War News from Europe Reports Siege Actions and Diplomacy
Augmented dispatches describe Bergen op Zoom operations and French assaults near Rover and Rover’s fortifications. Reports verify Austrian and Spanish troop movements, Dutch Diet decisions on Count Tefflin, and potential Polish Saxon diplomatic ties with Potsdam while noting resignations of Waldeck and Lippe and Swedish alliance considerations.
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Vienna
London
Count Fickenstein
Prussia
Berlin
Sweden
Genoa
Crete
Sea of Sturta
Madona del Monte
St.Francis d’Albaro
Naples
Mantua
Count Schulemberg
Lombardy
Count Brown
Chamberry
Fuly
Madrid
Spain
Savoy
Iialy
Paris
Netherlands
Stockholm
Count Teffin
Dyet
Teflin
Baron Bulow
Poland
Elector of
Saxony
Potzdam
Dresden
Tonares
Count Lowendahl
Bergen-op- Zoom
Scheld
Lille
Frederick-Henry
Bragels
Fort Rovers
Prince Waldeck
Breda
Hague
Rotterdam
Bergen-op-Zoom
Fort Rover
Waldeck
Ja Lippe
Scots and French privateer actions near Anstruther
From Leith July 20 and Edinburgh July 21 reports describe a French privateer capturing two ships near May Island, one burned, another carried off after ransom refusals. Miss Mary Drummond, daughter of Viscount Strathallan, dies in Edinburgh and is buried in Montrose. Five regiments encamped at Fort Augustus with Lee's replacing Houghton's at Fort William, St Georges Dragoons on the Eastern Coast, and news of a 60-gun warship and three sloops cruising off Torry for trade security.
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Scotland
Leith
Margaret
Robert Paist
Montrose
Landers
Anstruther
Iland
Edinburgh
Mary Drummond
Viscount Strathallan
Glasgow
Skelon’s
Handafyd
Sackville’s
Mordaunt’s
Blakeney
Fort Augustus
Lee
Houghton
Fort William
St. George’s Dragoons
Torry
Ireland
Clerical Institutions and Local Obituaries in Norfolk and Canterbury
Norwich reports last week saw Rev Addison and Rev Ellis Bullemur instituted to rural rectories in Norfolk. Sir Horatio Walpole and Zuri Girdlestone presented the Baconsthorpe rectory. Samuel Lillington, notable city manufacturer and former Sheriff in 1730, died. Venner collated to Sutton Vallance living. Curteis presented to Hartlip vicarage. Franke’s resignation linked to Chatham ministry. Husband named for Stocksbury vicarage.
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Country News
Norwich
Addison
Cawston and Sall
Norfolk
Pembroke Hall
Cambridge
Ellis Bullemur
Itteringham
Horatio Walpole
Efa
Zuri Girdlestone
Baconsthorpe
Ruth
Samuel Lillington
Canterbury
Samuel Venner
Sutton Vallance
Savage
Ozsar Curteis
Rochester
Hartlip
Franke
Chatham
Husband
Stocksbury
A Journey to Soberton or Ajoney and Dhanagement
Theater notices describe a three act farce with a diverting interlude, aimed as a counterpart to Vins Disgrace and Porto Bello taken, plus a new patriot insertion. Kings, admirals, and gentry figures are named as events unfold from Kensington to Flushing with naval assignments and celebratory royal hand-kissing.
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Cape Finisterre
Soberton
Ajoney
Erica
Holbourn
Dyet
Sweden
John St. Lo
Kensington
Earl Pawlet
Boscawen
Portsmouth
Woolwich
Deptford
Flushing
Kensington Palace
Italy
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The
London Evening-Post
Germany
North
Maestricht
St. Pierre
Prince Frederick of Hesle
Staventen
Count de la Lippe
Lichtenberg
Faid
Meuse
Amsterdam
Lowendahl
Rover
Utrecht
Prince of Orange
London Gazette
Holland
Dort
Gouda
Schoonhoven
É&C
Droitart
Court of Justice
Steenbergen
Eycken de Por
Rovers
Pilsen
M. de Lowendahl
Duynendaal
Boifleduc
Wendt
Wurtzburgh
Arnheim
Wurtzburghers
Swartzemburg
M. de Swartzemburg
Toledo
Bergen op-Zoom
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