Drowned at Barrow and Lally’s Contempt Trial in Paris
Letters recount 27 drowned after Barrow Barrow flood near St Mullins when a boat overturned. Paris dispatch notes Conncil of Pondicherry urging a treason tribunal against Count de Lally. He chose captivity at Fontainebleau, writing of innocence and requesting royal protection. Parliament prorogued. artillery reduced. Galway riot suppression. various coastal arrivals and ship movements reported with local market notes.
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Paris
Dublin
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Pondicherry
Count de Lally
Te Bastile
Fontainbleau
Duke of
Choiseul
Royal Irifh Regiment of Artillery
William Parks
Galway
Carpenter
Col. Eye
Loughrea
Local clergy notices and weather storm report
Across Cambridge and surrounding towns import notes show Rev William Gawthorp being presented to Sedbergen York Vicarage and Rev Lawrence Gibbs instituted to Brockdith rectory. A royal visit to Southampton is recorded with several nobles. A Suffolk Clergy Widows and Orphans relief collection totals 1971 19s 6d. A violent hailstorm and fire damage near Sutton Cheshire is reported along with a coroner inquest into Peter Houlfton’s death based on Dutch fishermen testimony.
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Country News
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Lade
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Corporation For
Ipswich
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Brockdith
Samuel Gibbs
Layer de la Hay
Colchester
Brown
France
Liverpool
Sutton
Frodsham
Cheshire
Frodham-bridge
Sutton-hall
Peter Houlfton
London News Roundup on Nobility and Disasters
A London column reports on a council at Pall Mall regarding the Danish king and Princess Matilda, arrivals of Portland and Gower, appointments including a baronetcy for Joseph Andrews and various court motions. It covers ship cargoes, deaths, weather damage to Pancras arch, a cricket match between Greenwich Hospital pensioners, public rowdiness at S Giles, executions and pardons, and distant dispatches from Paris and Genoa with prices and incidents.
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Knight of the Bath
Eythrop
Buckinghamshire
Joseph Andrews
Berkshire
Great Britain
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Charles Gibbon
Whitehall
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Richard Baker
Tillingham Hall
Essex
Herbert Homan
Edward Huddle
Downs
China
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Streatley
Bedfordshie
John Nades
Luton
Worshipful Company of Mercers
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Baffel
Britannia
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George
Jedding
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Oxford
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John Williams
Rachael Newell
John Keene
Samuel Smith
John Gibberd
Joseph Kimber
William Sanford
Anne Lamphrey
Postscript on Ministry Stability in London Evening Post
A letter to the printer criticizes frequent ministerial changes in Britain. It argues that shifting ministries undermine domestic prosperity and foreign affairs, noting the era’s instability and the dependence on favouritism. The writer hopes for a more stable government grounded beyond corruption.
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