Debates on Courland Crisis and Russian Intervention
Warsaw reports a Senate council considering Courland’s fate after the Duke’s downfall, urging a Russian protection claim and a dispatch to Petersburg. Dantzick notes Russian seizure of the Duke’s property, with political shifts toward Saxony. Berlin notes rapid troop movements and a new corps creation. Paris sources reveal Genoa dispatches and Corsican affairs, while Petersbourg confirms imperial stance against the Duke. France plans West Indies ventures amid broader European maneuvers. Genoa mentions Neuhoff’s farewell to Corsica’s leaders and promises of future outcomes.
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Petersbourg
Courland
Poland
Republick
Dutchy
Rita
Dantzick
Mittau
Palatinates
Mauritius of
Saxony
Duke of
Paris
Genoa
Herce
Lomelini
Nat Republick
Corsica
Senate
Bastia
John Baptist Croce
Rome
Cardinal Acquaviva
Cardinal Teem
Leghorn
U.S
Lubras
Henniger
Empresa
Anne
Russia
Versailles
Stockholm
Alsace
America
France
d’Antin
Marquess de la Roche-Allard
Roquefeuille
Nefmond
West Indies
Mitchief
Baron Neuhoff
Corticans
Tremendous Frost and Snow Patch Edinburgh Notes
Edinburgh reports bitter frost with heavy snowfall and crowds viewing a whale near Cramond causing near drownings as ferry crowds surged. Updates note a captured tobacco ship Thomas of Glasgow at Havre de Grace by a Spanish privateer and widespread West Country distress from provisioning shortages and bear meal price.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Cramond
Thomas of
Glasgow
George Buchanan
Greenock
Havre-de-Grace
West Country
Irvine
Tolbooth
Robert
Destructive Thunderclap And Fire Devastate Town
Eyewitness accounts describe a violent blast that toppled people and damaged buildings, with injured residents and a woman burned and scarred. A pillar of fire, crashing thunder, and falling stones caused terror before rain and hail forced evacuations. A second fire in Leith was quelled by magistrates and the fire engine.
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Archibald Bar
John Howie
John Galt
Mason
John Cotton
Lane
Innes
Mr. Boyd
Cunningham
Tolboom
Baiilig Nisbet
Edinburgh
Leith
Ship Henry and Mary Sinks After Leak Off Flamborough Head
News from Newceasile states that the Henry and Mary, sailing from London, sprang a leak near Flamborough Head and sank in about an hour. The crew of ten, including a woman passenger, escaped into a yawl and were rescued by a leaden colter who carried them ashore at Filey Bay.
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Newceasile
Henry and Mary
London
Flamborough- Head
Yawl
Colter
Filay Bay
Browne Granted Mairage To Sussex Gentleman
London reports that Jait Charles Browne Esquire of Bay-Hall near Tanbire-Wells married Marie Mirell of the Moe in Sussex by mutual consent with a fortune of 15,000. Theking’s progress to the House of Lords announced the Lanc-Tax Bill and a bill for naturalists. The Lords adjourned to January seventh, with the Commons also to that date.
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Charles Browne
Bay- Hall
Tanbire-Wells
Moe
Sussex
House of Peers
Duke of Richmond
Lord Fauconberg
Red-Chamber
Julia de Petters
Commons
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