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Fragmented verse and news from distant ports and fairs
An eclectic item blends satirical verse by Tom Lance with notices and travel-dated dispatches. It mixes literary quarrels, a fable about swans and a dicky bird, and various European intelligence from Warsaw to Leghorn, including court promotions, political maneuvers, and maritime updates from London to Dover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Lance
Holland
Warsaw
Rome
Visconti
Poniatouki
Czerwin
Courland
Branicki
Nijesty
Hinburgh
Gabriel van der Lin
Georgia
Heraclius
Trefibonde
Constantinople
Adrianople
Florence
France
Count de
London
Dover
John Wilkes
Duke of Richmond
Lord Egmont
Admiralty Board
Byron
Portsmouth
Count Seilern
St. James’s Square
Ironmonger’s Hall
William Cracraft
Marklane
Aldgate
Thomas Chalenor
Guildhall
Brass Crosby
Bread-street
Hamburgh
Breslaw
Stockholm
Barbadoes
Martinico