Mail from Holland reports convoy arrival at Corsica
From Leghorn May 2 advices say the convoy sailing from Antibes has reached St Fiorenzo Corsica with 75 ships carrying six battalions of troops and large stores. Eight battalions follow, already embarked at Antibes. Madrid May 5 Keene returns from Asanjuez to open definitive treaty talks with Great Britain. expect open tomorrow but disputes loom over visiting English ships in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antibes
St. Fiorenzo
Corsica
Madrid
Keene
Asanjuez
Great Britain
America
Buenos Ayres
Dierina
Hungary
Wallis
Marquess de Mirepoix
Constantinople
Hunary
Tme
Paris
Assur
Murder of Bastard Child Leads to Burial in Garden
Court records show Mary West of Ilton near Burford confessed to the murder of her illegitimate child and buried it in her garden. From Salisbury reports two highwaymen were jailed for robbing a clergyman of two guineas and silver near Totterdown House and an attempted robbery near Lavington, with a pistol shot fired and the horseman struck.
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Oxford
Our Castle
John Lenthal
Eigg
Mary
Ilton
Burford
Salisbury
Totterdown House
Lavington
Earl of Fingall
Kingdom of Ireland
Flanders
Harwich
Westiminster Abbey
Bow-Lane
Cheapside
Daniel Phillips
Cordwainers Ward
Browning
Porters Block
West Smithfield
Burchett
House of Commons
Hutton
Windsor
Terrick
Rolls
Newgate
King’s Bench Bar
Westminster
Hammersmith
Knightsbridge
Kensington
Tothill-fields
John Lewis
Col
St. Kit’s
Leeward Islands
Back-Stairland
Ifand
Royal plans and court appointments in London
London notes detail palace readiness for royal receptions, new governorships at Flint Castle, Navy commissions replacing Byng and Phillipson, and clerical exchanges. Also reported are deaths and interments, royal visits to Greenwich, a marriage, Society surgeries cases, Stocks Market work, and various local notices amid a broader glimpse of 18th century court life.
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London
Kensington
Hampton Court
Thomas Moftyn
Flint
Flint Castle
Roger Moftyn
John Phillipson
Shoreham
Robert Byng
Lfy
Barbadoes
Mx. Roffington
Mr. Phillipson
Mx. Purvis
George Purvis
Roffington
Hornsey
Middlesex
Jacob Coulter
Etty
Walmer
Hornfey Church
Prince and Princess of Wales
Greenwich
Lord Baltimore
Drury-Lane Playhouse
Baron Stambourg
Hanover
St. James’s
Danvers Osborne, Bart
Anne Montague
Earl of Halifax
Amelia
John Wolcott
Penryn
Cornwall
Anne Thompson
Ambrose Thompson
Royal Society
Crane Court
Bromfield
Stocks- Market
John Croffe
Leftwithiel
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
London Evening Post
Holland
Leghorn
Reading
Worcester
Severn
Canterbury
Dover
Country News
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