Ottoman and European News from Smyrna to Vienna
Reports from Constantinople recount Ali Bey retreating as Ottoman troops beat him in Syria and Egypt. Count Orton returns with ships and six frigates, hinting at Candia or Morea ventures. Plague widens in the city, consuls retreat, locals bury the dead. Turkish and Jewish communities hit hardest. Warsaw notes Oczakow capture claims. Pest hosts Emperor and generals. Hesse Rheinfels marriage at Feldsperg. Stockholm rainfall hurts harvests.
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France
Holland
Constantinople
Ali Bey
Syria
Egypt
Chick Daher
Paros
Smyrna
Orton
Kan Cioban Oglow
Warsaw
Danube
Oczakow
Vienna
Pest
Hungary
Prince the Peniatowki
Count de London
Count de Noftitz
Hesse Rheinfels
Francis of Lichtenstein
Feldsperg
Prince de Lichtenstein
Stockholn
Tea seized by customs and buried in King's warehouses
Portmouth reports 3634 pounds of tea seized by Capt. Stiles of the Princess Carolina cutter and brought into the King's warehouses. In Hertford-bridge a dispute over a brickbat led to Collyer delivering a fatal kick to William May, with the coroner returning a verdict of wilful murder.
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Portmouth
Stiles
Princess Carolina
Bath
William May
Elverton-parish
Hants
Hertford-bridge
Collyer
Yaan
Cellyer
Arrivals and Sailed Vessels At Gravesend and Ports
Shipping news lists ships sailing for the Baltic and arrivals at Gravesend and ports including Liverpool Virginia Dublin Waterford Glasgow Leith Leith Dover and Yarmouth. Entries name masters origins and destinations notably Petersburgh Rotterdam Cork Jamaica Barbadoes Gottenburgh and Montserrat with several vessel names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dear
Carolina
Stevenson
Baltic
Downs
Gravesend
Albion
Jones
Marquis of Granby
Calder
Saville
Hall
Petersburgh
Favourite
Frederickson
Guernsey
Satisfaction
Kemmick
Narva
Britannia
Rotterdam
Elizabeth
Rebecca
Mocket
Dublin
Harrison
Quebec
Hope
Small
Middleburgh
Delawar
Dixon
Montserrat
Price
Johnson
Jamaica
Strange
Hutchings
Cork
Tom
Clark
Virginia
Liverpool
Ditto
Munster
Lars
Reed
Bell
Thornton
Peterbourgh
Waterford
Sharp
Riendship
Phin
Yarmouth
Thornton, Sutton
AltMeira
Dover
Spanish fleet at Cadiz and Paris hog tax tale
News from Paris dated August 18 describes 30 Spanish ships at Cadiz with 16 ready for sea and possible Genoa alliance. A Paris hog tax edict on August 6 triggers puns and blunt police sparing the prisons. an undertaker’s cart carries headless hogs to evade duty while clerks seek the new heads count.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cadiz
Spain
Paris
Fiz
Poix
Picardy
Boulogne
Inland letter on famine and foreign intelligence amid war woes
Excerpts describe harvest failures in Picardy and Boulogne, rains and floods crippling crops, and fears of famine. Reports from Poland and Virginia relay military actions, pirate and trader incidents, and political intrigues. The piece links economic distress to political instability and wartime pressures.
Housebreakers in custody after Bow Street hearing
On Thursday a serjeant and a private of the Guards were taken up on a charge of housebreaking and, after being carried before the Magistrates in Bow Street, were committed to prison. Promotions and marriages follow, with notices of deaths including John Fater ton of Shafton and others in West Indies estates and London lodgings.
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St. James's Park
Bow-street
John Elphinstone
26Th Regiment of Foot
Arthur Gregory
Joseph Mallett
New Burlington-street
Elizabeth Bradfield
Upper Brook-street
Molineux
Cheapside
Sally Price
Leather-lane
Arnold
Thames-street
Beaumont
West Horsley
Surry
John Faterton
Shafton
Dorsetshire
Plaistow
Essex
James Armstrong
West-India
Parliament - Street
Arthur Newcoman
Pall-Mall
Thomas Smith
West-Indies
Craven-street
Strand
James Webb
Leatherfellers
Pearl Centrifice and Essence of Pearl Tooth Remedy
Jacob Hemet, dentist to Her Majesty and Princess Amelia, offers a new Essence of Pearl and Pearl Centrifice. Claims superior to prior tooth and gum treatments, preserving teeth to old age, whitening, firming loose teeth, preventing toothache and gum scurvy, sweetening breath, and curing many scorbutic gum disorders, with wholesale and retail sales in London venues and listed prices.
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Jacob Hemet
Amelia
Mr. Hemec
W. Bayley
Perumer
Cockspur-street
Haymarket
Alfa
J. Price
Perfumér
Leadenhall-street
Tnd
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Poland
Sieur Kolakowski
Lithuania
Wielkolitki
Pulawski
Silesia
Pislchen-or- Byczyna
Williamburgh
Hon
House of Burgesses
Glarke
North Carolina
Christopher's
John
Martha
Scott
Bequin
London
Richi’en
Mazarine
Refo
Chatham
Weymouth
Palliser
Brown
Newfoundland
Wilkes
Alderman Peers
Alderman’ Bridgen
City of London
Tyburn-road
Gaildhai
Squirt
Clyfer
Dofor
Squart
Bridge-Mader
Mr. Borwick
Temas
Parker
Jefferson
Garnon
Blue
Dell
Sid Bowler
Mesirs
Arnon
Birke
Bowler
Regga
Baronet
Winchester
Vowel
Moulfey
Pons
Rotherhithe
Mr. Bellard
Lombard-street
London Hospital
Moorfields
Chester
Drury-lane
John Snook
Hackney
Germis
Palace-yard
Verdi
Newgate
Andrew
Chadwick
Hume Campbell
Law
Campbell
Matthew Martin
Andrew Chadwicke
San Spelton
Hicks's Hall
Elliot
Gad
Old Bailey
William Thwaites
Nathmason
Great Ormond-street
Susannah Braxton
Braxton
Raffet
Wy. Peyton
R. Hilton
Wellclofe-square
S. Bladon
Paternofter-row
Tate
Eastrund Retford
Nottinghamshire
J Hinton
King’s Arme
Pater
Dward Martin
Fenstanton
Cambridge
Huntingdon
Burrows
Martin
Dr. Burrows
Prince of Orange
G. Kearfly’s
Capel-court
Royal Exchange
Furlington
NA Atartha Wray
William Ava Wray
Robert Turlington
Mary Sopp
Turlington
King’s Arma
Birchin-lane
Martha Wray
Mary
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