News from Europe and Fronts Across May 5 173? Summary
Messages from Dantzick Prague Brussels Paris report post arrivals, naval movements, and court news. Elements include fresh assurances toward neutrality, the election of Count Seinsheim as Prince-Bishop of Bamberg, Marshal Brown’s tour with Baron Netolitzky and upcoming HQ transfer to Budin, and Duke of Württemberg’s expected arrival. Also notes French bombardment doubts, Bentheim occupation, Embden preparations, Dache’s squadron sailing to Port Orient, and the death of Pierre de Coulon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neucenberg
Count Seinsheim
Wurtzburgh
Bamberg
Prague
Marshal Brown
Baron Netolitzky
Buntzlau
Konigsgratz
Damien
Guillemain
Desart
Paris
Prince of Conde
Duke of Orleans
Frederick Jerome de Roye de la Rochefoucault
France
Bourges
Order of the Holy Ghost
Rome
Rsth
Reform and Truth Amid Public Corruption Reflections
A long discourse condemns public corruption and lying as threats to society. It argues reform starts with common sense, warns rulers to curb deceit, and highlights a Norwich vote honoring Pitt and Bilton for prudent governance and economy. Reports from Portsmouth, Antigua, Rome, Bristol describe naval movements, prizes, Privateers, and wheat prices impacting the economy.
Corke and Dublin Gentry Arrive as Riot News Spreads
Ireland dispatches report Admiral Holbourne General Hop ton and others arriving from the fleet to Corke. In Dublin the Curragh King’s Plate winner is announced as William Warren of Black Horse. A wheat ship arrives from Spain with 3000 barrels. Rioters in Wexford and town dwellers seize peas and meal at the Market Hall. A Riot of women armed with broom sticks and cabbage stalks pelts fore forecourts and loots vessels’ running gear, dispersed by rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorke
Duke of Cumberland
Prussia
Rome
Antigua
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Iland
Streights
Hector
Achilles
Vaillant
Soubize
Polacco
Saunders
Gibraltar
Louisa
Bristol
Plymouth
Bourdeaux
Cape Breton
Missisippi
Czsar
Bordeaux
Canure
Scotland
Deptford
George Calbreath
Count de Gifors
Giles de Lemouvell
St. Maloes
Falmouth
Conforts
Calbreath
King of
Brest
Tuscany
Goddard
Mermaid
Smith
William
Betty
M‘ardell
Zant
Carthagena
Taffet
Joseph’ Harnet
Majorca
London
Marseilles
Barnard
Phoenix
Jersey
America
England
Blank
Koningsberg
Arriv
Hull
Ireland
Corke
Admiral Holbourne
Hopton
Dublin
William Warren
Wexford
Fire destroys Kilbishy House papers and furniture
In Edinburgh on May 3 a fire at Kilbishy House, seat of the Earl of Crauford, gutted the mansion on Saturday night. The blaze claimed the family papers and much of the furniture, though the estate house was saved. Glasgow mourns the death of John Brown Fig. Yate, Provost of Glasgow, who passed away Thursday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edinburgh
Glasgow
John Brown
Kilbishy
Earl of Crauford
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London Evening-Post
Flanders
Dantzick
Pyrate
Pertons
Norwich
William Pitt
Matthew Goss
Gofs
Marine Society
Portmouth
Spithead
Prince
Osborne
St.George
Calli
Monmouth
Gardiner
Storr
Montague
Greyhound
Harrison
Lisbon
Cadiz
Windsor
Faulkener
Lambton
Cork
Guernsey
Milbank
Admiral Osborne
Devonthixe
Essex
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