Storm and War Preparations Reach Antwerp and Rotterdam
Constantinople reports a dawn storm forcing Turkish warships and French, Italian, and Dutch merchantmen to cast off anchors. Strassburg notes heavy artillery convoys to Toulon and ongoing war preparations. Dunkirk records growing troop numbers, cannons, ovens, and privateers. Brussels discusses a proposed Austrian trade remoning via Ostend. Rotterdam laments unchecked Baltic imports of cannon and hemp fueling French power, warning of naval support for war.
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Dunkirk
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Fort le Blanc
Brussels
Ostend
Rotterdam
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Militia Critique and War News From Across the Atlantic
In a forceful, opinionated London letter, critics decry mismanagement and expense in wartime provisioning while detailing a Nova Scotia expedition dispersal and an unexpected upending of supplies. The piece contrasts civilian discontent with military procedural flaws, urging a transparent accounting of levies and profits. Additional dispatches report Admiral Townshend’s Jamaica voyage, French naval activity near Jamaica and the Channel Islands, and privateering gains against French ships.
Privateer expedition fit for the Fox-hunter sails soon
IRELAN D Cork May 31: The Fox-hunter, 150 tons, mounts sixteen carriage guns and eight swivel guns, commanded by Capt. Townshend, prepares for a four‑month cruise against the French. Dublin June 5: Col. Owen Wynne, representative for Sligo, dies in advanced age. Oxford June 10: Rev Thomas Warton elected Poetry Professor at Oxford. York June 8: Lady Digby Legard gives birth to a daughter. Beverley area: Richard Holdsworth and William North bound over for housebreaking and rape. County Hospital: Zachariah Hollingworth, 50, had a seven-ounce stone removed. recovery likely.
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New England
Read
Warburton
le Luther
Pere Jermin
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John
Monsieur Beauhebere
Shediac
Townshend
Berkeley
Evans
Liverpool
Jamaica
Coghlan
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Antigua
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Ambuscade
Portmahon
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France
Great Britain
William
Cagliari Bay
Lyme
Plymouth
Salisbury
Irelan D
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Dublin
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Owen Wynne
Sligo
Country News
Oxford
Fune
Thomas Warton
Trinity College
University of Oxford
York
Digby Legard, Bart
Richard Holdsworth
Elizabeth Tomlinson
Scarborough
Beverley
William North
Zachariah Hollingworth
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London Evening-Post
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Constantinople
London
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Omnia
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Fort Cumberland
Nova Scotia
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Brewer
Memramcook
Col. Scott
M. Beaudebere
M. Deber Villee
Shediack
Isle of St. John
Halifax
M. Beaudebeare
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