Public Burnings and Rebels Colours Parade in Edinburgh
From Edinburgh June 4 reports a public market day spectacle where fourteen rebel colours captured at Culloden were burned at the Cross by the hangman amid heralds sheriffs and loyalists. The Pretender's standard was carried by the hangman as chimney sweeps bore other colours to the fire. The event concluded with Lord Lovat’s camp colours burned, to the satisfaction of spectators. Also noted are captures of Sir James Stuart and arrival of French officers bound for Carlisle, with details of a French vessel Providence and Captain Brown’s escape from Starnway through Lochbroom.
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Edinburgh
Culloden
Col. Lee
Parliament House
Lord Lovat
James Stuart
Bury
Moodie
Marines
Carlisle
P.S. Young
Lockhart
Carnwasth
Duke
Perth
Lord
Drummond
Glasgow
Fane
Mary Arid Jean
Greenock
Highlands
Starnway
Providence
John Brown
Chant
Lochbroom
Staraway
Express
General Campbell
John, Brown
Brown
French Privateers Sighted Near Yarmouth Sands
Newcastle intelligence reports three French privateers seen off Yarmouth on Thursday. The largest is armed with 30 guns including twelve pounders, with another 20 gun vessel and a cutter. one captured a Yarmouth fishing boat but released it. Extra letters describe Royalist movements, sieges, and rebel activity around Fort Augustus and Lochaber.
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Newcastle
London
Yarmouth Sands
Yarmouth
Fort Augustus Gamp
Howard
Price
Cholmondeley
Inverness
Kingston
Barrel
Wolf’s
Skelton
Sackville
Campbell’s
Houghtons
Dejean
Conway
Fort Augustus
Hawley
Albemarle
Lockhart
Foot
Lord Loudon
Campbell
Lochiel
Murray
Fort William
Duke of Perth
Honourable Acquittal and Promotion Amid Military Parades
A late honour is celebrated with talk of reforms and education for officers. The piece notes public gratitude to the monarch, counts royal processions at Kensington, the Lord Mayor’s events, and movements of regiments to Flanders. It mentions disbanding troops, naval appointments, and sympathy for the education of young officers in the military arts. It also reports on Hanover news, Prussia, Groote, and Allied army prospects from Breda.
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Mipshipman
England
Kensington
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Goldsmiths Hall
Hon. Artillery Company
Swallow-Street
Soho
Duke of
Flanders
Howard
Douglass
Haifke
Jobutor
Econd
Royal
Scot- Semple's
Land
Pulteney’s
Earl of Lincoln
Lord Berry
Benjamin Keene
Klon
Col. Pelham
Admiralty
Thomas Philpot
Portsmouth
Dudley Foley
Ely
Middlesex
Philip Grafton
Aldgate
Por Foken Ward
John Macklecan
Deceas
Duke of Newcastle
Blackman
Wiggs
Robert Bristow
Winchelsra
Byfleet
Cobham
Surrey
Maifs Philipson
John Philipson
S Woods
Harwich
Essex Street
Boult
Newcastle
Houndsditch
Jackson
Doctors-Commons
Henry Edmonds
L.L
Oriel College
Oxford
Dr. Young
Hours of Commons
Canterbury
Cowper
Durham
Townshend
Lord Townshend
Cantacuzeno
Vienna
Cantacuzeni
Wallachia
Charles the Sixth
Ueen
Hanover
Prussia
Pyrmont
de Groote
Europe
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Sir John Ligonier
Knight of the Bath
Douglas
Mordauar
Earl-of -Rotess
Clermont
Prince ‘of
Helle
Sir John Legoner, Earl of Stair
D. of Newcastle
Prince of Hiss
Duke of Dorset
Mons
Als
H. Pelham
Duke of Devonshire
Lord Gower
Lord Duncannon
Earl of Harrington
Mynheer Hop
E. of Chesterfield
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