News from Constantinople and European reports in Dec
The London Evening Post reports Tefterdar dismissed and sent to Syria to govern Sidon with the Reis Effendi promoted. British Ambassador Porter engages Grand Vizir to resolve issues with London replies. Obrescon the Russian minister shares dispatches and a peace plan. Denmarks plan to form a Mediterranean squadron appears confirmed. Paris notes royal council on Parliament affairs. The Argo reports winter passage through ice, Hudson's Bay encounter tales, Labrador coast survey, and Moravian settlement incident with a Snow ship crew.
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France
Holland
Constantinople
Ottoman Empire
Syria
Sidon
Reis Effendi
Morea
Clement
Porter
M. Obrescow
Moscow
Europe
M. Obrescon
Hamburgh
Denmark
Mediterranean
Portugal
Africa
Copenhagen
Danid Minjetty
Francort
Genoa
Bastia
Paris
Princes of the Blood
Madnais
Versailles
Dutch Ship Brought In By Pilots After Distress
In Brisol Combe last week a large Dutch ship entered after being driven by weather and fog. Two men had been at Chatimat eight or ten days. Pilots charged thirty guineas for their trouble. A journeyman carpenter was jailed for murder of a Jew, leading to loot found in a hollow tree. Miss Warren and other ladies were robbed in Limekiln Lane, and Mr Weare’s house was plundered. Norwich reported two attackers beating a distiller near Eaton, escaping in darkness.
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Brisol
Combe
Monmouth
Weare
Lawford
Norwich
Award
Eaton
Abuses of Holy-days and Charity Duty in Modern Times
A discussion on Holy-days as a season for balancing accounts and charity marks the period. The piece notes laws guiding debts and interest, urges temperance in religious zeal, and cites status and appointments at Oxford. It also reports an Ode rehearsal for the New Year, a Russian oath over a lost diamond, and a fire at the Old Seraglio in Constantinople.
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University of Oxford
Earl of Arran
Earl of Litchfield
Earl of Clarendon
Colley Cibber
Bsg
Laurent
Greene
Greene, Master of His Majesty’s Band of
Hickford
Brewer Street
Meff. Beard
Wafs
Bailedon
Gates
Savage
Chapel Royal
His Majesty’s
Moscow
Seraglio
Constantinople
Voyage of Schooner Argo To Northwest Passage
Philadelphia on Nov 15 reports the Schooner Argo under Captain Charles Swaine arrived after an Arctic voyage from spring. It traversed from Farewell to lat 63 north, met two Danish ships near Davis's Straits, and learned ice was unusually extensive, contrasting with the mild 24 year period.
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Streights
Resolution
Hudson’s Bay
Labrador
Norway
Goff
London
Swaine
Davis
New S. Philadelphia
Argo
Charles Swaine
North West Passage
Farewell
Ball River
Disco
Copenha
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