Celebrations Over Victory Prompt Royal Illumination
News from Tunbridge Wells reports Princess Amelia expressed delight at public rejoicing for a German victory over the French. Townspeople lit walks and rooms, a lanterned music gallery, cannons fired, bonfires lit, and beer allotted from five taverns as Admiral Hawke eyes Lisbon to watch French and Spanish fleets.
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Tunbridge. Wells
Amelia
Germany
Ferdinand
Granby
Admiral Hawke
Channel
Lisbon
Admiral Saunders
Portmouth
Spithead
Downs
Prince Edward
Plymouth
Minerva
Albany
Yarmouth
Dublin
Scilly
Fune
Vauxhall Gardens
Sadler’s Wells
Reynolds
King’s Bench
Guildhall
London
Brereton
King’s College
Cambridge
Cortsmore
Rutlandshire
Earl of Gainsborough
Robert Trevor
His Majesty
General Post Office
Francis Charlton
Pitt
Bath
Yorkshire
Mr. Short
Great Eastcheap
Samuel Austin
Middlesex Hospital
Brentford
Lapper
St. Martin’s le Grand
Postscript about Jesuit Drops and poison ads in London papers
The text proclaims patent Jesuits Drops as a genuine cure sold at warehouses and printers in multiple towns, urging health claims and urging readers to purchase. It includes a second letter lamenting political writers and a separate critique, followed by war dispatches from Berlin, The Hague, Naples, Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, and London with updates on European military movements and naval actions.
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James Thomson
Neift
Pp. Murdock
F.R.S
A. Millar
Westminster Abbey
Hitt
Baldwin
Eller
Pater-noster-Row
Mr. Jackson
Bookfeller
St. James’s Screer
London
Wilson
Dublin
Fleec-Lane
Old-Bally
DoGor
Mackinder
King-street
Wat Reb
Aupstor
Pitt
Great Britain
Billingsgate
Holland
Berlin
Brunswick-Bevern
Breslau
Silesia
Prussia
Dresden
Saxony
Austria
Schweidnitz
Glatz
Hague
Fulys
Almeyda
Naples
Fune
Vienna
House of Bourbon
Barcelona
Mahon
Spain
Bayonne
Valladolid
Paris
Dunkirk
Madrid
Faris
Cape Francois
Europe
Lisbon
Sir Edward Hawke
Cape Finister
Havannah
Martinico
M. de la Touche
Guadalupe
Rodney
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Perfidia Castigata
Georgius Magnus
Graham
Richmond
Magigors Court
Piccadilly
Paul’s Wharf
Northampton Street
Wood’s Close
Clerkenwell
John Steele
Southwark
Steele
Sarah Metyard
John Fielding
Thomas Kynaston
Mary Morgan
Anne Metyard
New Prison
John Plackett
Newgate
Saunders Welch
James Latham
Finchley
Elizabeth Maine
Robert Walker
London Evening-Post
Portugal
Toulon
Minoico
Count de Stahrenberg
M. de Fontenay
Count de ChaHteuil