Mail from France and Europe News Roundup
Reports from Petersbourg Stockholm Copenhagen Berlin Rome and other cities recount diplomatic exchanges and court life. ARON Poffe returns to resume negotiations with Sweden’s envoy. Naval gifts move to India Company and Papal instructions urge moderation. Observations include a hail event in Skellefton and military recruiting trends. Public notices in Paris and Brussels mention political cases and linen rags ban.
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Aron Poffe
Sweden
Stockholm
Skellefton
Bothnia
Copenhagen
Our
India Company
Supermania
Berlin
Count Puebla
Carelsbad
Vienna
de Prades
France
Sorbonne
Rome
Genoa
Corsica
Tripoli
Ajaccio
Paris
England
Spain
Martinico
M. Bourghay
Port l‘Orient
China
Dauphin
Misepoix
St. Cyr
Jefini Petuffeau
Leith Stakes Winners Include Single Peeper in 20 Pound Plate
In Edinburgh on Aug 20 Leith races saw Single Peeper, a brown gelding owned by Francis Charteris, win the Twenty Pounds Plate over Sweeter when she’s naked and Gallant Fanet. The Contribu tion Purse of Forty Guineas featured Victorious, Fanny, Blood and all Blood, Don del Combe, and Badger, with Victorious taking two heats. Imputs followed races for lively diversion after the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Edinburgh
Leith
Francis Charteris
Amisfield
Ely
Earl of Dundonald
Thomas Tyddiman
Gallant Fanet
North Britain
George Lockhart
Carnwath
Victorious
John Hamilton
Bargeny
Fanny
Robert Rutherford
Fairnilie
William Maxwell
Manreith
Don del Combe
Robert Carter
Pleasure of recovery for Mr George Golding of Poflingford Hall
The report from Yarmouth notes Mr George Golding of Poflingford Hall in Suffolk has recovered his strength and vigor after bathing at the sea. Meanwhile Birmingham reports the death of the Right Hon. Lady Anne Bridgman wife of Sir Orlando Bridgman bart and daughter of the late Earl of Bradford at Castle Bromwich after a lingering illness. In Warwick and Edinburgh actions at the Assizes include horse stealing convictions, transportation sentences and a threatened execution in the near future. A broad survey of political commentary and foreign news follows, including Denmark and France armament movements and current trade concerns, with Hue Politz news and local race results from Canterbury.
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Yarmouth
George Golding
Poflingford Hall
Suffolk
Birmingham
Castle Bromwich
Anne
Orlando, Bridgman
Earl of Bradford
Warwick
Richard Gibbs
John Davis
Sarah Weet
Mr. Meredith
Thomas Farmer
Richard Smith
John Holland
Newcastle
Edinburgh Buffes
Leith
Shetland
Blackfriar’s Wind
Edinburgh
York Race Week Subscriptions Grow for Future Plate
The article notes a strong prospect of crop and prospects for horse races. The 1441 plate for four years old was won by Mr Fenwick's bay mare Dutchefs. A subscription for a plate to be run at York during Race Week next year has raised 90,000? not clearly specified. Lords and gentlemen started another fund to form twenty subscribers at 25 Leach for five years to be run for at York in Race Week.
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Madam Adelaide
Compiegne
Versailles
Mesdames
Louisa
Sophia
Vittoria
Royal
Thibault and
Joyny
Sens
Paris
Brussels
Canterbury
Coursworth
Traveler
Mr. Martindale
Archer
Eafe
Amsterdam
Musqueto
Mosely
Bay of
Honduras
Capn Mosely
Rand
Jamaica
West Indies
Guard de Costas
Gloucester
Prince Henry
Plymouth
Southwold
Suffolk
Society
Yarmouth
House of Austria
Empire
Henry Pelham
Greenwich
Arlington Street
St. James's
Lincoln
Ashburnham
John Jeffries
Pelham
Treasury
Pulteney
Regiment of Foot
Newcastle
Fort William
Highlands
Gibraltar
Fenwick
Leach
York
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Petersbourg
London
Mote
Denmark
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