Empress and Sweden clash over corn supply in Livonia
French influence stirs tensions as Empress negotiates 80000 barrels of corn for Livonia to ease shortages. Ambassadors Marquis de Popital and Sir Charles Hanbury Williams linger in Warsaw amid disputes over loyalty, debt, and detentions. Rumors swirl of Cossack alarm, troop movements, and praiseworthy discipline guiding rulers through a volatile European scene.
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Livonia
Sweden
Prefenr
Westphalia
Germhany
Marquis Dé Popital
France
Arriv
Charles Hanbury Williams
London
Elbing
Prussia
Russia
Lambert
Warsaw
Hom
Lamert
M. Riaucourt
Poland
Jefs
Republick
Poand
Bielinski
Four Fetons of Kelvedon Ravish Woman Near Witham
Four young Fetons from Kelvedon returning from Vipis with two neighbouring girls attacked and raped one victim. All four held her, while two fled. One girl defended herself with a penknife and escaped. Two attackers captured and sent to Chelmsford Gaol. two others fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Witham
Essex
Kelvedon
Vipis
Unconstitutional Methods of Impressment Described
From the Citizen August 5, a letter denounces forced impressment into sea service and army recruitment. It condemns dark hole confinements aboard tenders, nocturnal parish rounds, and the harsh treatment of sailors and laborers, arguing such practices undermine liberty and provoke public abhorrence of oppression by British authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don
Britain
Portugal
Durance
C.n
Liberty and Slavery Critique in Letters from Oporto
Letters condemn slave impressment and the cruelty of Continental imprisonment as a threat to liberty. The writer likens impressment to a form of forced servitude, questions coroner duties after prisoners die, and notes military and civic tensions from Oporto to Vigo. Other items report a mayoral election outcome, a rectory presentation, and local deaths.
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Phileleutheras
Oporto
Vigo
Dal-Castle
Persegrine
Portugal
Worth
Ozo
Stevenson
Billingsgate- Ward
William Pite
Henry Bilton Leggs
Isaac Collman
St. Peter
Theford
Norfolk
Durham
Thurday
St. Andrew’s Church
Holbourn
Francis Warneford
iWells
Bristol
Harry Forbes
Barbadoss
Pach
Harrington
William Vaughan
Clarges
Jarriot Mather
Biddlesworth
Bedfordshire
Fain
Saunders Welch
Francis
Great Buffel Street
Bloomsbury
Hicks’s Clall
Stan
Kate
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Petersourgh
Konigsberg
Memel
Lehwald
M. Beck
Magdeborg
Dresden
Count Bruhl
Prague
Keith
Leitmeritz
Hanover
Paris
England
Stutt-Olendorff
Compeigre
Richlieu
Maine
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