Armies Move Across Frontiers Amid War News
Letters from the front report the army under Field Marshal Count Munich entering the desert region separating Ukraine from Bessarabia and marching toward Biatograd as a possible feint to draw Turkish forces. Garrisons at Oczekow and Kinburn total about 24,000 as reports of Orfova’s defense grow. Imperial forces prepare for Orlong siege while Temeswar suffers pestilence and misery as Turkish raids increase retirees and timber destruction.
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Munich
Bessarabia
Biatograd
Heider
Bender
Philipfaig
Bonneval
Femefwar
Clnef
Wallis
Orfova
Cornberg
Orlong
Temeswar
Paimar
P.S
Mofnitza
Power that will ship enslaved Africans to Brazil for fixed price
A fragmented remark describes a plan where a power will itself transport a set number of enslaved people to the Portuguese colony in Brazil each year for a fixed fee. It reflects the brutal trafficking of Africans during colonial times and references Brazil and Portugal.
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Brazils
Election of Sir Robert Lawrie O Maxwellioun MP
In Scotland on June 26 Sir Robert Lawrie O Maxwellioun Bart was unanimously chosen as Member of Parliament for the Burghs districts of Kirkcudbright Dumfriess Lochmabken Annan and Sanquhar, replacing Willym Kirkpatrick Ey who has become one of the principal Clerks of the Session.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Robert Lawrie O “Maxwelioun, Bart
Kirkcudbright
Dumfress
Lochmabken
Annan
Sanquhar
Willym Kirkpatrick
Highwaymen captured after escape at Ongar public house
Reports from Colchester dated June 30 recount two highwaymen seized at a public house in Ongar, brought before a justice, then committed to Chelmsford Gaol. One escaped, using a gate leap and river crossing while pinioned, later aiding the capture of his fellow, in efforts to uncover further robberies. A servant’s barn fire at St. Giles’s Parish endangered a dwelling but was extinguished with aid.
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Country News
Colchester
Ongar
Rilex
Chelmsford
D .O
Bofon
St. Giles’s
Bristol
Maac Baugh
Edmund Baugh
St. James's Square
Sally-Rowe
Rowe
Guy
Fire loss and charity inquiry in Bedfordshire parish
A man named John Knowles faced examination before Sir William Smyth after reporting a lightning fire on October 9 that destroyed barns, grain, hay, a stable, and the dwelling, with an alleged 206 pounds raised locally though officials doubted his tale. He left to consult Mr. James Harvey and did not return, raising charity and forgery suspicions. Also notes high society marriages, court appointments, naval dispatches, and multiple local deaths and obituaries from the period.
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London
Perfon
William Smyth
Bedfordshire
John Knowles
Tee- Hall
Lee
Herford
John. Brown
Grosvenor Square
Belides
Parithes
Lleman
James Harvey
Warden
Endfield
Staffordshire
Stamford
Laft
Queen Square Chapel
Ormond Street
Coventry
Carew
William ‘Carew
Cornwall
Bamfield
Coppletton Warwick Banfield
Richard Bamfield
Barc
Justice Comyns
S Court of Exchequer
Reynolds
D. Bo
Baron Fortescue
Court of Common-Pleas
Serjeant Parker
Court of Exchequer
Serjeant Wright
Prime
King's Serjeantts
Admiralty Office
Addmiral
Haddock
Port Mahon
Hardock
Firce
Lane
Whitechae
John Robinson
Hulbdaid
Kedia Robinsgn
Deceas
Great Valley
Brenwoot
Trormpingrin
Cambridge
Partick
Patrick
Philip Colles
Herryw
Preat
Rundral Pottip
St. Alsbai’s
Catlin
Cos
East Shurday
Mornting
Edgts
Ale
Barh
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London E vening-Park
France
Holland
Warsaw
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