Publick Entry of Princess of Denmark in Copenhagen
Copenhagen reports the Princess of Denmark and the Prince’s marriage celebrated. They settle in Charlottenburg with a grand public entry, cannon salutes, arches and crowds lining the route. A royal ceremony, banquet, and nuptial benediction follow in the palace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denmark
Charlottenburg
N.S
Friderichsberg
Louisa
Prince of Denmark
Prince of
Chritianburg
Aras
M. Blome
Failace
Uigdogh & Tonustu
Jamaican cruiser returns with contraband ship from Havana
Jamaica reports on August 31 that the Rippon returned to Port from a cruise with a French vessel laden with contraband goods bound for Havannah. Sir Chaloner Ogle's tender also returned from a cruise after engaging a Spanish gally for two hours. a calm allowed the gally to drop its boat and escape with its oars.
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Jamaica
Rippon
Havannah
Chaloner Ogle
Providential Capture of Sir Robert Cann's Coachman
In Bristoll on December 17 a young man arrived at Isaac Hewlet's watchmaker shop to mend a watch. Hewlet recognized the piece as the same watch Sir Robert Cann's coachman had brought for repair, showing the day-book to prove it. The man invited Hewlet to accompany him to identify the previous owner, accompanied by a neighbor.
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Vienna
Silesia
Berlin
Warsaw
Poland
Prussia
Hague
Constantinople
M. Kalkeen
Republick
Paris
La-Main
Bezanfon
Franche County
Madrid
Toulon
Versailles
Italy
Count de Saxe
France
Hufsars
Mentzel
Col. Mentzel
Germany
Hungary
Country News
Bristoll
Robert Cann
Stoke
Croft
Isaac Hewlet
Mr. Hewlet
Birch Lane
Lawford’s Gate
Andrew Burnet
Alan
Burnet
Altair
Pain
Bursnet
Laurence-Hill
P.S
Rovert Cann
Elton
Dardham-Down
Watch theft linked to soldier and widow's claim
An account reports Andrew Burnet, a soldier, claiming a watch once belonging to a deceased husband seized during a murder. Burnet, denying paternity of the watch, confessed a plot with a companion Pain to rob the victim. They tracked the watch, later swapping it for other timepieces, with further accomplice Mason named and questioned.
London notices and parliamentary elections report
In London the Earl of Middlesex is named a Lords of the Treasury in Lord Sandys’s term. The Earl of Waldegrave becomes a Lords of the Bed-Chamber in place of the Duke of Marlborough, who resigns. About two hundred MPs dined at Fountain Tavern and vow to pursue liberty. Peter Leigh is elected MP for Newton, replacing the late William Snippens. George Barlow is elected MP for Haverfordwest, in place of Sir Erasmus Phillips. Richard Herbert is slated to be elected MP for Ludlow without opposition, succeeding Henry Arthur Herbert to be made a peer. The Dutchess of Ancaster, widow of the Duke, dies at Grosvenor Square. she leaves two daughters by her first husband. Reports from Lancashire say Rev. Mr Johnson of Whalley married Miss Tarlock of Pride.
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London
Earl of Middlesex
Treasury
Lord Sandys
Earl of Waldegrave
Duke of Marlborough
Fountain Tavern
Strand
Peter Leigh
Calverly
Cheshire
Newton
Lancashire
William Snippens
George Barlow
Slabidge
Pembrokeshire
Haverford West
Erasmus Phillips
Bart
Deceas
Richard Herbert
Ludlow
Henry Arhur Herbert
Efi
Great Britain
Grosvenor Square
Ancaster
Johnson
Whalley
Allancnuiton
Grange
Ely
Agoce Litare
Mig Tarlock
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