Military Demands and Parole Terms Impose Rations Wood and Winter Quarters
From Hanau and Paris dispatches report Prince Soubise forces exacting a million rations for cavalry, 1590 cords of wood, 100 sacks of coal, and 53 847 livres for officers winter quarters. They demand 70 000 crowns and threaten military execution on the Regency. Paris notes Prussia aiding officers, one officer taking leave to France with funds to parole. Extra from the Hague mentions Nassau Weilburg and Princess Caroline, with French troop movements near her territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Soubise
Rosbach
Zoe Roquelaures
Paris
Prussia
France
Madrid
Hague
Prince of
Nassau Weilburg
Caroline
Princess of
Indigo and Indigo Manufacturing Prosperity in Carolina
South Carolina notes a thriving indigo export trade and a new process to produce high quality indigo rivaling French varieties. Government measures with the Creeks and Chickasaws aim to maintain Native alliance. hope to enrich the colony and Georgia. Edinburgh report mentions distillery disruption, grain price drops, and ship seizure near Leith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lantation News
South Carolina
Georgia
America
Scotlawn
Edinburgh
Dunbar
England
Elizabeth
Janet
Ogilvie
Leith
St. Luar
Marriage and arrests reported in Capgrave and Goldborough
A rector Mr Lamp lugh of Capgrave and Goldborough married Miss Collins of a ftrough. Yesterday Christopher Rountry and William Roun ary, his Ficher, of Faceby in the North Riding, were committed to the Castle for sheep stealing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokk
Lamplugh
Capgrave
Goldborough
Miss Collins
James Collins
Christopher Rountry
William Rounary
Missing logbook details from Dover voyages in Cape Clear gale
Fragmentary report notes a packet and ships named Admiral Smith and the Pelican among the frigates. It mentions a wind by east and a Savage Sloop and Canterbury, with vessels staying with the ships as a gale affected Dover and surrounding routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falmouth
Surderturids
John
Cape Clear
Dover
Admiral Smith
Pelican
Poffillion
Savage
Che
London Letter XXXIX on Spanish Injuries and Antigallican
A long critique condemns Spanish treatment of British subjects including Captain Hamilton and others, cites the Sloop Charles and Sloop Thomas and Elizabeth cases, and recounts diplomatic friction since Utrecht. It also covers the interment details for Princess Caroline, the funeral procession in London, royal ceremonial, and a note on the King of Prussia confirming Maurice of Anhalt in life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
West Indies
Madrid
Jamaica
Charles
Anthony Smith
Trinidade
Monieur Norat
Archibald Hamilton
Thomas
Elizabeth
Brian Wells
Alcades
Duke of Portland
Nicholas Laws
Great Britain
Bion
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Hanau
Just
Northworth
Gravesend
Fan
Henrietta
Ewald
Dantzick
Stubbs
Stade
London
Antisthenes
Thucydides
Sharen
Priscepiies
Belizarius
Biodorus Siculus
Alexander
Aey
Livy
Tacitus
Cara
Jamoet
Prince of Wales
House of Peers
Royal Highness
Prince’s Chamber
Old Palace Yard
Westminster Abbey
Henry the Seventh
Norroy
Asm
Majesty
Anal
Royness
Batt
Westomaster Asbey
King Henry VI Chapel
Treffels
St. Pauls
Sielygan
Maurice of Anhault
Lif
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