Prussia and Russia Movements Reported in Dispatches
From Konigsberg to Dublin and Dublin to the public, notices describe Russian detachments moving toward Vilna and Prussia sending forces into Lithuania. Other items note Admiral Holbourne and a fleet with fifty five transports, prizes taken by Bedford privateer, and a commission for a surgeon on Handasyde's regiment.
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Konigsberg
Vilna
Lebwald
Lithuania
Embden
Dresden
Prussia
M. Mitchell
Highlanders march from Glasgow to Port Patrick for Ireland
Edinburgh dated April 30 reports the Second Battalion of Highlanders under Col Montgomery leaving Glasgow to embark for Ireland. Colonel Frazer's Battalion to march next week. Also noted is the death yesterday of Mr James Hamilton of Oliverton aged eighty two, an advocate, at Bainfield.
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Scotlawn
Edinburgh
Highlanders
Col. Montgomery
Glasgow
Port Patrick
Ireland
Frazer
Bainfield
James Hamilton
Oliverton
To the Author and the Crown's Unity in Gracious Strategy
A 1757 London letter reflects on virtue and vice amid public life. The writer urges unity, criticizes court sycophants, and imagines an administration guided by economy and virtuous ministers. He pleads for harmony to strengthen England's country interests.
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England
Duff
Jay
Britannia
Britain
Pitt
Virtue
Serjeant Davy
Mr. Pitt
Legge
City of
Exeter
Fowit
Exeter City honours Pitt Legge with Freedom of the City
Thursday reports that Exeter agreed to admit William Pitt and Henry Bilton Legge to the Freedom of the City as a public testimonial of esteem for their service. Pitt and Legge respond with gratitude, noting their commitment to royal duties and public happiness amid national distress.
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William Pitt
Henry Bilton Legge
Court of Exchequer
Serjeant
Davy
Bens. Heath
Pitt
Exeter
Mr. Legge
Norrow
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London
Subidies
Newmarket
Noblemen and Gentlemen
Lord Chedworth
Duke of Hamilton
Babraham
James Lowther
Mr. Blake
Matthew Featherstone
William Woolfley
Mr. Vernon
Lord Gower
Mr. Curzon
Sir John Moore
Duke of Devonshire
Lord Orford
Pickle
Mr. Swimmer
Burton
Lord March
Fanns
Shaftoe
Mary Scott
Aawilew
Wentworth
Comet
Mr. Panton
Swinburn
Croft
Lord Rockingham
Vernon
Forrester
Mr. Williams
Richard Grosvenor
Hutton
Germany
Bohemia
East Frizeland
Portsmouth
Downs
Lambton
America
Windsor
Faulkner
Skelton
St. George
Callis
Spithead
St. Helen’s
Dunkirk
Lancaster
Bayne
Smith
Scarborough
Greyhound
Harrison
Falk
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