Diplomatic Signals and Naval News From London and Abroad
Letters from The Hague discuss possible Austrian and British Alliance actions, while Paris and Genoa report ongoing European power plays. Royal Navy updates recount a French fleet engagement, captures, and casualties, alongside notices of notable deaths and local affairs.
Shaftsbury Burgess Chosen In Place Of Deceased
May 11 report from Shaftsbury states Mr. Matthew Merefield was chosen Capital Burgess to fill the vacancy left by the late Mr. Thomas Huffey. A Liverpool dispatch notes 34 Rebel Prisoners from our Castle who were aboard a transport. eight drowned when a ship’s boat ran across a hawser, the victims all handcuffed two by two.
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Britain
Dennis
Centurion
Anson
Warren
East-Indies
le Serieux
le Jason
la Gloire
L’ruby
Ladiamien
le Philibert
L’ Apollon
le Thetis
le Diamant
Grenville
Faulkland
Venlo
Liege
Royal Scots Greys
Ramellies
Audenard
England
Tanner
Mons
Scotland
Order of the Thistle
Doway
Orkney
Orrery
Duke of Marlborough
Poland
George I
Privy Council
John Campbell
Duke of Argyll
North Britain
France
Europe
Dettingen
Marines
Dragoons
Minorca
Eleanor Campbel
James Earl of London
James Viscount Primrose
Cel. Dalrymple
Earl of Harrington
Stapleford
Borlace Warren
Nottingham
Tunbridge- Wells
Kent
Edward
Rofe
Bridewell ‘Hospital
Ben
Monro
Bethlem
Cibber
Kethlem Hospital
Moorfields
Charles.Brinsden
Earl of Clarendon
Lydiard Treagoore
Wilts
Viscount Bolingbroke
Marksbury
Somerset
Riverages
Smith
Hall
Epsom Downs
Riveraggs
Jonathan Belcher
Jersey
Portsmouth
Warwick
Mr. Jones
Exchequer
Ramsay
Deceas
Thomas Cox
Kensington
Ingham
James Atkins
Hatton-Garden
Elq
Hamilton
Duke of Hamilton and
Brandon
Miss Girardot
John Girardot
Tillieux
Greenwich
Ely
Lambert
Windsor
Parsons
Chelsea
Lewisham
Henry Brind
Foster Lane
Peggy Carer
Walter Ernley
Switzerland
Vogthern
Sarzana
Genoa
N. S
Amsterdam
Marseilles
Toulon
Antibes
Brigaoles
Dover
Flushing
Stadtholder, &c. &c
Middleburgh
M. Buffon
Paris
Sieur Villette
Lyons
Royal Library
Sieur de la Garoufte
Quercy
M. Tichernhaus
D. V
Orleans
Country News
Shaftsbury
Matthew Merefield
Thomas Huffey
Chester
Liverpool
Our Castle
Carlisle
York, &c
Charles Gordon
Andrew Gibb
Colin M‘donald
John M‘farland
William Oldham
James M‘kay
Hugh M‘leod
John M‘connery
Parson Adams and the Enbl Nation in a London Review
In a London Review of Transactions from the past years, Parson Adams is praised for virtue yet mocked for forgetfulness. He saves a distressed woman from a ravisher and remains loyal to friends, but his zeal trips over memory about his horse and breeches, revealing a comic portrait of national folly.
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London
Adams
Europe
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Lifoon
Spain
Great Britain
Breda
Count Rosenberg
Duke de Sotto Major
France. Extra of A Letter From the Hague
Vienna
Petersbourg
Assur
Berlin
Russia
Republick
Silesia
Brandenbourg
Versailles
the Hague
Count Saxe
Schulemberg
Provence