Turbulent frontier reports from the Veldt and Bosnia
Dispatches describe Cossacks and Calmucks marching toward the Crimea to intercept Tartars and attack 800 mounted men with 300 killed and captives taken. Terrestrial alerts note Russian–Turkish tensions, fortifications in Bosnia, and preparations for potential congress at The Hague amid rumors of a Persian–Turkish peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esterday
Lard
Crim
Crafnofzokow
Don
Confitewody
Malocznyewody
Spor
Vienna
Count Beneval
Porte
Constantinople
Bosnia
Persia
Christendom
Tat
Saave
Maglai
Widdin
Timach
Servia
Bulgaria
Wargenau
Hungary
d’Uhlefeldt
States General
Hague
Berlin
M. Brackel
Synod's Dunkeld plan and a rogue bell ringer tale
From Perthshire comes a report of the Perth and Stirling Provincial Synod insulted by the populace and seeking civil protection after prior discipline at Suizling. In Edinburgh a Bell-Ringer John Crawford boasted of aiding John Porteous’s case, trapped soldiers in a kirk, escaped, alerted authorities, and was later jailed by the City Guard. The Duke of Athole and other figures were given the freedom of the city amid a gun salute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Edinburgh
Perthshire
Perth
Stirling
Suizling
Ebenezer Erskine
Dunkeld
John Crawford
John Porteous
Duke of
London Notes on Clergy Appointments and Gentry Travel
The Rev Mr Gybbon is presented to St Dunstan in the West by Joseph Taylor to fill a vacancy after Rev Dr Grant's death. M Ernest becomes Page of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales. The Earl of March sails for Bath then Dover and France for two years. The Earl of Marchmont seeks health in the South of France with guardian Earl of Haddington. Sir John Thompson appoints Rev Mr Drew as his Chaplain for the Mayoralty. Rev Mr Hill receives a Brecon prebend. Stephen Perry of Wilmington near Dartford dies, formerly Sheriff nominee.
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Mr. Gybbon
Bridewell
Joseph Taylor
St. Dunstan
Grant
M. Ernest
Princess of Wales
Earl of Marchmount
Bath
Dover
France
Earl of Marchmont
Scotland
Earl of Haddington
John Thompson
Drew
St. Margaret Pattens
Roadlane
Joseph Hill
St. David’s
Brecon
Stephen Perry
Wilmington
Dartford
Kent
Esy
Kensington Messenger Brings News and Obituaries
Monday night a royal messenger arrived at Kensington with letters for the queen, but no fixed time for a reward to England is set. The week also brings the death of Mr Edwards, a wholesale brandy merchant worth £20,000, burial of Mrs Ditcher aged 106, and the funeral of Col. Edmund Defifcher from St James's Place to Battersea Church attended by noblemen. Further notices include Edward Harvey of Combe Ely to be buried at Hempstead, Clifton Hall preparations for the Duke of Leeds’s birthday, Duke of Kingston’s return from abroad, and remarks on bishops, Georgia envoy James Oglethorpe, a banker marriage, and naval appointments on Eltham and changes at Greenwich. Prices for corn and grains are listed in Gloucester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanders
Kensington
England
Tower-street
Edwards
Pancrafg
Ditcher
Tottenham Court Road
Edmund Defifcher
St. James’s Place
Fulham Bridge
Battersea Church
Earl of Clincar
Hempstead
Hertford
Yorkshire
Clifton Hall
Duke of Leeds
Duke of Kingston
Arlington-street
France
Earl of Cholmondeley
Dutchy Court of Lancaster
Temple
Wallington
Baldock
Hertfordshire
James Oglethorpe
Georgia
Philip Hollingworth
Lombard-street
Hollingworth
Maiden-lane
Covent-Garden
Evans
Greenwich
Guiney
Cornwall
Gloucester
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London Evening-Post
Petersbourg
London
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