Invasion Fears and French Influence in Europe 1746
Extracts from letters discuss English and Dutch subsidy aims to counter French plans in Sweden and the Netherlands. Signals include king of Prussia and Vienna diplomacy, Sweden subsidies, and French influence as a threat to Europe. A local note reports four city guard companies discharged and a privateer voyage from Boulogne to Hull with captured sailors.
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England
Scotland
Flanders
Nether- Lands
Germany
Austria
Bourbon
Vienna
France
Holland
Saxony
Crouch
Prussia
The
Hague
Sweden
Russia
House of Bourbon
States General
Poland
Republick
Poltur
Europe
Captain Cunningham Detained in Custody for Conduct
York signal reflects a chaotic note as Captain Cunningham, cited as Uncle by the Duke of Pexh on the mother’s side, who commanded a Train of Artillery at Falkirk, is taken into custody for misbehavior and awaits a course martial, though he perishes under strain from loss of blood.
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Charles Henderson
Trinity
Boulogne
Lord Clare
Darlington
Newcastle
Hull
Calais
Graveline
Dunkirk
Spain
Ostend
Sluys
Middleberry
Campvéer
Hammond
Gainsborough ‘Veffél
Duke of York
Dillon
Routh
Fitz-James
Macguire
Marc Topare
Engand
Country News
York
Jay
Cunningham
Duke of Pexh
Falkirk
Duke of Cumberland sighted in Newcastle amid riot fallout
Letters describe His Royal Highness arriving around one o clock and subsequently departing for Edinburgh. A mob attacked a Popish chapel and house near the main street, gutting and burning the property. Reports also note Sterling Castle’s siege, troop movements, and various official promotions and public notices as the rebellion unsettles northern England.
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Newcastle
Duke of Cumberland
Edinburgh
Wetherby
Papiris
Sterling Castle
Wallis
York
Duke of Kingston
Thoresby Castle
Scotland
Gravesend
Blakeney
Hawley
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London Evening-Post
Paris
Blakesley
Fane
Drummond
Milford
Duke of Ancaster
Essex
Suffolk
Norfok
Earl of Shaftsbury
Doster
Willliam Wise
Benjamin Skutt
His Majesty
S Treasury
John Mill
Richard Mill
Bart
Horshany
Sussex
Treasury
John. Pennington
Peregrine Forge
Hatch Moody
Humphry Portman
Perégrine Furge
Efiad Lednet-Keaner
John’ A. Heffe
Humphry
Portman
James Waller
Lincoln’s Inn
Duke of Newcasstle
Middlesex
Peter Waler
Deceas
Sarney
Cornhill
Durell
Déceas
Lords of the Treasury
Charles Corbet
Liverpool
His
Commission
News Commission
Pig
House of Peers
St Peter’s
Minster
Matthias Mawson
Chichester
James iii
House of ‘Commons
St. Margaret’s
Westminster
Dg Rutherford
Isaiah Viti
St. Paul’s
Mr. Peerfack
Barn-Elms
Mackenzie
Douglas
Col
Clarges Street
Carthagena
Wiite
Chorley
Lancashire
Samuel .Crooké
New Crooke
Miss Crompton
Hall
Mr. Drew
St. Margaret Pattons
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