War Preparations and Royal Actions Reported in May Dispatches
The May 15 dispatches from Vienna, Petersbourg, and Oxford recount the Emperor’s firm war stance against the Ottoman Porte with a large Russian army, four Hungarian corps, and extensive engineering support, plus royal appointments, a Liverpool insolvency bill outline, courtroom verdicts, and various royal and clerical moves across England. The notes cover the foundation of Radcliffe Library, tech and trade seizures on the Sussex coast, and a missing Nottingham murder inquiry alongside church organ trials and export bids to Portugal and Spain.
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Porte
Petersbourg
Bernelay
Hungary
Pigram
Ryé
Sussex
Joop
Arthur Betterley
Chelea
Buenbois-Ayres
Africa
South-Sea
Buenos Ayrés
Nova Colonia
Pértuguéze
River of Plate
Buennos- Ayres
St. Dunstan’s Church
Jordan
Green
Robinson
Portugal
Spain
Cadia
Holland
St. Mary Whitechapel
Glouester
Middleton
Horrid Devon murder and a sunken London life brights in letters
Letters from Exeter report a brutal murder at Hart-down Devon where John Collings decapitated Jane Upcott and fixed her heart on a spar-hook before being jailed that night. Other notices recall Lady Buckworth’s sudden Surrey death and a string of society losses, with accidents at Namptwich and a sailor’s fatal fall from a Tower pinnacle. A Barbadoes shower spares the sugar canes while a stormy harvest prognosis and a Bath death close the column.
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London
Exeter
Hart-down
Devonshire
Jane Upcott
Alpington
John Collings
Ken
Thatcher
Sheen
Richmond
Surrey
Buckworth
John Buckworth
Bart
John
Hiccocks
Temple Church
Hall
Earl of Halifax
Namptwich
Boston
Lincolnshire
Barbadoes
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Leiter
Vienna
Oxford
Felix Faustumque
Carolo Comite de
Arran
Cancellario
Stephano Nibletti
T.P. Vice-Cancellario
Thoma Paget
Johanne Lind
A. M. Procuratoribus
Plaudenti Indique
Carolus Noel Somerset
Johanes Verney
Gualterus
Wagstaff Bagot Baronettus
Edwardus Harley
Edwardus Smith
Jast
King’s Bench
Westminster
Baptist
May
Ely
Charlotte May
High Court of Chancery
Charles May
Thomas Secker
Bristol
Theodore
Corsica
Bark of
Winchester
James Barbon
Deceas
Gibraltar
Southampton
Albemarle-treet
Clerkenwell
Essex
Thomas Railton
Pool
Dorsershire
Air. Torbuck
Mr. Moore
Swanidge
Holand
Ryswick
Yast
France