Voyage of merchants and battles in a war abroad
Reports from Marseilus note ships Dispatch and a privateer capturing seven transports bound for Mina sca with provisions and forage, while a Granville privateer ransoms Knutsford Sefton and intercepts other ships. News from Portsmouth cites convoyed transports assembling at Louisbourg, and a French privateer captured ships off Portland. Royal army letters say English forces ready for action against the French. Prince Henry of Prussia’s army reports progress in Bohemia. Local notices include appointments, deaths, a charity school update, and a forthcoming comet visible in the western sky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port l’Orient
Matektics
Pondicherry
Gap
Duke de Gharertd
England
P.S
Marseilus
Minasca
Civita Vecchia
Portland
Granvillsy
North Carolina
Liverpool
Jupiter
Bayonne
Knutsford
Sefton
Portsmouth
North América
Louisbourg
Halifax
Ferdinand
Saxony
Prince Henry
Prussia
Bohemia
Pet Bisis
William Henry
Réderick
Charles
Kensington
Thomas Bradshaw
War Office
William Bowles
Astew
Piddle Hinton
Dorsethire
Andrew
Crew
Efi Ua
Higgon
Hobartton
Pembroke
St David's
John Rugg
Alexander Kelly
Netlecombe
Somerset
Bath and Wells
Jaft
Spital-fields
Mantel Street
Goodmin’s ‘Fields
John Eaton
Dodworth
Bank of England
Matthew Dodsworth
John Dodsworth
Thornton Wal
Cistoms
Sussex
Gbalf
Mtundel
Cuttody
Sun
Firecoffite
Ayith
Sudan
Public Interest: British Navigators and Advenmyers Series
A historic notice advertises a published series on British explorers and seamen with accounts of voyages, shipwrecks, and conquests across Asia Africa and America. It outlines forty numbers forming four octavo volumes, weekly issues with copper plate engravings, and a subscription through J Fuller and booksellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. Dmplest Ieee
Tay
Mae Reap
Wiioe
Willem
Asia
Africa
America
J. Fuller
Blowbladder Street
Cheapside
Great Britain
Ireland
Public Credit and Market Tension in London and Europe
Post S$cript London notes the strain on public credit from silver and gold flows abroad, warns against onerous contract terms, and recalls wartime profiteering risks. It reports on Bedford and Rutland militia suspensions, Stockholm dispatches, Danish hopes to exploit Dutch trade, and the Baltic fleet movements from Texel with Swedish ships Partillion and Adolph Frederick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oedipus
Baron Stackelberg
Baron Duben
Chamber of Commerce
Royal Corgmission
Copenhagen
England
Holland
Republick
Great Britain
Texel
Stettin
Cadiz
Gruner
Stockholm
Adolph Fredérick
Ancient notices mix of marriages deaths and crime in 18th century
An OCR fragment shows a jumble of 18th century items including a marriage entry dated March 11, a death notice for Bertie of Holloway, and Mrs. Shirley, apothecary in Islington. It also mentions a gruesome discovery near Bridewell Bridge, a purse theft at St Paul’s Church Yard, and various casualty tallies. Financial and bread price data from May 1799, plus stock and annuity notes, fill the page.
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Samaria
Alban
Marche
Valle
Ehay
Mysning
Grenich
John Wattkins
Kingion
Herefordshire
Pallimall
Holloway
Mar
Bertie
Bertie, A Young Gentleman of Considerable Fortune. Tuesday Died Mrs. Shirley
St. Paul’s
Nottingham
City of London
Wheaten
Houthold
Wheaten Ate Co
Wheaten Co
India
South Sea
Duirco Consol &R
Navy
London Magazine April 1779 reprints urged by readers
The note reports the April 1779 London Magazine contents including maps of the Rhine and Bergen action, a Quebec fortress account, political pieces on Britain and Holland, discussions on costs and grants, domestic and foreign occurrences, poetry, husbandry, and a reprint of December 1732 issues for readers who lacked sets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Kitchen
Bergen
Quebec
North America
Tias Monee
Comtati
Parliamene
Great Britain
Holland
Haw Jey
Remarés
M. Cu Hammel Cu Monceau
Farher
Tus Son
Hergen
R. Baldwin
Pater-noster
London Magazine
This Day Was Publis'd Price 6d Illustrated Creature
An 18th century newspaper notice advertises a publication priced six pence with an elegant plate of a female zebra in natural colors copied from a living animal, the prince of Wales portrait, a map of the Caribbean, and a view of the ruins of Da na.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ZesRa
Prince of Wales
Caribbee Islands
The Grand Magazine of Universal Intelligence April 1759
An 18th century issue detailing multiple articles. Contents include the Description of the Female Zebra with a copper plate, Political Annals of Europe, American Colonies history, life of Count Schwerin, notes on merchants and rarities, and a catalogue of books and manuscripts for January to March 1999.
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Universal Intelligence
Europe
America
Count Schwerin
Marithal
Joslia
Mary Betsondon
Tor
Monthly Review
Sylvan Mu
Cupid
Mr. Maker
Chloe
Germany
India
R. Gallinhs
London
J.zoey
Jan. Pookfeller
Dustin
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