Turbulent War Outlook Speeds Troop Deployments in Europe
A confidential dispatch outlines ongoing Turkish Persian hostilities and vast troop plans for spring. It cites 130,000 regulars in the Ukraine, 40,000 on frontiers, and 60,000 in provinces, plus 20,000 for Emperor assistance. Ministers discuss with Count d Ostein as courts buzz with balls and entertainments amid shifting alliances and projected visits by diplomats to the Polish and German realms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porte
Ukraine
Cosficks
Calmucks
Sweden
Poland
Augustus
d’Ostein
Dimtzick
Koningsberg
Stanislaus
M. Czarowski
Ratifoon
Cologn
Bavaria
Palatine
The
Hague
Germany
Decpe
Iene A
Pat Bart
Anheim
Id Pala
London notices and royal and parliamentary appointments
London dispatch reports Horatio Walpole's pending return from the Hague with Pan Excellency awaiting him at Paris, while Robert Trevor remains to handle British affairs. It notes the Duke of Leeds en route from Rome for Parliament, Richard Pottenger's Welsh seat, and possible Gloucester see nominees. Also covered are naval promotions, a Marble King William III statue, and various court and bank house notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horatio Walpole
Hague
Orange
Robert Trevor
Walpole
Duke of Leeds
Paris
Rome
Richard Pottenger
Reading
William Jessop
Barliament
Oppston
Gloucester
Rundle
Benson
Durham
Bucks
Talbot
Maddocks
Wells
Digby Dent
Wesst Indies
Charles Wager
Admiralty
Drake
Crookshanks
Rose
Robert Askew
Montagu
William III
Chair
Westminster
Sete Street
Optimo Principi Gulielmo
Dicavitque Hujus Aerarii Societas A. C. McCoxkeriy
Died in Cleveland Court and other rumours of the day
Obscure notices record the death of Richard Hill of Thomas Hill, Esq., in Cleveland Court St James, and Joseph Thorp described as an ancient Diskller with debts. additional items mention a Saxon man at a Strand lecture, misfortune losses, a wife driven to lunacy, and a lordly contest over an estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland Court
St. James’s
Richard Hill
Thomas Hill
Rowland Hill
Saley
Joseph Thorp
Strand
St. Clement’s Church
Ann-Atillar
Europe
Lewis XIV
Lid Broughton
Thomas Broughton
Thomas ClWes
Dedington
Cheshire
Jane
Richard Knightly
Fawiley
Northamptonshire
Bath
Atr. Wright
Warwick
Guildhall
Hardwicke
Edward Walker
Ship Tavern
Temple Bar
Alderman Godshall
Walker
E Thurday
Conepiie
Bank of England
Air
Johnson
White
Nei - River Company
Said- Place
Paris
Lrith
Minjesty
Bulkely
France
Hannover
Great Britain
Mecklemburg
Fenburle
Pontpictin
Lower Rhine
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