Dispute Over Courtland Duchesses Petersburgh Visit
Report from foreign affairs notes the Duke of Courtland in disfavor with the Russian court after his Duchess is invited to Petersburgh for the Great Russian marriage rejoicings. She departs with jewels and wealth, with speculation she may not return to Mittau. The Duke seeks to accompany her, but the Empress refuses and imposes 30,900 crowns plus 24,000 yearly dower, impacting his income, while he maintains better terms with Courland’s states.
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Courtland
Petersburgh
Dughess
Rossia
Petersbourg
Mittau
Tafett
Courland
Edinburgh execution and theatre plans in early September
Edinburgh but of Sept 1 reports Ann Mackie or Mather was executed in the Grassmarket for child murder. Mr Digges has brought several named individuals to the theatre Royal for its opening in early November and may return to London by December after a short run.
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London
Elegant ball at Amesbury by Duke and Duchess of Queensberry
Salisoury Sept 16 reports a grand ball at Amesbury hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry attended by nobility. The event opened by the Duchess and Mr Beckford, featuring country dances, a supper, and a desert served with refined taste. Yarmouth Sept 12 notes a churchyard accident at St Nicholas's during service. A boy fell from a ceiling plank, breaking thighs, dying about dawn, causing panic and delaying sermon.
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Salisoury
Duke
Duchess of Queensberry
Amesbury
Beckford
Yarmouth
Isles of St. Nicholas’s
Arrivals and Passages Off Gravesend and English Ports
Ships and captains depart and arrive at Gravesend and ports including Monitserraty Arran Drinkwater St Joseph Culloden Speedwell Hawke Jey Onega Two Brothers Gravesean Chance Hud son Morton Petershugh Susannah etc Vessels from Harling Amsterdam Gronngen Boulogre Boulogrie Rotterdam Stockholm Petersburgh Grenada Archangel and more with names of ships captains and destinations sailing from Ireland Norway and the Baltic regions to England in late September.
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Arran
Monitserraty
St. Joseph
Bilboa
Culloden
Ous Gravesean
Hawke
Row- Jey
Ireland
Christopher
Dourland
Onega
Wicks
Harling
Gravesend
Chance
Hudson
Countefe
Morton
Ortock
Petershugh
Susannah
Hendrick
Coopman
Buck
Nancy
Johnson
Amsterdam
Sarah
Hartsburgh
Cornelis
Albert
Dawes
Carlbergh
Sigftron
Stockholay
Squirrel
Tinley
Mary
London Intelligence on New York Invasion Report and Allied Moves
Fragmented dispatches describe patches delivered to Lord Germaine about a New York transport sighting and a king’s troops advance. Reports note a grand meeting at Count Brold’s house and a two hour conference with Lord Weymouth amid texts from Madrid about commerce treaties and wary militia acts.
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London
George Germaine
New York
New-York
Brold
Sarony
Clinton
Rheig
Fleet News from Spithead and Lisbon Fire Up Port Talk
Extract from a letter dated Sept 1 describes Asgog captained by Garland arriving at Spithead from Antigua with convoyed Leeward Islands fleet, Governor Stewart returning as passenger. Mermaid capt Hawker sails from St Helens with twelve ships bound for America. also notes Lisbon reports, court notices, local trials, and weather/traffic remarks.
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Portsmouth
Spithead
Saip Asgog
Garland
Antigua
Governor Stewart
St. Helen’s
Americh A
Leiver
Lisbon
sAprij
England
Coint de da Lippe
Masthal
Portugal
Vanity and the Foppery of Learning in Clergy
A reader laments vanity amid the clergy and youth, arguing pride in dress, equipage, and mental show corrupts manhood. He warns against pretended superiority, cites a village example of a cleric drawn to worldly ornaments, and urges restraint and humility to curb such foppery.
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Dar
Ray Ding
Ty Snl
Béte
Syern Saami
Toodie
Eally
Koaw
London
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Postscript
Evan KG
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