Foreign News and Proceedings From August Letters
Dispatches from Bastia Milan Modena and Paris report Corsican affairs Dutch robberies and a delayed French squadron at Ajaccio. Prosecution over Archbishop Noailles era Unigenitus conflict and a major woollen and textile postage case ends with a Special Verdict.
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France
Holland
Genoa
Corsica
Bastia
Tripoli
Ajaccio
Toulon
Milan
Adda
Pallavicini
Modena
Sardinia
Two Sicilies
Madrid
Duke of Parma
Lisbon
Vienna
Upper Austria
Hungary
Paris
Maigne
Cardinal Noailles
M. de Vintimille Dé Luc
Tours
Merchantry Drawback Case Far Reaching for Bottles Trade
In Bristol and Angus 17, a major trial addressed whether bottles containing liquor count as merchandise for a 2s 4d per hundredweight drawback. The jury ruled bottles are merchandise, supporting merchants against Crown excise claims. The ruling impacts export duties and the broader trade, with further parliamentary inquiry anticipated.
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Glen
William Perry
Joseph Rickets
Thomas Dimmock
John Peach
William Braginton
Robert Ivyleaf
Ralph Newham
Henry Lankford
Richmond Day
William Allen
John Teague
Jacob Hollister
England
North
Gloucester
Court of King’s Bench
Bristol
Angus
Baron Smythe
Vernon
Pratt
Gould
Pennington
Collelor
the Excise
Crown
Mr. Elton
Mr. Hufly
Js. Davy
Mx. Webb
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Leon D’oon
Great Britain
Peters
Petersbourg
Venice
Constantinople
Oxford
Lord Onslow
Black Hack Hoxse
Sands of Leith
Edinburgh
Wailham Middleton
Belcher
Camilla
William Car
Etal
Ely
William Scor
Ancram
Buck
William Middleton
Eafe
Durdham Down
Wells
Earl of Osford
Foy
George Bridges Rodney
Franche ‘County
Betlay
Grefivaudan
Geneva
Grenobles
Warsaw
Crown Army
Poland
Lithuania
Olyka
East
Frizeland
Pullman
Brandenbourg
House of Hanover
Saxe-Lauenbourg
Baron Bahr
Glasgow
Fisher
Greenock
Eerie Streights
Henry Cornish Henley
Leigh
Somerset
Hofte
James Hofte
Sandringham
Norfolk
J. Fortune
Yester
Scotland
Lord Gifford
Marquis of
Tweedale
Saurday
William Whitton
University of Cambridge
Clare Hall
Isaac Newton
Samuel Clarke
St. James’s
Clay-Hill
Enfield
Woodcock
Thomas Abney
Soke
Newington
London
Peter Mather
Aldermanbury
Islington
William Stimson
Arlington-Street
Gager
Yetterday
James Hodfell
Tower-Hill
Arthur Zouch
Arches Court of Canterbury
Court of Chivalry
Doctors-Commons
Esher
Surrey
Dobson
Trevillian
Cornwall
Exeter
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