from Quebec foundered 70 leagues west of Cape Clear. crew saved by a Barbadose brig and landed at Londonderry. The Mary from Smyrna, later Rybant, reached Alexandria. captain and mate died of plague. Eagle Bowden from London to Bristol returned with six feet water after leaking off Start. Foote's Haymarket theatre interior is demolished to enlarge the stage following a new contract with English Aristophanes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Rybant
Smyrna
Alexandria
Eagle Bowden
London
Bristol
Dartmouth
Mr. Foote
Haymarket
Grand Jury Charge and Oaths Hearings at Westminster
The report covers Sir John Fielding’s Grand Jury charge at Westminster Guildhall on October 9 1771 urging strict oath integrity to curb false testimony and protect justice. It notes dangers of perjury, calls jurors to remind witnesses of taking oaths, and warns of societal collapse without honesty and religion. Also mentions coal measures at Bow Street and indictments for butter engrossing and street thefts.
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Lowe
Otter’ 'S Pool
Dublin
Crow-street
Grand Jury
Grand Juries
Foreman
Nisbet
Bowstreet
Covent-garden
Hicks’s Hall
Shady streets plague privalent thieves near St Giles
A London notice cites rising street crime at St Giles with robbers in lanes like Gick lane. It reports eight Old Bailey prisoners tried, four transported, one branded, four births and marriages, deaths in Calcutta and London, plus a testimonial for British Herb-Snuff sold at multiple shops. a consumer endorses its eye-relief.
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St. Giles’s
Broad St. Giles’s
Old Bailey
Wood-street Corpter
John Wrottesey
Mary Hog
Earl of Lauderdale
Hatton
Scotland
Peter Syms
Efa
Marybonestreet
Susannah Blunt
Henrietta-street
Cavendish-square
Joseph Collings
Ely
St. John’s Square
Clerkenwell
Martha Clarke
BishoSrate-street
St. Thomas’s Church
Liverpool
Mr. Nairn
London
Houghton
Richard Houghton
Calcutta
China
Frederick Thomas Smith
Hon. East India Company
Dagenham
Essex
John’ Cleeve
Great Argyll-street
John Hancock
Dublin
Anthony Wilson
Christchurch
Oxford
Shrewsbury
John Corbet
Mr. Watkins
King’s Arms
Pall Mall
Kentish Town
James Ormigton
Pleet-street
Cooke
Penfold
Balinghall - Street
Governor Penfold
Ximenes
Isaac Ximenes
Devonshire Square
Bishopsgate-street
Alexander Hoz
Great Carter-lane
Mr. Forbes
Crishall-grange
New Week's Preparation for the LORD's Supper
An 18th century notice from a publisher urges buyers to obtain the New Week's Preparation for the LORD's Supper, praised as authorized by the King and attributed to the author of the New Whole Duty of Man. It warns of competing imitations and lists John Hinton's shop in Paternoster Row as the seller with a note on availability of the Second Part.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of England
Edward Wicksteed
John Hinten
King's Arms
Paternoster Row
Warwick Lane
Great Britain
Trebind
Edward Wickfleed
Fons Hixton
King’s Arms
Tevellves
Ottawa
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Holland
Flanders
Mr. Rowley
A. Smyth
Cockspurftreet
Sir Isaac " Newton
Signor Algarotti
F. Newbery
St. Paul’s Churchyard
Richard Savage
Earl Rivers
Sir Francis Drake
Admiral Blake
The
Eography
Maredant
Mr. Norton
Golden-square
Thad
Talbot-Inn
Strand
Charles Ashley
Norton
Piccadilly
John Norton
N. B
J. Bell
Exeter Exchange
C. Etherington
York
Hetets
Gven
W. Bayley
Cockspur-street
A. Rothwell
Wew Bond-treet
J. Grosvenor
Angel and Crown
Holborn
Ludgatehill
J. Price
Perfumar
Leadenhill-treet
William Bayley
Farmarket
India-house
Leadenhall Street
St. Paul’s Church-yard
Turnsile
New Bond-street
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