Imperial Majesty Receives Compliments on Accession Anniversary
Petersbourg and Warsaw dispatches note the Empress’s anniversary at the Palace Chapel with artillery, fireworks, and a palace ball. Regiments listed for the Emperor include six foot and rest dragoons, around 300 Cossacks. In Rome a Barbary corsair wreck caused 46 drownings and 120 slaves. Copenhagen reports Hambourg talks stall awaiting fuller powers as the Prince of Culmbach is expected.
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Biron
Munich
Rome
Procida
Warsaw
Senate
Czarina
Copenhagen
Hambourg
Prince of Culmbach
London Gazette Notes High Politics and Court Life
A dense London summary covers fiscal reforms, clerical purges, and the King’s service reshuffle in Scotland. It notes Bowles earning a Doctor of Divinity, royal dragoons heading to Scotland, and numerous political appointments, elections, and society entertainments. Dispatches report European diplomacy, Ottoman and Persian fronts, and European court intrigues, with a focus on ongoing negotiations and continental movements.
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Thomas Bowles
Brackley
Northamptonshire
University of
Oxford
Royal Regiment of Dragoons
Gore
Scotland
Kerr
M. del Campos
Portugal
Golden Square
Rundle
Diety
Christopher Powell
House of Commons
Kent
Viscount Vane
Deceas
Edward Dering
John Finch
Maidstone
Stephen Fox
Shaftbury
Hindon
Henry Fox
Eig
Percival
Earl of
Miles Branthwayt
Arthur Onslow
Robert Walpole
Horatio Walpole
Charles Wager
Col. Bladén
Leicester Fields
Mary
Scarlet
East India Company
Bombay
Christ’s Hospital
Thomas Fletcher
Theald Hospital
Halsted
Essex
Elitha Smith
Rochester
Westminster
W. Greaves
Inner Temple
Chitcester
Society For
Bow Church
Cheapside
Edmund Isham
Admiralty
Court of Honour
Earl of Effingham
England
Justinian
Itism, Bart
Northampton
Littleton Church
Middlesex
MiGs God
Edward Wood
Littleton
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Vienna
Turin
Earl Waldgrave
Paris
Augustus
Poland
Lithuania
Prussia
Berlin
Petersburg
Germany
Constantinople
Thomas Kouli-Kan
Christendom
Porte
Thomas Kouli Kan
Boshia
Muscovy
Persia
Mynheer Kalkeen
Parakin
Hungary
Modena
Lyons
Basil
Toggenbourg
St. Gall
Brest
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