British News Roundup From May and June Across Europe
Mails from Holland Flanders Lisbon May report punishments in Oporto after riots. Genoa notes queen dowager revival to council. Ensenada recalled. Dantzick rumors of Russian and Prussian moves. Memel clash over ships. Warsaw Prussian and Pomeranian defenses. Hanover and Berlin theater of war. Paris reports army sizes and possible Normandy expedition. Tunis plot thwarted. Edinburgh Leith Hudson's Bay fleet arrives. English local items note apothecary James Robinson's death and highwaymen caught after robbery.
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Lisbon
Oporto
Altho
Cau
Genoa
Spain
Council of State
Marquis de la Ensenada
England
Dantzick
Baltick
Pomerania
Rhoda
Gulph
Konigsberg
Stettin
Marthal Lehwald
Tylfa
Samopitia
Pruffia
Memel
Eg Neely
Warsaw
Prussia
Riffin
Copenhagen
Crown
Denmark
Vienna
Ratisbon
Diet
Saxe
Duke of Wirtemberg
Great-Britain
Ferdinand
Duke of
Beyer
Kurtenberg
Czaflaw
Eee
Berlin
Dresden
Prague
Hanover
Duke of Cumberland
Schwanieie
Paderborn
Europe
Ofzabrug
Fune
Munster
Warendorff
Rheda
Lippe
Soubize
Weser
Hague
Amsterdam
Tunis
Paris
Westphalia
Lower Rhine
Alsace
Franconia
Normandy
Council
Vaffal
Country News Hull Fancy Wheat Arrivals
Four ships arrived here with wheat, and three more are expected soon. Local dispatch notes steady grain movement as vessels reach port.
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Hull
Fancy
The Guinea as a Symbol of Grandeur and Value
A reflective piece argues that true worth lies in intrinsic value, not gilded status. It compares coinage to power, noting how public trust collapses when worth is questioned and that appearances deceive, while detailing mentions of later phrases and racing news from the period.
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Holland
Flanders
Edinburgh
Leith
Hudson’s Bay
Rupert
Fowler
Squirrel
Seahorse
Norton
Dantwick
London
Liverpool
York
James Robinson
Micklegate-Ward
Cambridge
Boxworth
Conington
Drean
N. B
Stamford
Albemarle
Bertie
Starling
Newmarket
Mr. Humphrey
Whitenose
Canning
Lord Chedworth
Huntingdon
Mr. Vernon
Myrtle
Comet
Orober