Trade and Military Movements Across Europe Report
Copenhagen reports hint at a strengthened alliance with France for subsidies while expanding trade with French ports. A large Mediterranean squadron is sent to protect national commerce against Barbary raiders, with potential Iceland and Greenland fisheries ventures proposed. Hamburg notes Prussian troop readiness and Berlin cites disunity among major powers as a precautionary motive. Hague reports Marshal Bathiani’s Antwerp voyage and frontier quiet, with a Vilverde skirmish and Italian to Vienna courier news on Spaniards' retreat.
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France
Mediterranean
Petersbourg
House of Holstein
Germany
Iceland
Greenland
Holland
Hambourg
Principality of
Magdebourg
Berlin
Pedewius
Hague
Marshal Bathiani
Antwerp
Saxe
Brussels
Waldeck
Vilverde
Munich
Italy
Vienna
Execution of William Gibbs in Gloucestershire in 18th century record
Gloucester March 29 report of last Thursday's execution of William Gibbs for breaking into Richard Fletcher's house at Ebrington and attempting to murder him and his nephew. Gibbs, previously industrious, had fallen to heavy drinking, lamented his fate, received the sacrament, and died during a hanging at about forty, leaving a widow and three children.
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Gloucester
William Gibbs
Richard Fletcher
Ebrington
Werson
A. Taylor
Upholder
Call for Reform of University Discipline and Living Costs
A reader urges the Cambridge universities to curb abuses and corruption, especially excessive living expenses. He argues frugality and sober living will better prepare students for the learned professions, and suggests public reform via the paper to awaken those in power to implement change. He signs as a sincere lover of the universities.
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Cane
Cambridge
News and notices from Exeter to London and Plymouth
A patchwork of 18th century items: election rumor on Sir Thomas Acland for Devon, a Plymouth ship retaking, Royal progress of the Princess Caroline to Bath, parliamentary deaths and appointments, military planning against Scotland, naval transports and batteries, assorted executions and personal losses, private letters from Vienna and The Hague on ministry changes, and a fatal Mint house collapse with a murder confession.
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Ooonodon
Exeter
Thomas Acland
Devon
St.Anne’s
Westminster
Teale
Maidstone
Kent
Caroline
Bath
Reading
Marlborough
Excise
Draper
England
William Fletcher
Mobberley
Chester
Ely
Stanton
Portsmouth
Herbert Pawlet
Pawlet
Oulton
Southampton
Norwich
Chichester
John Miller
Ofussex
Fenchurch. Street
William Sheppey
Hereford
Constitution Hill
Cleveland-Row
St. James’s
Duke of Bridgewater
Col. Egerton
James Beauclerk
Whitchurch
Shropshire
Craven Street
Daniel Prevereau
Secretary of State
Duke of Newcastle
Philip Tomlinson
Virginia
Hague
Meéff
van Dem Bembden
van de Poll
Amsterdam
Waffenaar de Twickele
Waffenaar
Paris
M. de Largelliere
Royal, Academy of Painting and Sculpture
N.S
Mint
Southwark
Matthew Henderson
Dalrymple
Thomas de Veil
Newgate
iValue
Anapolis
Piney Lands
Gabriel Parker
Icol
Barker
Calvert
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Aberdeen
James Gordon Cubéerdie
Lord Forbes
Everard Fawkener
Scotland
Mull
Skie
Gravesend
Prince of Hesse
Skelton
Mordaunt’s
Royal Irith
Richbell
Haughton
Aldboroughs
Suffolk
Ratdliff
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