Plague, Fire, and Military Moves Across Europe Reported
Sunday mail from the era notes the exiled High Treasurer amid Dutch affairs, a Damascus governor beheaded and wealth confiscated, Smyrna plague resurgence, a Smyrna fire causing vast damage, and recruits raised in the Dutchy. It covers Rome, Vienna, and various war fronts with Prussian and Jesuit mentions, plus criminal notices and a list of bankrupts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Constantinople
Damascus
Mecca
Smyrna
Soco
Milan
Fan
Germany
Leghorn
Rome
Portugal
Evora
Porto
Tavora
Peterbourgh
Moscow
Thorn
Count Fermor
Petersburgh
Copenhagen
Baltick
France
Spain
Italy
Vienna
Marshal Daun
Prince of
London Gazette 1759 notable events and appointments
London notes report ships heading to Lisbon and Genoa duties for a Portuguese surgeon in Ireland. It records promotions for royal officers, church livings in Essex and Leicestershire, a marriage in Ratcliffe, deaths at Morden College and Hamstead, a Cambridge case, and an Admiralty notice of an Oyer and Terminer session at the Old Bailey on March 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulda
Eisenach
Prince of Seubize
Wurtzburgh
Nuremberg
Wedel
Thuringia
Erfurth
Aristode
Hague
Villa-Victosa
Genoa
Madrid
Venice
St. Charles
Portugal
Figuera
Holland
Paris
Downham
Ile of Ely
Cambridge
London Gazette
Whitehall
Edward Wilmot
Chaddesden
County of Derby
Kingdom of Great Britain
Felton Hervey
Felton Lionel Hervey
Kingdom of Ireland
Cutts Harman
Waterford
Killoteron
Hugh Bolton
Joseph Holland
Beafton
Beefton
Nottingham
Hofer
Chapman
Jonathan White
City of
York
Hoffer
Joseph Jacobs
Duke’s Place
London
Dealer
Lisbon
Ireland
d’Escadre
Louisbourg
St. James’s
Ogmore River
Kildon
Essex
John Clayton
Lord Irwin
Norton
Twycross
Leicester
Lincoln
Belgrave
St. George
Ratcliff
Joseph Butler
Barfleur
Ath
Ash
Mitcham
Surry
Morden College
Blackheath
Plimley
Wolverhampton
Stafford
Hamstead
Thomas Goldmith
Robert Selby
Francis Moxon
Admiralty Office
Otice
Admiralty of England
Marc
Furtice Hall
Old Baily
Also Mentioned on This Page
Saxony
Poland
Ratislon
M. Piflarius
Anhalt
Rostock
Dohna
Crown and Anchor
Strand
Saint Mary Wigton
Earl of Eglington
Say and
Sele
Arthur Onslow
George Dodington
Thomas Atwood
N.B
Crown
Mt Table
Yates
Pye
Selater
OL Dow
Alillos
Ball
Ucas Uy
Rowland Alston
Gooftrey
Sherrard Street
Goldenre
Rowland Alton
Pee
Ary Petton
William Dobey
Castle Yard
Holbourn
Publyick
Golden Cross Inn
Charing-Cross
Westminster
Dover
Canterbury
Rochester
Dartford
Sittingbourne
King’s Head
Gracechurch-Street
Qin Giytrandé Hauteur
N. B
Deal
Margate
Ramsgate
Koch
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