Mail From France and Royal Curiosities at the Louvre
News from Paris Amiens and The Hague reports various court actions local incidents and royal appointments. The King approves Douzen Bray’s gift to the Royal Academy of Sciences and an apartment at the Louvre with a 1200 livres salary. Turbulent scenes in Amsterdam and Dordrecht regarding the Estates sale and the Republics war council. A magistrate in Brisol suffers assault after attempting to stop looters while 10,000 pounds worth of silk cargo is seized. Newcastle notes Highlands road works and a ship fire on the Tyne.
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France
Paris A La-Main
Amiens
Bellevue
Versailles
Dauphin
M. Douz-en-Bray
Royal Academy of Sciences
Louvre
Hague
Free Port
Assembly of the States General
Union
Republick
Aix la Chapelle
Amsterdam
Dordrecht
Prussia
Court of
Berlin
John Williams
His
Florence
Brisol
Fan
James Hilhouse
Newcastle
Scotland
Tyne
Stockton
Teesmouth
Frequency of Robberies in Edinburgh Detained Over Twenty
The magistrates have ordered a city wide search of suspected houses in Edinburgh and surrounding suburbs to catch thieves. Last night the operation was carried out and upwards of twenty persons are now confined in the City Guard after inability to account for themselves.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Death of Rev George Braithwaite at 110 in Carlisle
Carlisle news records the death of the aged Rev Mr George Braithwaite at 110, noting his long service as Reader and Petty-Canon of St Mary's and a historic start as a Singing Boy in 1652 at the cathedral. In Exon further notes, John Smith alias Lancelot Symonds is jailed on suspicion of involvement in a 20 year old murder on the Buxton Snow near Angola, with Captain Beard killed and a crew member hanged in 1733. A later item reports a 250 ton vessel driven ashore at Mawgan, Cornwall, with all crew saved, while locals looted the wreck.
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Carlisle
George Braithwaite
St. Marsy’s
Exon
Far
Canon Snow
Devon
John Smith
Lancelot Symonds
James Beard
Bristol
Angola
Thomas Williams
St. Columbe
Cornwall
Mawgan
Leghorn
Liverpool
St. Agness
Lower St. Columbe
Fragmented London Essayist Notes Gambling Peril and Reform
The piece argues luxury must be curbed by example rather than new laws, warns gambling could become fashionable and widespread, and cites public reactions in Devizes and Kent. It recounts expectations of political writers, excise debates, anti Jewish provocations, and a Lisbon report on Inquisitors.
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London
Srogejobbing
Paris
E. Kent
Devizes
Black Bear Inn
Lisbon
Bristol
England
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Earl of Weemys
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Ely
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