Frigate Minerva chases a French privateer in a gale
Historic notice recounts the Minerva pursuing a French privateer in rough seas when the foe overturned and sank. It also records clerical appointments at Huggett Rudston Athelstone Oxhill and a Polish dwarf at Paris with vivid traits. Additional items include a Windsor installation rehearsal and a Hyde Park duel outcome, plus a death sentence procession in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minerva
John Whaley
St. John’s College, Cambridge
Dundonald
Huggett
Hugley
Rudston
York
George Durant
Athelstone
Wilts
Salisbury
John Mills
Oxhill
Warwick
Litchfield
Paris
Amsterdam Gazette
M. Bornflasky
Humiedka
Humiecfka
Count Treffan
Royal Academy of Sciences
Society
Hyde Park
Distin&ion
Hampshire
Ludgate-hill
Baily, &c
Tom Brown
Society For the Reformation of Manners
William Moreton
City of London
John Guest
Thomas Smith
Howes
Temple-bar
Richard Beckwith
Ington
Thomas Robinson
Ralph Griffiths
Robert Tiling
Chachman
Samuel Lloyd
Smith
Hicks’s- Hall
Rardon
Nottingham
Immediate acquittal after water exposure case
The subject was thrown into water and remained there for about twelve or thirteen days without putrefaction. The court found there were only circumstantial circumstances against him and he was acquitted.
The Triennial Act and the Septennial Question in Parliament
BRITANNICUS argues that frequent Parliaments are needed to curb corruption and preserve the laws, warning that extending to a Septennial term risks undermining union and liberty. He cites statutes against bribery and interference in elections, noting widespread evasion and the corrupt use of public funds. The letter pledges continued critique of corrupt practices and adherence to the land’s laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince of Orange
Charles the Second
Charles
Commonwealth
The
Excise
M. Cap
Britannicus
Prussian Movements, Marriages, Ship Losses In Eighteenth Century Vienna
From Vienna reports 16,000 Prussians advancing toward Zwickau with intent to enter Franconia. Notices detail two marriages at Epping and Ewell, a death in Lombard Street, and a Felucca loss near Salonica with all crew perishing. Imports of cochineal and indigo from Cadiz and Jamaica. ships Juno, Couronne, Isis, Vestal active at Spithead Deal Downs patrols. Weekly mortality and casualty tallies, and fluctuating stock prices and bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Zwickau
Franconia
Epping
Thomas Altham
Stephen Waller
Silvester
Ewell
Baldwin
Hilfiich
Hilditch
Bear’s Wharf
Nicholas
Lane
Lombard Street
Hatton
Felucca
Serritous
Silonica
Smyrna
Salonica
Cadiz
Jamaica
Portsmouth
Evésing
Spithead
Juno
Cypr. Phillips
Plymouth
Thég’ix
Couronne
St. Domingo
Syiggr
Coffer
Rochelle
Isis
Wheeler
Vestal
Hood
Wanted in Effer for a family house with stables
Wanted in Effer a small family dwelling furnished or unfurnished with stabling for two horses. Also a convenient space for a chair and potential rental of adjoining land or four to five acres nearby. If lodgings are available in a good farm house with the kitchen for lodgers, that would be fair. Letters to G.3 at Mr. Lions Stationer near the Change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porbright
Surrey
Guilford
Bagthot
Chertsey
London
Walton
Cobham
Lincoln's Inn New Square
Oxford
Mantion House
Stoken Church
Woodcock and Barnard
Lincoln’s Inn New Square
de Ious
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London Evening-Post
India
Bank An
Subic
Bank Circus
Vickers
Great Britain
Isocrates
Arislod
Cicero
Dioryinus Halicarnaff
Quitran
Voilius
Petris Ramus
Sourius
Cucar
Pamby
Butler
Barr Blackwall
Lowe
Kolan
Cambray
Widl Cratos Nial
Puerical
John Holmes
West
Norfolk
C. Hichi
Hass
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