Notable 18th Century Appointments and Crimes
Scotland appoints Colonel of the Soth regiment called the Young Buffs. Lord William Campbell becomes Captain of the Carcass bomb. Captn Rathel earns command of the 20 gun ship Success. Thomas Giles is named chief clerk for stores accounts. Mr. Watkins becomes first clerk to Thomas Dyale. A MP’s wife bears a son at Ross Hall. Rev Dr Musgrave weds Miss Tipping in Bath. Thomas Lockwood weds Miss Morris at Marybone. A dead dog reveals a child’s body in St John’s Street. suspect jailed, child buried at Islington. Old Bailey hears fifteen prisoners. one convicted of theft, six transported, others acquitted. Grazier Mr Elliot robbed near laft Grinsted, wounded badly.
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Scotland
Soth
Young Buffs
William Campbell
Duke of Argyle
Admiralty
Caprt
Rathel
Thomas Gyles
Elqs
Mr. Watkins
Giles
Thomas Dyale
Cecil Forester
Ross Hall
Shrewbury
Wenlock
Laft
Bath
Chardin Musgrave
Oriel College
Oxford
Philip Musgrave
Kempton Park
Miss Tipping
Bartholomew Tipping
Woolley Park
Berks
Thomas Lockwood
Marybone
Miss Morris
St. John’s Street
Bridewell
Slington
Clerkenwell
Edward Jewin
Chambers
Gordon
Robert Currie
Elliot
Laft Grinsted
Kennington Turnpike
The Society Accepts All Fit Boys for the Fleet
The Friends to this Society will fes by the above Account, that the Objects of it are attended to in the same Manner as usual. No Boy is rejected who offers himself, being found proper for the Sea, and whose Situation recommends him for that Purpose, and all Boys who have death, or other Distemper, are cured before they are doathed and rest on board his Majesty's Ships. As Males of every Denomi nation, being arrived to 13, are now brought into action in every Shape, and rendered useful, there can be no Superfluity of Boys in the Fleet, nor does this Society find near so many as is demanded of them.
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Emily
Charles Foreign
Lady Spade
Europe
Mademoiselle Comode
Mademoiselle
France
Dangle
Fort Cloke
Modely
Kettle Drum
London Evening Post
Anak Ff
Constantinople
Lam
C. Tristram
Modern Fine Lady portrait in The Footman satire
A satirical portrait of Lady Emily fashioning life in London society. The writer contrasts her airy finery with virtue, detailing her daily rituals from tea to promenades and routs, and ends by lamenting the era’s lax education and its effect on virtue.
Mails from Holland and Flanders Amid Global Shifts
The March letters note Holland and Flanders dispatches, Austrian moves near Schweidnitz, and British plans on Louisiana and Missippi. Reports claim Duke of York may lead fleet, with Amhersts expedition debated. Hamburg guards tighten as Russo-Spanish tensions rise. Newmarket races conclude with Ceres and Flashing Molly among winners.
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Marine Societys
Los Ad
Alance
Apothecaries
John Thornton
George Patterson
Geo. Wombwell
Sun
William Wenlock
Great Bromley
Essex
Richard Turner
J. T. John Brown
William Peeock
Tanstall Amarthail
Godfrey
Nicholson
Yorkshire
Lord Romney
Thomas Edward Freeman
Richard Holmes
Stepney Society
Matthew Neale
Duncombe
Lord Maynard
Sayer
Nidit
Great Britain
Ap Ee
London
Westminster
Sam
Hildeshiem
Ferdinand of
Bailswick
Kimpeckh
Hamburgh
Dping
Petersburgh
Sweden
Poland
Saxony
House of Austria
Vienna
Briffls
Empire
Xavierus
Bruffei
Prince de Soubize
Paris
Upper Rhine
Marshal Weirees
Prince of Conde
Lower Rhine
Naples
Sicily
Venice
Grand Council
Holland
Flanders
Peterbourgh
Czarko- 2Elo
Versailles
George of
Holstein
Brieg
Thay
Breslau
Wil
Duke of York
Edward Hawke
Amherst
West Indies
Louisiana
North America
Cuba
Pomerania
Laudolin
Silesia
Spain
Groyne
England
Ireland
Lisbon
Corke
Vernon
Newmarket
J. Lowsher
Pan
Ton
Mir. Pearson
Molly
Qroenoke
Mr. Phipp
Blank
Mr. Duncomb
Ceres
Cade
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