Earthquake accounts and political notices from Europe
Reports from Vienna and Paris describe a major earthquake near Vienna causing widespread ruin and hundreds of deaths, with the Vizier’s stone palace destroyed. Other items note Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick resigning from Prussia, and a British voyage reporting giants in Patagonia. France issues declarations on religion and interest rates while Bougainville’s settlement questions arise. Berlin letters mention no interview with the Emperor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Pera
Constantinople
Lisbon
Comipass
Bertin
Fulyt
Ferdinand of
Brunswick
Magdebourg
Paris
America
Globe
Mary
London
M. Déla Condamine
Academy of Sciences
M.de Bougainville
Patagonia
Leyden-Gasette
Count de Guérchy
Great Britain
France
Hague
John de Back
Prince Saciholder
Sth
Navigation scheme eyed for Aire river to Skipton link
Leeds July 8 report on a Bradford meeting where extending the Aire navigation via Skipton into Lancashire was deemed practicable, aiming to unite East and West Seas and boost national trade with funding plans and execution estimates. Also notes deaths of Rev James Hathwaite Idle and Joseph Milthorp near Wakefield, plus a fatal accident involving Benjamin Walker after a gun discharged at an alehouse near Wortley Lane End.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country News
Leeds
Bradford
Aire
Skipcon
Lancashire
James Hathwaite
Idle
Painthorp
Wakefield
Joseph Milthorp
Benjamin Walker
Caleb Crowdher
Birkenshaw
Wortley +lane-end
London News of Royal Resignations and Cabinet Shakeup
The Gazette reports a planned cabinet reshuffle with Earl Temple Pitt and Grafton joining as secretaries of state and a new board for the Admiralty and Trade. Rumors say the Ministry resigned after a levee, amid royal family attendance. Also noted are appointments, illuminations, church rectors, and ship delays as global tensions and politics unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
St. James’s
Duke of York
Colonel West
Pall Mall
Scarborough
Earl Temple
the Treasury
Mr. Pitt
Duke of Grafton
Earl of
Gaxzetteer
Amelia
Princess Dowager of Wales
Lord B
Cranborne Lodge
Windsor Lodge
Windsord Great Park
Prince Henry
Charles Pinfold
Barbadoes
Torbay
Britannia
Davis
London
Stowe
Thomas’ Pennington
Christ Church Colllege
Oxford
Canterbury
Tunstall
Kent
Kingsdown
Saucl Ogden
Lawford
Essex
Stansfield
Suffolk
Norwich
George Lukener
Worfall
York
Exeter
Larkworth
Pridham
Martin Willoughby
Great Buffel-street
Bloomsbury
Caroline Horrabin
Horrabin
Piccadilly
Peter Wellington
Key's Antiscorbutic Fluid and an Expostulation
An 18th century advertisement extols Key's Antiscorbutic Fluid as vastly superior for curing scurvy and promises public proof from gentlemen of the faculty. It lists multiple shops and printers selling the remedy and includes an excerpt titled An Expostulation to a pensioned Member of Parliament urging fiscal restraint, national debt relief, and support for the Crown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Key
Baker’s
Exchange-Alley
Monk
Chester
London Evening- Pof
Meres
Arlstone Farm for let near Newbury and Overton
A let notice for Arlstone Farm a 480 acre holding of arable meadow and pasture with a good house and fixtures. Within five miles of Newbury five of Overton and Whitchurch and three of Kingsclere. It includes stock husbandry utensils and crops in ground with 66 acres of grass seeds and grain. May be divided into two farms if desired. For particulars apply to John Ambrose at Taritone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michaelmas
Arlstone
Newbury
Overton
Whitchurch
Kingsclere
John Ambrose
Taritone
London
Safi
William Baker
Heckfield
Hartford Bridges
Hants
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Thames- Street
Andrew Ferguson
Carolina
Bristol
Newfoundland
Barry
Dancer
Dublin
Theatre Royal
Haymarket
Miss Elliot
Richmond Theatre
Hamlet
New Theatre
Brighthelmstone
Deippe
Woodstreet
Wilkes
Plymouth
Chatham
Wednesay
Cowes
Chance
Smith
Rotterdam
Philadelphia
Deptford
Duke of Gloucester
Versailles
Brest
New Orleans
Louisiana
Postscript
Europe
Brutus
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