Deposition of Five Senators Shocks Stockholm Nobility
From Stockholm comes word that five senators, including Counts de Bonde Bielke Barck Hardt and Creutz, were deposed after a secret committee found errors in foreign affairs. The nobility voted to pension the senators, who left Stockholm to retire to their estates. Paris letters report French troops at Monte Maggiore and rebel actions near Nebbio. Rome notes Prebendary Orthoni carrying a royal chaplain patent.
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Stockholm
de Bonde
Bielke
Barck
Hardt
Creutz
Kngdom
Paris A-la-Main
Genoa
Battia
Monte-Maggiore
Calvi
Pieve
Nebbio
Monte-Magegiore
Monte- Maggiore
Ae de Maillebois
Aftia
Rome
Roth
Orthoni
Water spout sighted in the British Channel reports
Report by passengers arriving from Britain midweek says a great water spout hung in the air on Tuesday in the channel, an event not previously known in these seas. Also noted is the Bath report of the death of Robert Oliver, MP for Kilmallock, and the drawer involved in Lieutenant Hume’s murder at Roscrea was found guilty at Clonmel.
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Dublin
Brit
Bath
Robert Oliver
Kilmallock
Hume
Roscrea
Cloniwell
Trials and hangings after Thetford Affizes
Norwich reports a Monday maceration of 25 charged at Thetford Affizes with horse stealing. John Hawker Budwell and Mantle condemned while Wihers Rad Pisley Walton ordered for transport. Sharp and two others sentenced to death at Lincoln for horse thefts across Norfolk and Lincolnshire.
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Norwich
Ous Castle
Thetford
John Hawker
John Budwell
Robert Mantle
John Wihers
John Rad
John Pisley
Joseph Walton
Lincoln
Norfolk
Lincolnshire
London Gossip Opens With Navy Dispatches and Notables
The Clerks of the Admiralty worked late drafting letters for the Royal Navy abroad. Henry Stevens buys Dawley estate for 17000 pounds. Viscount Bollingbroke to depart for the South of France. Count Clermont and the Duke of Richmond to summer at Goodwood. Lottery tickets selling fast. Westminster Bridge cost forecast at 300000. An accidental explosion injures a boy. no major damage. Diplomatic events include Don Geraldino at St James's. fourteen ships to be commissioned next week and the King planning a Kensington visit for three weeks, then Hampton Court. Elections loom for Ashburton, with Tuckfield estate bequests noted. Obits cover Sir Edward Goodere, James Drummond of Blair, Samuel Westall, Mrs Hester, Mrs Wright, Rev Bakes, Mr Beckwith, Mrs Blommart, Mr Geatey, Mr Rasnes, and others, with condolences and career notes. A 107-year-old widow from Seaford is cited as an example of parish-supported serenity.
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Admiralty Office
Reyal
Henry Stevens
Bombay
Fort St. George
East Indies
Viscount Bollingbroke
Dawley
Middlesex
France
Clermont
Duke of Richmond
Goodswood
Sussex
Westminster Bridge
Bowen
Tanatra
Don Geraldino
Spain
St James’s
Kensington
Hampton Court
Amelia
Ashburton
Devonshire
Roger Tuckfield
Deceas
Tuckfield
John Harris
Helfton
Cossiwall
Burghope
Herefordshire
Edward Goodere, Barr
Edward Dinely
Frances
Rogginhim
Evesham
Hereford
Sir John Dinely, Bart
Samuel Goodere
Edward
Beau Fielding
Drury-lane Playhouse
Blairee
Scotland
James Drummond
Bliir
Ely
Samuel Westall
Bath
Hester
Mir Hester
Marklane
Joan Combes
Chester
Taitt
Coildbed
Wright
Covent Garden
William Plowden
Worcestershire
Mary
Thomas Lyttester
Barr
Bakes
Hayes
George Cook
Hatfield
Ear
Beckwith
Horseshoe
Blowbladder Street
Cheayside
Blommart
Henry Blommaist
Goodman’s Fields
Samuel Perry
John Perry
Dagenham Breach
Lambeth
Geatey
London Bridge
Rasnes
Lords of the Treasury
Jast
Abraham West
Guy’s Hospital
Southwark
Jaf
Woodford Bridge
How
John How
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