Fez ransom and Dutch prisoners amid Emperor’s demand
Abroad letters describe Dutch captives from Fez with Captain Stenis who negotiated ransom of 150,000. The Emperor ordered the prisoners before him with four priests. after heated exchanges he threatened to punish them. Intercession allowed the Dutch to depart Fez on the 11th, arriving Tetuan on the 22nd. Also noted: plans to colonize Maranhaga near Spanish America and ongoing European court intrigues across Lisbon, Madrid, and Petersburg with storms, reconciliations, and political maneuvering.
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Fez
Sténis
Comoepany
Muley Ismael
Tetuan
Stenis
Bathaw Limmary
Lisbon
Maranhaga
Spanish America
Madrid
Keene
Bologna
Chevalier de St. George
Cardinal of York
Rome
Petersburgh
Cronstadt
Stockholm
Landscroen
Cologn
Kaiserworth
Bonn
Ratisbon
Saxony
Upper
Amsterdam
76Th
Paris
Martha
Prussia
Berlin
Herring Fishing Reports and Weather Oddities in Scotland
From Edinburgh to Glasgow and Tweedale reports reveal scarce herrings on Clyde shores and a near shipwreck near Greenock with a foundered boat and a lost boy. A dramatic meteor over Glasgow followed by a hail shower marks a rare sky event. In Munchmuir a boy dies and a girl remains gravely ill after a storm leaving them lost all night.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Clyde
Sontiaries
Lochryan
Greenock
Glasgow
Tweedale
Munch-muir
Clergy Changes In Norfolk Suffolk Cambridge Roll Call
Norwich and Cambridge reports note multiple clerical appointments and deaths. Rev Cropley Hatch instituted to Roudham Vicarage Norfolk on presentation by Richard Wright of East Week. Rev Mark Purt of Finborough and Creeting Suffolk dies. In Cambridge King’s College elects officers led by Robert Bland Vice Provost. others named include Smith Beetham Carter Glynn Read Talbot Bailey. Earlier Rev Collier of Trinity inducted to Gamlingay Living presented by Lord Bishop of Ely.
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Norwich
Cropley Hatch
Roudham
Norfolk
Richard Wright
Mark Purt
Finborough and Creeting
Suffolk
Cambridge
Brinkley
John Godfrey
King’s College
Robert Bland
Smith
Beetham
Carter
Buffals
Glynn
John Read
Talbot
Bailey
Collier
Trinity College
Gamlingay
Ely
Prediction of foreign goods support due to education and policy
The article argues that current favoring of foreign manufactures, especially their goods and finery, stems from recent education and political developments. It contends such trends mirror broader shifts in public taste and policy shaping consumer choices.
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France
Holland
Faenés
Gibraltar
Thames
William Finch
George
Earl
Fitzwilliam
Earl of Granville
Dutchess of
Leeds
Smyrna
Baghar
Shah Ho
Corsica
Vais
England
House of Bourbon
Spain
His
Princess Dowager of Wales
Prince of Wales
Duke of Cumberland
Prince Edward
Amelia
Chapel Royal
St.James’s
Lothbury
Mary Scarff
Winchester Street
Lord Digby
Kingdom of Ireland
Co’eshill
Warwickshire
Edward Digby
Malmesbury
Wilts
Bath
George Thornsborrow
Laytonstone
Essex
London
London Hospital
Wallleft
Ufeof
Brill
Maclean
Majoribanks
Wellclose Square
Tolson
India
Pall-mall
Barrott Langley
Esg
Ellesmere
Shropshire
Smith Street
Westminster
Collingwood
Newcastle
Radbourn
Mile-End Road
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