Postscript on British Remonstrances Over Bay of Honduras Trade
The London Evening Port Ser reports public displeasure at concessions allowing wood cutting at Bay of Honduras. Citizens condemn the Spaniards breach of treaty and accuse the favourite Scot of acting for own gain, fearing renewed injury to British subjects and loss of war readiness. Spain has driven away the workers, prompting calls to defend national honor and possible war.
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London
Bay of Honduras
Great Britain
Spain
England
Why English MPs abroad threaten the military power
A COUNTRYMAN condemns Members of Parliament who are military officers in the minority being sent abroad to avoid trouble at home. He questions why MPs do not remove their own tools, suggesting the ministry relies on the military. He asks what Englishmen can think of a government sustained by force.
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London
Poland
Europe
England
R. Hopwondd
Goosequill in London Evening Post Reply
Democritus contrasts Goosequill with Goosecap amid street safety woes in London. The writer argues streets are hollow, vaults and cellars unstable, and rammed paving raises risk of collapse for coaches and carts.
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London Evening Post
Meres
Democritus
C. A
Questionable Polish street pavements threaten safety and integrity
The fragment argues that faulty construction in Poland Street and nearby areas shows pavements cannot withstand carriages and foot traffic. It warns that planned revamps will further weaken and endanger pathways as new levelling and rammed surfaces are added, noting the flimsy support beneath and the aggressive paving agenda.
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Poland
Bank Established in Cadiz to Support West Indies Fleet
May 29 Madrid reports King King has opened a Cadiz bank offering favorable exchange for Merchants backing the fleet due to sail for the West Indies next month. Advice notes corsairs from Algiers planning coast raids and two frigates. Orders call for Catalonian xebeques to join at Cartagena without men of war to deter Barbarians, who seldom risk battle with a stronger force.
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Cadiz
West Indies
Algiers
Spain
Carthagena
Swedish Envoy Seeks Stronger Ties and Trade Deals
London reports that the Swedish envoy met with King George's ministers to renew friendship and discuss new commercial arrangements between England and Sweden. Dispatches from Hanover note Colonel Greme's return with the Order of the Garter, and Hamburg cites a near-fatal lemonade incident feared to threaten a monarch. Extra letters describe Scots coastal settlers finding fishing work after the peace, Dutch and foreign competition, Jesuit emigration to Paraguay, and quiet British affairs from Havana with artillery orders for Quebec, plus a fatal fire in Amsterdam injuring residents.
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London
Brussels
England
Sweden
Hanover
Greme
Strelitz
Order of the Garter
Spain
Portugal
Paraguay
America
Reuters
King of Bonny
Cowley
Havanna
Quebec
St. John’s Island
North America
Amsterdam
Haersemer Dyk
Thunder storms cause damage across farms and forts
A Brampton near Chat letter recalls a violent storm on Monday February 18 at about 11 oclock causing severe damage to a man of war ship’s rigging and two men injured or killed by lightning. Farmland near Upper Delfe suffered a near collapse of a barn and split trees while Shinglewell saw three men struck, one fatally, and a guard-house at Gillingham Fort had a broken looking-glass from fire. The piece compares European and American thunderstorm defenses and notes port arrivals and exports.
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Brampton
Chat
Bam
Upper Delfe
Gillingham Fort
America
Europe
London
Philadelphia
Boston
New York
Charles Town
Trieste
Indica
Dunkirk
Oporto
Jamaica
Carolina
Hamburgh
Mercury
Bremen
Jane
Dorothy
Peter
Greyhound
Bennett
Barbadoes
Havannah
Hannah
Grove
South Carolina
Deal
Dolphin
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Postscript
Flanders
Madrid
Glagoan
Clyde
Mulls
Galloway
Camyre, &c
Scotland
Fiji
Hugh Water
London-Brid To-morrow
Thurslay
Shoreham
Suffer
Leiczster
Mapplewell
Mapricewei_t -LonGpaLe
Leicster
Tagecher
Thomas Storar
Thomas Pollards
Thomas Bree‘den
John Smith
Charnwood
Loughborough
Leicester
Pare
Mr. Whitby
Derby
Henry Bishop
Horley
Lady Bands Farm
John Dod
Mr. Ammingcon
George
Romimonger Lan
N.B. Rach
Wriany
Falst
India
South Sea
Uitra Od
Goilalt Bk
Cty
Navy
Navy & Woods
Csiste
Ryol
A. B.C
Ahen
Bole-Gourr
Mortgans
County of
Berks
John Fuller
Afton
Wak Ingford
Edward Grub
Old Jewry
Alto
Guildhall
Burklee Fenn
Cornhill
Burkitt Fenn
Sudbury
Great Wallingfield
Cornard and
Bullmore
Holbrooke
Surtfolk
City of London
New Hant Street
Spital-Helds
Middlesex
Meff
Dad and
Ruffell
Threadneedle-Street
Astwell
Falcor
Wappenham
Northampton
Earl Ferrers
John Pierce
Chancery- Lane
William Waty
Earl Ferrers’s
Great George Street
Westmintter
Issac Keay
A. Woodfall
J. Rivington
Piers
Hal Clarke
Collins
R. Horsheld
Crowder
T. Lori~man
Bb.baw
Z. Stewart
M. Richardson
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