Duchess of Mortemar seeks separation from husband in France
Paris reports the Duchess of Mortemar has filed for separation of body and goods from her husband described as a well mannered courtier. Meffire Charles Valette de Laudun, a senior naval officer knighted in St Louis, died at Toulon on the eleventh instant at age seventy six. The Prince of Modena plans a Vienna journey then Modena to join his spouse. A Paris advocate Meufnier died suddenly while saluting the court.
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Modena
Vienna
M. Meufnier
Paris
Irish Wedding Feasts And A Farcical Crime Report
Details from Monaghan Omagh and Cork describe a dramatic rescue from a Warrants case in Ballyleck, a 14-year-old marriage at a feast with livestock and ale, and a public execution order for the Boyce murder clan near Bandon. Dublin reports the death and funeral of Arthur Baldwin at Stephen's Green and St. John’s Church.
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Ireland
Monaghan
Dublin
Ballyleck
M‘clenaghan
Omagh
Rourk
Pindar
Cork
Boyce
Clonakilty
Bandon
Richard ‘Cox
Stephen's ‘Green
St. John’s Church
Arthur Baldwins
Tragic Inn Keeper's Death in Thomas Street Mob Action
Mrs Hutton, housed at the Bull's-Head Inn, reportedly cut her throat with a razor in her chamber. She was said to be in good circumstances with a fortune, her body privately interred at St Catherine's Church, later taken up and dragged through the streets by a mob until restrained by her servants and housed in a stable.
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High Court of Chancery
Hutton
Bull’s-Head
Thomas-street
St. Catherine’s Church
London
William Townley
Townley
Lancashire
Richard Townley
Mary
William Lord Widdrington
Miss Standish
Ralph Standish
Standish-Hall
Philippa Howard
Thomas
Duke of Norfolk
Pianel
Louisa
Onslow Burrith
Downs
Plymouth
Prince Maximilian of
Heffe
Munggen
Nugent
Kent-street
Germany
Mapp
Colony of
Georgia
America
von Beck
Chickesaw
Duke of Newcastle
Weymouth
Viscount Weymouth
Lord Carteret
Grosvenor Square
Earl of Ashburnham
New Bond-street
William Williams
Reuthen
Denbighshire
Campbell
Co. Campbell
Duke of Argyll
Dumbarton
Somerset House
St. Anne’s Church
Westminster
John Clavering
Axwell
Durham
Batt
Reynolds
Lincoln
Ampthill
Bedfordshire
Miss Armstrong
Thomas Amstrong
Town
Fig
Charles Griffth
Boston
County of Lincoln
St. George’s‘ Church
Hanover Square
Casey
Bridgwater
Winchester
Blandford
Dosset
Liberty granted to Crawford and Wilson over Porteous case
In Edinburgh yesterday John Crawford who rang the Bells of St Giles Church and James Wilson a journeyman weaver formerly confined on suspicion of aiding in the Porteous hanging were released by warrant from the Advocate and Solicitor General.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
John Crawford
St. Giles’s Church
James Wilson
John Porteous
His
Election in Worcester chooses Taylor and Albert
Worcester December 17 reports an election to fill the Body of the Twenty-four. Richard Taylor and Swift Albert were unanimously chosen in the vote.
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Country News
Worcester
Richard Taylor
Swift Albert
Marriage in Lancashire and sweeping London gossip in one issue
In London notices emerge of a Lancashire marriage between William Townley of Townley and Miss Standish with 10000 pound fortune. alongside duels, arrests for illegal liquor sales, and a lively stream of court and society chatter including illnesses, funerals, and upcoming parliamentary bills and marriages across Georgia notices and noble families.
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