Europe War News From Madrid to Paris and Italy
Mails from Holland reach Madrid with word of ten ships fitting out. Parma and Milanese strongholds hold against Spaniards as Don Philip strengthens at Placenzia. Imperialists advance under General Bernleau recapturing magazines near Lodi. French plans foresee two armies in the Ten Countries this year. News from Brussels and Antwerp notes Prussian discipline and potential neutrality. Atlantic news reports privateers and storms affecting Boston, Rhode Island, and Jamaica, with Townshend's fleet in Port Royal and Martinique provisioning issues.
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Etters
Carthagena
Pavia
Belriguardo
Don Philip
Placentia
Count de Gages
Parma
M. Maillebois
Provence
Italy
Milan
Bernelau
Lodi
Maragno
Lowen- Son Arriv
Hussars
Bernelay
Teffinc
Lichtenstein
Turin
Paris
Duke de Noailles
Madrid
M. de Buffy
England
Novi
Genoa
Brussels
Mons
Namur
Waffenaar
van Hoey
Brest
d’Anville
Dieppe
Havre
St.Malo’s
Ferrol
Scotland
Mautevrier
Jaly
Irish Mob detains three Scotch ships bound for Scotland
From Drogheda we hear thatTuesday afternoon the mob rose and unrigged three Scotch vessels laden with corn and meal for Scotland believed for Rebels. In a Cape Clear engagement a French warship captured one English merchant ship while another escaped. A bill for naturalizing Jews, sent from the Commons to the Lords, was rejected on second reading.
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Ireland
Dublin
Drogheda
Scotland
Cape Clear
House of Commons
House of Lords
Edinburgh March News Notes Transports Reach Aberdeen
Edinburgh March 24 Yesterday the Transports sailed from the Road for Aberdeen and with a favorable wind they have likely reached the port by this time. On Tuesday night Sir Peter Halket Wedderburn of Pissirrane and Qosford Bart died in his 87th year. Mean time the Rebels do not seem disposed to face him now. Lord George Murray with cannon has battered Blair Castle but is said to be holding out.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Aberdeen
Peter Halkit-Wedderburn
Pissirrane
Qosford
George ‘Murray
Blair
Burgaeh
Lords Commissioners of the Treasury
Easter Grant
St. Giles’s
Hampstead
Thomas Woodward
Jnn
London
Middlesex
Thomas Saunderson
Deceas
Prince and Princess of Wales
Héralds
Héralds, Pursuivants,&c.,and the Knights of the Garter, Thistle and Bath
Chapel Royal
St. James’s
Canterbury
Andrew Agnew
George Murray
Andrew
Perth
Bristol Martineers and Sailors Stir Public Turmoil
March 29 dispatches describe a whipped deserter roundup at the Guardhouse in Wine-Street and six men confined in Bridewell. A large sailor mob, angry over pay, marched Brandon Hill threatening to hang those who took less than their agreed guineas, before dispersing. Also noted are a Newgate escape attempt thwarted by Keeper Dagg and the death of Mr Wayne, a leading glovers and undertaker.
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Country News
Bristol
Wine-Street
Lord Berkeley
Bridewell
Amelia
George
Prince Frederick
South Seas
Brandon Hill
Newgate
Mr. Dagg
Wayne
St. Peter’s Street
Kingdom
March of His Royal Highness and Royal News from London
London reports on the Duke of Cumberland advancing toward Rebels in Britain with prayers for unity. Also notes Treasury appointments, churchgoing at St James's, and an Edinburgh letter about Blair Castle siege where Sir Andrew Agnew defends with limited cannon and Mussalars capture prisoners.
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London
Duke of Cumberland
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Wafferbourg
Swabia
Ulm
Rhine
Huninguen
Antwerp
Berwick
Saint
New-York
Greenell
Martha’s Vineyard
Globe
Rees
Antigua
Philadelphia
Havanna
Virginia
Boston
New-England
Boston Packet
Hunter
Louisbourg
Cape Anne
N. E
Salam
Marlborough Head
Rhode Island
Newcastle
Vineyard
Cape Cod
Shirley
Massachusetts
Tynge
Altho
Cape Breton
Warren Snow
Kattur
Dougall
Port Louis
Hispaniola
Newport
Townshend
St. Peter’s
Port Royal
Martinico
Logie Rair
Killicrankie
Dunkeld
Patrick Haldane
Alexander Home
Yorkshire Blues
Lord Malton
Carlisle
Gaul
Spain
Rome
Barrawara
WilLiam
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