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War news and trials amid European tensions and trade exports
Reports describe a courtroom scene where youths were committed to the Gatehouse after prosecution, plus Edward Biattock jailed for highway robbery. Rutland sentences a murderer to death, while export totals show substantial shipments of wheat barley and silver to Portugal and Holland. Letters from Leghorn and Constantinople reveal warlike moves, troop counts, and Ottoman political shifts affecting Europe, with fleet build ups, Mediation efforts, and Prussia-France tensions influencing policy.
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Edward Biattock
Newgate
Justice Chamberlain
Edward Seabrook
John Toone
Oakham
Spain
Oporto
Portugal
Lisbon
Holland
Leghorn
Constantinople
Abdulla-Bashan
France
Porte
Hungary
Bessarabia
Black Sea
Bonneval
Transilvania
Ragotzski
Ingul
Kafikismen
Bosisthenes
Oczakow
Venice
Abdulla Bathan
Seraglio
Bashaw
Salonica
Aga of
Janissaries
Sam
Castelnuovo
Toulon
Russia
Meffieurs de la Jonquiere
Quebec
Brest
America
Petersbourg
O.S
Hambourg
Earl Marishal
Scorfman
Keith
Czarina
Scotland
Italy
Rome
Amsterdam
Juliers
Bergue
Guelderland
Vienna
Prussia
Republick
M. de Ginckel
States General
Berlin
M. de Grumkow
Potsdam
Brussels
Low Countries