Mail from Holland and dispatches from Vienna to Riga
Yesterday's mail from Holland reports audience of the Pretender with the Pope and a Cardinal Tencin letter of gratitude. Vienna items recount Mehemet Bashaw ambush near Kutschay, a Gererdorf fire destroying 96 of 103 homes, Venice notes on Asaph siege funded by the Grand Signor, and Riga ice losses of five ships with all crews saved.
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Cardinal Tencin
Vienna
Hungary
Mehemet, Bashaw of
Petsky
Kutschay
Gererdorf
Venice
Asaph
Seraglio
Amsterdam
Laft
Salis
Hay
Riga
Jacob Jeffe
Bremen
Barker Scheel
Carescroon
Thomas Paultz
Hans Hendrick Abelsen
Wolgast
Peter Koop
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Dublin News: New Chancellor and Commissioner Appointments
Ireland reports Henry Boyle is to be Chancellor of the Exchequer replacing the late Coghill and William Ponsonby to join the Commissioners in Boyle's stead. James Howison dies, solicitor to the Revenue. In Fermanagh, Mr Maguire allegedly poisons a mistress then dies after four pills, with the doctor detained at Enniskillen Gaol.
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Dublin
Henry Boyle
Coghill
Deceas
Will. Ponsonby
Viscount Duncagnon
James Howison
S Revenue
Fermanagh
Maguire
Sool
Tempe
Enniskilling Gaol
Woman Takes Poison Seeks Suicide Overhang Sentence
A woman consumed one of her own pills and died, preferring to end her life herself rather than face execution. The event is reported as a tragic self-inflicted death with motive implying she wished to die by her own hands rather than by hangman.
Edinburgh Petition Seeks Privilege Over Plays Bill
Edinburgh officials and the University unite to oppose a bill order'd into Parliament that would grant letters patent to present plays in the City of Liberties. They warn of harm to students and demand equal privilege with English universities, which deny such entertainments.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Execution of Richard Turpin and Court News from London
A York letter reports Turpin was hanged in London and proclaimed himself the robber sought by a Proclamation. The column lists royal baptisms at Norfolk House, court appointments, marriages, theatre events, deaths, and local notices including a new assistant surgeon poll, admiralty postings, and a pond incident in St George's Fields.
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London
York
Richard Turpin
Declard
Essex
Prussia
Duke of
Queensberry
Dover
Denmark
Marquess of
Carnarvon
Princess of Wales
Charlotte Edwin
Secker
Oxford
Wifc
Weymouth
Tower of London
Edinburgh
Ogilvy of
Rothesay
Betty Maitland
Earl of Lauderdale
Thomas Boheme
Size- Lane
Preston
Fortune
Justice Preston
Norwich
Board of Admiralty
Piercy
Strafford
Buckingham
Trotter
Deceas
Bonum
Joyner
Woolwich Yard
Stephen Bliss
Richard Blount
Christopher Burrow
John Emmerson
Harry Gough
Burrill
Sedgewicke
Young
Manaton
Townsend
Hamlet
Theatre Royal
Covent Garden
Shakespear
Lord Bus
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Arriv
Holland
Rome
Ireland
Lington
Northamptonshire
George Watson
Earl of Rockingham
Earl of Malton
Dorfershire
Edward Tucker
Portland
John Tucker
Jaft
Philp Stotherd
St. James’s
Westminster
William Abdy
Wood-street
John Henry Hartcup
Thomas Hartcup
Canterbury
Capt. White
New Albany
Hackney
Willmer
East- India Company
White
Tattog
Spittle-Square
Bishoftgate-Street
Watling- Street
Medway
Bricklayers Company
Hatton- Garden
Tatlock
Commissioners of Excise
Revenue
Mr. Hill
Aaron Hill
Hart-street
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