Vessels Sail for Crises and Finds in Scotland
Diterrahean and Tetuan plan two leagues of land batteries from the rivers mouth. The Dispatch and Wolf ship of war depart from Penzance on a cruise and the Viper sloop of war under Capt Foster sets sail from Plymouth. Meanwhile labourers near Drumlanrig in Scotland uncover antique silver coins dating to King Robert Bruce.
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Tetuan
Penzance
Foster
Plymouth
Drumlanrig
Scotland
Robert Bruce
Inoculation Utility Debate Letter to Printer
Candide argues for public clarity on inoculation via parish ledgers and year later health reports. He proposes parish tallies sent to the College of Physicians to show post inoculation outcomes including natural smallpox cases and other illnesses. The aim is to settle doubt with factual public data rather than continued controversy.
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London Evening-Potter
College of Physicians
Pericles argues for a concise unified code of laws
The writer urges that laws should be plain concise and easily understood by all subjects. He condemns verbose Statutes and calls for collecting the numerous in force laws into a single properly digested code to prevent unjust punishment of the ignorant and preserve civil society. He cites Moses and Christ as models of clear principle.
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Mr. Migs
Moses
C. Pericles
London Dispatches and Society Notes From August
London reports a busy morning with dispatches to Lord Conway from the Lords Justices of Ireland and a conference with the Spanish ambassador. News covers the Duke of Newcastle’s levee, Hertford’s Irish viceroy expenses, births at the Hoare household, Admiralty meetings, Genoa Corsican truces, Venetian Jesuit decrees, and various European postings. Local items note a Genoa chase, inoculation success in Stockholm, a Royal carriage accident, York and Hambleton races, and oddities from London streets including mad cattle and a drowning.
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London
Conway
Cleveland Row
Ireland
Prince de Mazerano
Little Warwick-street
Pall-Mail
Duke of Newcastle
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Earl of Hertford
Kingtreet
St. James's
Count Dupleix
York
Horace Walpole
Arlington-street
Richard Hoare
Henry Hoare
Beth Banka
Fleet-Street
Board of Admiralty
Charing Cross
Greenwich Hospital
Civita-Vecchia
Corsica
Cologn
Munster
Episcopal
Arentberg
Naples
San Germano
Rome
Charles Ernest of
Stockholm
Royal College of Physic
Wroieifer Schutz
Paris
Pater le Febvre
Senate of
Venice
Genoa
East India Company
Tunis
Cape Spartel
Barbary
Holland
Sieur Henriques de van Hemert
Amboina
East Indies
Dr. Barry
George - Street
Hanover - Square
Win
Gibraltar
Firsh Regiment of Foot Guards
Tower of London
Savoy Barracks
Borough
Weistmtnster
Covent Garden
Holborn
King’s Lynn
Norfolk
Bridge
Marybone
Hambleton
Pratt
Phoenix
Clifton
C. H. Statesman
Kaye
City of York
Vevers
Stapleton
H. Beaufremont
Robinson
John Kaye
Br. H. Crehem
Shaftoe
H. Herald
Wentworth
C. H. Chatsworth
Thompson
Gr. H. Snap Ld
Buckingham
Bay Malton
Vernon
Fetter-lane
Hydevark Corner
Ainey
Stratford
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London Evening Post
Meres
Candidus
Whittingham
John Whitham
Rothin
Lenney
Gilbrough
Cleveland
Yorkshire
Mers. Dale and Corney
William Mewourn
Efton
Mewburn
George Gaul
Margaret Cockburn
John Bowden
William Pearce
Peter Williamson
Thomas Harrage
John Cowfer
Thomas Wilkinson
Wilkey
County of
Northumberland
John Ellerton
Thomas Warte
Thomas Halliburton
Thomas Atkinson
William Hall
Deal
Thomas
Mary
Kelly
Revenge
Palmer
Faro
Edgar
Maitland
Mary Harriot
Jarmaica
Day
Chester
Anne
Dorothy
Powell
Milford
London Bridge
Avid Cc Ie
India
South Sea
Old An
Ishalf Ik An
and Seraw
Rctha
Corn Exchange
Per Laft
George Eaton
Kent
Bermondsey
Southwark
Dartford
Farnborough
Stroud Green
Surry
Black Heath
Cali
Charles Careless
Himsel
James Fletcher and Co
St. Pauls Church
Yard
Pps
England
Great Britain
L. Hawes
W. Clarke
R. Collins
Red Lion
Paternofter Row
Sydenham
Peter Shaw
F.R.S
T. Longman
Mr. Boyle
Lord Bacon
Scarborough
Hoffman
Scarborough Spaw
Italil
Boerhaage
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