Mail from France Reports Africa Combat Between Portuguese Moors
Letters from Lisbon describe a November clash near Mazagam where 600 Moors attacked Portuguese cavalry. One prisoner taken, Portuguese rallied at Mazagam’s glacis with a reinforcing detachment, engaging for about an hour and a half. Moors left eleven dead, nearly all wounded. four Portuguese troopers were wounded.
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Etters
Lisbon
Africa
Mazagam
Dresden
Palatinates
Cracow
Spendomir
Siradia
Great Poland
Silesia
Prussia
Copenhagen
Augsbourg
Elector Palatine
Bergues
Juliess
Death of Sir Hugh Dalrymple of Northberwick at 84
From Edinburgh dated February 3, news reports the death on Tuesday the 1st instant at about five in the evening of the Right Honorable Sir Hugh Dalrymple of Northberwick Lord President of the Court of Session in his 85th year. He is survived by his grandson Augh through his eldest son Sir Robert, deceased, inheriting honour and estate.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Hugh Dalrymple
Northberwick
Court of Session
Robert, Deceas
Large Flyboat Flighted From Archangel Reported In Hamburg News
A Hamburg source claims a large Flyboat from Archangel was seen there with four pilots aboard in addition to the Admiralty Pilot. The crew reportedly abandoned ship for a boat near Newcastle, and further details follow from the arrival of the informant.
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Admiralty
John
George Murus
Hamburgh
Carpenter
Newcastle
Hambourg
Archangel
London News Briefs and Appointments From Westminster
London items report Mr Nixon of Monjutor condemned at Westminster Hall for acts against Parliament, fined and jailed with securities. Archbishop of Canterbury buried at Croydon, and Bishop Secker may move to Oxford. Royal appointments include Capt Patterson as Major of the Royal Train of Artillery, Lt Simpson to Portmahon, and George Dobbins named Privy Chamber gentleman. Also noted are births, deaths, manufacturing moves to Maryland, and Quaker protest literature to MPs.
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London
Nixon
King’s Bench
Westminster
Westminster-Hall
Westminnster-Hall
St. James’s
Canterbury
Lambeth
Croydon
Surrey
Collier
Durham
Rochester
Gloucester
St. David’s
Hereford
St. Asaph
Wake
Secker
Bristol
Oxford
Potter
St. James's
Gooch
Salisbury
William Bromley
University of Oxford
Robert Trevor
Earl of Selkirk
Scotland
Edinburgh Castle
Earl of Orkney
Dégeas
Ireland
Hargrave
Great Britain
Port Mahon
Tho. Robinson
Ely
William Rous
Ela
Meads
St. Vedaft
Foster-lane
Waite
Deceas
Howard
Broughton
Tower
Jast
William Churchill
Ipwich
Ordnance
Maryland
Iran
Sweden
Duke of
Capt. Patterson
George Dobbins
County of York
Farnicroft
Exchequer
John Dives
Parkhurst
Daniel Lambert
Aldermen
Tower Ward
Joseph Hankey
Elys
Langhorn
Friddy
Waverly
Huntingdonshire
John Hewet
Anne
Francis Stoke
Tidertom
Wilts
John Hagar
Bourn
Fry
Temple
Capt. Porteous
Edinburgh
Torrington
Woolwich
Lisbon
Helvoetiluus
Newfoundland
High Court of Admiralty
Marthalsea
Southwark
Commissioners of Excise
John Steptoe
Tallow-Chandler
St. Johnc
Officers of Excise
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