Rumors of Political Shifts and Prussian Movements
Reports from Dantzick and Thorn describe factions within the Meblefe Regency shifting toward Duke Biron. Bennet, Prussia’s resident, declares that the king will not acknowledge any other ruler for Courland, insisting a Protestant must hold it due to Catholic succession laws. Dispatches note Prussian regiments moving from Great Poland toward Brandenburgh-Prussia and a large sixteen thousand strong corps possibly halting at Thorn. A fire in Lurje Broek destroys 49 houses with only three surviving.
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Tig Meblefe
Silesia
Thorn
Enchuyfen
Lurje-Broek
Quake in Smyrna and Local Notices from Bristol and London
From Smyrna comes word of a violent quake on the 38th of January at eleven in the morning. Bristol mourns marriages and deaths, noting William Hart’s nuptials to Miss Wall and the deaths of Cardinal Cenci in Rome and Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon of Epsom. Public notices list appointed Lent preachers at major churches, Bristol prison escape plots uncovered, ship arrivals from the Havannah and Jamaica, recent inward and outward entries, and trade data including silver, wheat, sugar, beaver skins, and tobacco flows, with vessels bound for Dover, Gibraltar, Maryland, and Guadaloupe. wind reported southwesterly.
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Lon Odon
Smyrna
Jaft
St. Eowen’s Church
Bristol
William Hart, Esq
Stapleton
Miss Wall
Rome
Cardinal Cenci
Elizabeth Dixon
Epsom
Great Pulteney Street
Furye
Pe- Fearine Furye
Lient
Chapel Royal
Stebbing Whitegall
Potter
St. Faul’s Cathedral
Nicholls
Wewgate
Dover
Diligence
Styles
Batchelor
Roberts
Rainbow
Davis
Sally
Brine
London
Addison
Briton
Willson
Providence
Elizabeth
Carey
Dunkirk
Germany
Turku
Ireland
Hamburgh
Virginia
Deal
Rufane
Clark
Pomona
Prince William
Wardrofer
Gibraltar
Brooks
Maryland
Scorpion
Beart
Guadaloupe
Wind S. W
Price Bank Stock Shifts and Bond Quotas Noted
A fragmented OCR snippet records bank stock prices and bond quotes with references to old annuities, India bonds, and navy bills. It lists percentages and fractions like 4 per cent, 3-4ths, 3-8ths, and references to long and new annuities, with scattered dates including 1762 1763. The text preserves a market listing flavor in a historical ledger style.
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India
Zee Difce
Old Long Ann
Newstrom
Ditto Lott
Liberty the constant companion of life in the Monitor
An essay in the MONITOR No 399 argues liberty as essential to happiness in moral civil and political life. It warns that tyrants mask oppression with claims of divine right and urges vigilance against corruption and the use of a mercenary army to subdue liberty. It discusses Parliament's role, elections, and the dangers of centralized power.
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Fife
Excise
Roman Empire
A&t
Senate
Tax on cyder sparks broad English alarm and outrage
The NORTH BRITON laments a new excise tax on cyder as partial and tyrannical, decrying judges replaced by petty officials and exposing alleged ministerial folly, self-interest, and financial mismanagement in the treasury. It condemns the sectarian reach of revenue policy and ridicules leaders for ignorance and graft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Captain Elliot
Gilbert Elliot
Scar
England
Scotland
Duke of Newcastle
Treasury
Cyder
Scottish finance view on Union era observers
Fragmentary remark cites Swift and Scottish administrators of finances. The writer notes some Scots with great titles amassed wealth before the Union, beyond what a traveling Scotsman could imagine, contrasting past and present revenue. The passage reflects fiscal critique and national pecuniary perception in a historical context.
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Carcely
Fats
Swift
Public mood contrasts at embassy arrival in capital
Reported scene shows French crowds cheering their ambassador as he entered the capital while English onlookers voiced strong disapproval. Peace celebrations differed by side with quiet gloom lingering after the proclamation and few illuminations.
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W. Strahan
Statree
Law
Che
Waliam
Gloucester
A. Millar
R. Tonton
Strand
Moses
Julian
Lord Bolingkreke
William Pitt
Elys
Lambert
Prise
Europe
Asia
Africas
America
Ana
Great Britain
John Entick
Edward Dilly
Poulery
John Mikan
Charing-Cross
J. Juniper
St An’s
Soho
Ally
Oldson
Haymarket
Mr. Churchill
Williams
Ludgate-Hill
Corhill
Gely
Whitechapel
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