Duke of Gloucester Leaves Rome For Month Away
From the London Gazette March 10 Naples reports the Duke of Gloucester plans a brief stay in Rome to spend the last week of his arrival. A separate Bonn-Ober-Olm note describes a February event where a vineyard slid from a hillside, taking a road under its fall and burying acres of vines, with earth movement lasting beyond the event and damaging 15 acres valued at 160 florins each.
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London Gazette
Naples
Duke of Gloucester
Rome
Bonn
Klopberg
London Notes From Parliament And City Crime Reports
London reports on Sir Watkin Williams Wynn taking a Commons seat, Kew House preparations for royal reception, bread prices, and a repeal motion against the game act. The piece details crimes, robberies, weddings, deaths, and public notices across London including a silver theft in Old Street, a decoy at Stockwell, and a murder manslaughter verdict in Portsmouth.
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Watkin Williams Wynn
House of Commons
Board of Works
Kew House
Guildhall
Charles Fox
Lord North
Great Britain
England
House of Correction
Cowbridge
Glamorganshire
Edmondes
Sion-lane
Isleworth
Lurry
Doctors Commons
Ann Flint
James Dean
White Lion
Stockwell
Poultry Compter
Ford
Old-street
A Wire In The Right Comedy at Covent Garden Theatre
An early notice of Mrs Griffiths comedy A Wire In THE RIGHT at Covent Garden Theatre. Cast includes Lord Leyton Mr Smith Colonel Ramsay Mr Bensley Governor Anderson Mr Shuter with Squeez em Mr Kniveton Bobby Bull Mr Quick and others. Plot centers on Lord Leyton's alleged improper behaviour, Miss Melvill’s elopement, and a scheme involving Mrs Frankly and Bobby Bull to rob Governor Anderson of rupees and pagodas.
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Clerkenwell Bridewell
Robert Parr
Magdalen College
Oxon
Medbury
Devonshire
Robert Aufen
the Temple
Miss Gregory
Rood-Jane
Stanwick Nevison
Newby Stones
Westmorland
Joseph Ward
Westbury
Cheshire
Groningen
Holland
Peter Maviere
Kidwelly
Carmarthenshire
William Manfel
Kongsburgh
Island of Sky
Scotland
Lexander M‘donald
Culloden
Warwickshire
Sir Edward Boughton, Bart
Gayton Pilkington
Broad Court
Long Acre
Mr. Hayes
George
Strand
Moorgate
Murgatroyd
Denmark Square
Ratcliff Highway
James Edmondson
Welbeck-street
Cavendish Square
Joseph Mills
Lincolnshire
Lord Leyton
Smith
Colonel Ramsay
Bensley
Governor Anderson
Shuter
Kniveton
Bobby Bull
Quick
Nicholas
Wignell
Vernish
Mr. Morris
Lady Seyton
Miss Miller
Frankly
Mattocks
Lucy
Miss Melvill
Lady
Mrs
Frankly’s
Ramfly
Seyton-house
Miss Melvil
Leyton
Mr Melvill
Lord
Markham
Seyton
Ramsay
Shucer
Profligate Lord Leyton In Love and Deceit at Mrs Frankly’s
In a tangled plot of elopements and mistaken virtue, Lord Leyton pursues Miss Melvill through Mrs Frankly’s circle. Ramsay, betrayed by love, confronts the couple as Lady Seyton faces scandal. A duel is averted by reconciliation, and the drama ends with a reformed stance and a staged pardon.
Epilogue to the Comedy of a Wire in the Ricard
Spoken by Mrs Mattocks she laments ruin and isolation yet plans to cross the ocean for an Indian route Leyton and Ramsay assist Bull vows she need not despair British features carry a premium there
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Ricard
Fire Insurance Claims and Parliamentary Hopefuls in 1772
An 1772 notice details a General Quarterly Meeting of Trustees at the London office for fire losses and insurance, with claims invited by April 2. It also presents a political note from Watkin Williams Wynn of Shrewsbury, praising his election as representative and pledging independence. Numerous items list auctions, horse sales, a three-year-old colt, and property letting at the Crown Inn Harlow with contact details for further inquiry.
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SUN
Osics
Bant-Arest
Cambril
Royal Exchange
London
Craig's
Great Briain
County of
Slop
Haynes
Twickenham
Harlow
Essex
Newmarket
Cambridge
George Hunsdon
Cheveley
Staples Inn
Holborn
Athe
Arondelfhett
The
Strand
Walkiey
Epping
Wife
Harl W
Distress by Land Floods Across Yorkshire and Northumbria
A ruinous flood sweeps away homes and goods across York shire Durham Newcastle and Northumberland prompting urgent charity. A subscription opens at Meff Lowry New town and Co bankers Lombard street for relief donations to the truly unfortunate.
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Yorkshire
Durham
Newcastle
Northumberland
Meff
Lowry, Newton, and Co. Bankers
Lombard- Street
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Newcasttle
Milne
Black Friars Bridge
Portmouth
Winchester
Vienna
Paris
R. Warren
Maryboneftreet
Golden Square
Queen's Royal Marble
Langford
Paternofter-row
Dramatis Person
Shrewsbury
March
John and
Francis Rivington
St. Paul's Churchyard
Epictetus
Elizabeth Carter
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