Ambassadors at Constantinople and London Notices
From Venice May 4 the British and Dutch ambassadors met the Grand Signor after leaving Constantinople. The Briton praised mediation as peaceable, the Hollander avoided mentioning peace, and the Grand Signor accepted mediation for friendship. London reports Capt. George Clinton named Commodore at Lisbon. Dispatches note imprisonments, oaths, and numerous local deaths, fires, and crimes, including robberies and trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Ottoman Empire
Everard Fawlkener
Mynheer Kalkeen
Asaph
Doctors of the Law
Death of Hon. Charles Read Former Mayor and Official
Philadelphia reports the demise of the Hon. Charles Read in his first year of age after a long illness. Read served as mayor and sheriff of the city, representative for the county, judge of the Vice Admiralty, council member, Loan Office commissioner, and Port of Burlington collector. His extensive public roles marked a notable career in public service.
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Mayle
Exchange
Haydon
Feverton
Leton
Suffolk
King’s Stairs
Tower Wharf
Dorset-Stairs
Greenwich
London-Bridge
Eustace Budgell
Orrery
Mr. Dobney
Islington
Clerkenwell Church-yard
Epsom- Downs
Mr. Dyer
Frolick
Royston
Hertford
Red-Lion Inn
Justice Lee
Court of King’s Bench
Court of Common-Pleas
John Garth
Richard Corbet
Deceas
Vine Street
Westminster
Churchill
St. John the Evangelist
Nairnhouse
Perthshire
James Nairn
Edinburgh
James Rochead
Inverleith
John Rochead
Foot Chards
Plantation News
Philadelphia
Charles Read
Burlington
New Jersey
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The
London Evening-Post
Holland
Venice
London
George Clinton
Earl of Lincoln
Lisbon
Medley
Alexander Wilson
Richard Annefly
Earl of
Anglesea
Arthur Earl of
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
Aldersgate Ward
Admiral Stewart
Towi
Chatham
Sackville-street
Beard
Biddiford
Flamborough Head
Sir John Norris
Charing-Cross
Bury
Issu
Dé Purfer
Duncomb
Hountlow-Heath
Feltham
Hounslow-Heath
Turpin
Epping Forest
Bishop’s Stortford
Hacer
Brasdy
Farnham
Romney Marth
Kent
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