Swiss Officer’s Retirement Sparks Sealed Baltic Arrest
Petersbourg and Stockholm notes recount a Swiss officer, once France’s lieutenant colonel, urged to retire. he heads to Cronstadt, is arrested by order of the Court, while Italian Allibrandi, long in Grand Duke’s service, is also taken in the city. Anchorage of political intrigues and military moves fill this dispatch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NE Villerie
France
Secretary of State
Cronstadt
Allibrandi
Holland
Stockholm
Blackwell
M. Tolstadius
Door
Scotland
Nice
Provence
Vintimiglia
Antibes
Genoa
St. Tropez
Don Philip
Modena
Monaco
Corsica
Republick
Naples
Duke de Boufflers
Spain
Chevalier de Belleisle
Marquess de Las Minas
Vienna
Schulemberg
Belov
Affizes in Norwich England Report Death Sentences
Last Saturday the judges arrived for the affizes but Lord Chief Justice Willes fell ill and could not proceed on Monday. Trials of Saberton and Mallows and his wife for murder were postponed to next Thetford affizes. Two men were sentenced to death yesterday, Francis Cooper for raping a girl under ten and Johan Sexton for sheep stealing. Sexton later reprieved. The mob was deeply enraged at Saberton and Mallows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover
Luttick
Bergen-op- Zoom
Philipsbourg
Belgrade
Brabant
Tholen
Middleburgh
Zealand
Masirich
Brussels
St. Pierre
Hague
Prince Stadtholder
United Provinces
Bergen-op-Zoom
Distin
Ion
St. Lewis’s
the India Company
Amsterdam
Serene
London
Assembly of the States of
Utrecht
Oudenbosch
Chandles
Baronial
Grenadiers
Flufoing
Country News
Norwich
Willes
Saberton
Mallows
Thetford
Francis Cooper
Johan Sexton
Sexton
Mallows, &c
Lowenhaupt
Boddenbroeck
France
Dr. Blackwell
Sweden
Bich P
Livonia
St. James’s
Harry
Holland
Flushing
Lowendahl
Walker
New Inn-Hall
Tackley
Bertie
Earl of
Abingdon
Aldbury
Oxford
Hilcot
Stafford
William Noel
Tryton
Arbuthnott
Plymouth
Canada
Elizabeth
Guernsey
Cumberland
James Lowther
John Pennington
Barts
Cockermouth
Charles Wyndham
Bart
John Mordaunt
Bentinck
States of
Kensington
Harwich
Russia
Laft
Joseph Butler
Bristol
Shadwell
St. Paul
Putney
James Turner
Berks
Mediterranean
Admiral Medley
Theatre-Royal
Drury Lane
Cashel
Upper Brook Street
Grosvenor Square
Shipping
William Shipping
Newton
Lancashire
Windsor
Dixe Windsor
University of Cambridge
Correspondence on Delinquents and Politics in London
The piece notes Swiftian remarks on punishing delinquents as in Sweden, discusses French military actions and Liberations in France, and mentions figures such as Lowendahl, Dr Blackwell, and Count Bentinck. It covers church appointments, marriages, ship captures, notable deaths, and social notices from London.
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Petersbourg
Cambridge
Alderman Peet Rat
Cherry-Hinton
Walter Serecold
Huntingdon
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