Siege advances as batteries fire on Tortona front
News from Milan notes battery works near Tortona after new trenches opened on the Bastion front. Town besieged forces withdraw to the castle as 1400 garrisoned in Camo dofella surrender awaits. Reports mention Parma honors for Marshal de Villars and plans for renewed warfare in Italy and beyond.
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Jto
Camodofella
Mount St. Plomb
Milaneze
Milan
Marshal de Villars
Parma
Opiro
Guafialla
Mantua
Leghorn
Naples
Sicily
Sienos
Carlos
Florence
Paris
Netherlands
Mons
England
Count de Thoulouse
Genoa
Corfica
Island With Too Much Work Resigns Honors and Employment
The King appoints M. de Carteja Brigadier for services in negotiating the Sweden treaty. He is said to provide 12,000 troops to the King of Poland, as part of the arrangement.
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M. de Carteja
Sweden
Poland
Foreign Ports Two English Ships Run Ashore Near Bouc
Marseilles reports two English ships forced ashore near Bouc the James and Susanna James Skeen from Alicant driven to the Tigunes Point and Hyeres island while another ship near Leghorn is brought in the Nancy John Sutcliff The Neapolitans seize a French bark carrying money to Candia to buy oil
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Marseilles
Fan
James
Susanna
James Skeen
Alicant
Tigunes
Bouc
Hyeres
Leghorn
Nancy
John Sutcliff
Dover Port News Duke of Kingston’s Hunt Embarks for Calais
Dover reports His Grace the Duke of Kingston’s servants and a string of nineteen hunting horses with about fifty hounds sailed Sunday for Calais. This morning twenty three horses in two strings also embarked for Calais, with further details sparse from the port.
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Port News
Dover
the Duke of Kingston
Calais
Letter to the London Evening Post on Liberty and Property
A reader signs as c. A. B. praising Walter Blacket and Mr. Fenwick as supporters of country interests. The letter asserts their stand for liberty and property and denies pretenders, describing their actions as honorable and beneficial to the country.
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Country News
London Evening Post
Newel
Walter Blacket
Fenwick
Thief Daniel Cook Committed for Robbing Masters in Mosaic Work
London reports Daniel Cook committed to Newgate by Justice De Veil for feloniously stealing a gold snuff box and a gold toothpick case from his master and a jeweler. A fictitious letter lured the master’s apprentice to Shoulder of Mutton Fields where a pistol signal enabled accomplices to seize the goods. ten guineas were concealed, but Cook was caught with the items and confessed. Also noted are the marriage of the Prince of Orange to the Princess Royal slated for March first and various parliamentary and social items from the week.
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London
Daniel Cook
Newgate
Justice de Veil
Menaffiere
Lord Harvey
du Tems
Cook
Prince of Orange
George Treby
Leeds
Devontshire
Armsted Parker
Peterborough
Charles Gounter Nicoll
Deceas
Pall-Mall
Lord Bruce
Wilthire
Last Night Died in Pall-Mall and Bath News
Notices report the death of Count Kilmanfegg in Pall-Mall and the sudden death of George Stanley Esquire of Hampshire who married the eldest daughter of Sir Hans Sloane. Bath letters note the Prince of Orange recovering and visiting Bath crowds. Also listed are promotions, appointments, and parliamentary elections involving Gray, Naylor, Lambton, Maister, Jackson, and others, with court and city movements.
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Pall-Mall
Count Kilmanfegg
Hanover
King George I
George Stanley
Hampshire
Sir Hans Sloane, Bart
Bath
Prince of Orange
Bristol
London
Felton
Edmund Hall
Oxford
Hall of Commons
Cafar
Sherlock
Bangor
House of Lords
Moody
John Norris
Portsmouth
Admiralty
Hoth
Gray
King’s College
Cambridge
Honourable House of Commons
John Stone
the Prince of Wales
John Sheibel
Henry Lambton
Durham
Talbot
Henry Maister
Efy
Hull
Lord Micklethwait
Deceas
Richard Jackson
South Sea Company
Sudbury
John Knight
Duke of Wharton
Towerstreet
James Richards
Royal Regiment of the Train of Artillery
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France
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