Whale Fishery in Greenland Returns with Nine Whales
Mails from France and Holland report the Greenland whale fishery thriving this year. The vessel Theodore has returned with nine whales. the captain says more could have been taken if ships were available to haul them away. Reports from Berlin and Stetin note new German settlement movements in Pomerania and ongoing European political tensions.
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Magdebourg
House of Anhalt
East Friesland
Court of
Genoa
Port-Mahon
Rome
York
Lercari
Houthold
Lishin
Don Dennis
Vasquéz
Mozambic
Zanguebar
Pondicherry
Malabar
Mount Bely
Prince of Nelly
Caronara
Angedivo
Goa
Angta
Melendria
Bonfalos
Bengal
Coromandel
Meliapour
St. Thome
Victorie
Portugal
Gondelour
Great Britain
M. Viejo
Pondicheryr
M. Dupleix
Father Norogna
Giant Irish boy of seven feet nine inches in Cork
Cork July 24 a boy named Corne lius Magrath in the city stands seven feet nine and three quarters inches tall. He left Youghal a year ago due to rheumatic pains worsened by salt water. Physicians say growth pains caused his giant stature. His hand is as large as a shoulder of mutton. His last shoe measures 15 inches and he was born near the Silver Mines in County Tipperary.
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Goa
Bacaire
Lisbon
Don Emanuel
Tagus
Aix
Brignoles
Noife
Messrs
Barbaroux
Fauchier
Olivier
Oliver
Paris
Dauphin
St.Stephen du Mont
Ireland
Cork
Cornelius Magrath
Youghal
Carlisle rumor on Allan Breck Stewart in custody
A Carlisle source reports that a person taken up and incarcerated on suspicion of being Allan Breck Stewart is held in Edinburgh. The note, dated July 27, mentions the gentleman from Carlisle sending this assurance about the case.
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Edinburgh
Carlisle
Allan Breck Stewart
Liberty Granted to Dutch Service Serjeant Named Blair
A fragment notes a man named George Blair, claiming to be a serjeant in Dutch service, who may be released upon producing sufficient certificates of identity. The passage implies hope of liberty after verification, without detailing dates or further names.
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George Blair
Blazing Star sighted over Norwich and Gibraltar veteran dies
Bristol reports a Blazing Star seen in the sky between eight and nine o'clock last Thursday. Captain Christopher Alcock, aged 71, died at his house in St Michaels Plea. he commanded a company at the Siege of Gibraltar and was esteemed brave. Indictments by Methodists against several men for pulling down the Tabernacle. grand jury returned No true Bills.
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Bristol
Norwich
St. Michaels
Plea
Christopher Alcock
Gibraltar
Brookes
Spinsby
Chamberlain
Wilson
Burton
the Tabernacle
Indecent Behaviour Allegations In Enfield Stage Coach Case
A July 1752 General Advertiser report notes a London Beedle of a company accused of indecent conduct toward a lady in an Enfield Stage Coach. affidavits from Jane Brown Richard Sparkes Mary Starley detail witnesses and lack of observed impropriety, while references link to a gratuity given to Mr Bedell, clerk of the Vintners Company, for modest conduct.
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General Advertiser
London
Enfield
Worshipful Company of Vintners
Bedell
Hertfordshire
Jane Brown
Ware
Hertford
Brown
Mr. Bedell
Enfield Town
Wierram Plummer
Richard Sparkes
Duke’s Place
Carpenter
Vintners Company
Mary Starley
County of
Middlesex
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