Conclusion of Octakon affair lists prisoners and dead count
Since our last arriv'd the Mails from France and Holland the relation of the Affair of Octakon is shortened to the conclusion. The list includes the Seraskier Saghia Mustapha Bacha and many officers, 17,000 dead by July 16, plus those drowned or buried under ruins. Several captains and officers were killed, and a vast booty of gold silver arms horses and livestock was captured.
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Authérity
Petersbourg
Seraskier Saghia
Bashaw
Mustapha Bacha
Oczasow
Sabaltern
Imperial Guards
Munich
Prince of Brunswick
Dublin Toll: Deaths and a Parliamentary Wedding
In Dublin last week Captain Timothy White of Col. Cornwallis's Regiment died at the Bar racks and was buried in St. Paul's Church in a military ceremony. On Sunday evening Hon. Col. Thomas Bligh, MP for Athboy, wed Miss Bury, described as accomplished and fortunes, and they departed that day for their country seat in Bath County.
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Dublin
Timothy White
Cornwallis
St. Paul’s Church
Thomas Bligh
Athboy
Bury
Bath
Duke of Hamilton Arrives at Holyrood with Grand Retinue
Last Tuesday night his Grace the Duke of Hamilton and his new Duchess with Miss Spencer arrived at the Duke’s lodgings in Holyrood house and today set for the Palace of Hamilton. Last night Captain James Dalrymple, son of the late Lord President, married Mrs Cunningham, a lady of five thousand pounds fortune.
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Edinburgh
Duke of Hamilton
Spencer
Holy-rood
Palace of Hamilton
James Dalrymple
Cunningham
Fortune
Election of a Mayor at Slop and November Brutal Executions
The charter day in Slop sees Robert More elected mayor for the year. In Gloucester four malefactors were executed for robbery and burglary including Abraham Wood and John Wood Gypsies and John Willes and William Ellery stay maker and innkeeper. Jacob and Gibbs also noted for house robberies. One condemned youth, Thomas Rickets, reprieved due to age.
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Slop
Robert More
Bishop’s Castle
Gloucester
Abraham Wood
John Wood
Henry Lovel
John Willes
Matthew Davis
William Ellery
St. Philip
Jacob
John Gibbs
Bristol
Kingwood
Bath
Botn
Glamorganshire
Smiths
County
Wilts
Thomas Rickets
Nobig
London society notes and royal court appointments
London alphabet soup recounts marriages and deaths among gentry and nobility, notes on Grocers Company matters, royal progress, and public notices. Includes births and burials such as Lady Bridges, Sir Harry Peachey, and Captain Capper kin. appointments like Mr Farnborough as Page of the Presence. and weather and trade dispatches from Cadiz to Vienna with ministerial chatter.
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France
Holland
Ireland
Scotland
Country News
London
Charles Fielding
Earl of
John
Prince of Orange
Nathaniel Blackerby
Paris
William Bridgeman
Duke of
Saxe Gotha
Countess of
Rockingham
Duke of Grafton
Farnborough
William Farnborough
Deceas
Tottenham Court Road
Capper
Chancery Lane
Hackney
John Smith
Walthamstow
Essex
Jacobson
Jacob Jacobson
Gilvert Heathcote
Sir John
Sir Harry Peachey
Knt
Petworth
Sussex
Sir John Peachey
Bart
Pater-nofter-Row
Harry
Midhurst
Bulitrode
Peachey Knight
Deceis
James Peachey
John Peachey
Bologne
Calais
Dieppe
É&C
Earl of Cholmondeley
Lancaster
Prince of Wales
Stamford
Droceseé
Day
Portugal
Harburgh
Lisbon
Spain
Cadiz
N.S
Madrid
Meaux
Biffy
Fontenelles
Cardinal Fleury
Onf
Amelot
M. Pefati
Provence
Lyons
England
Vienna
Count Khevenhuller
Widdin
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