Plight of Republick to pay full contributions and threats
From Holland Genoa and Turin reports the Republick paying only one million seven hundred thousand genovines of demanded sums. Noblesse retreat to religious houses as pressure mounts. Marquis de Botta pushes for full payment, warning of military consequences if unmet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EE Republick
de Borta
Bank of St. George
Noblesse
Turin
Ventimiglia
Montalban
Chamberry
Provence
Varo
Don Philip
Aix
Petersbourg
Vitzhum
Warsaw
Courland
Republick
Mitrau
Great Oland
Barnardines
Little Poland
Fathers of the Reform
Lithuania
Jesuits College
Stockholm
Vick
Finland
Gopenhagen
Haffelt
Maastricht
Trips
Tirlemiont
S Eiz
Tongres
Faris
Highlihders
Duke of Kchtiell
Poland
Mary Joséphine
Execution of Rebels in York and Brutal Beheading Details
Report from York details the execution of eleven Rebels including George Hamilton Edward Clavering and Daniel Frazier with the hearts and heads displayed. The ceremony was described as orderly though grim with prayers led by Rev. Etty and the decapitations performed on the scaffold. Also noted is a near miss with a French privateer and a Somerset court case about a man who married fourteen wives, to be whipped and imprisoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Voltaire
Spain
Sweden
Denmark
Poland
Prussia
Saxony
Strasbourg
Brett
Provence
New‘s. York
George Hamilton
Edward Clavering
John James Jellens
Daniel Frazier
William Conolly
James Sparks
Charles Gordon
Angus M‘donald
James Maine
Benjamin Mason
William Dempsey
William Crossley
Col. Townley
William Barclay
Grant
Castlegate
Mr. Duet
Tod
James Jellens
Hamilton
Glavering
Everal
Clavering
Mainé
Mason
Maine
Etty
Capt
Frazier
King George
Gordon
Conolly
Micklegate Bar
Carlisle
Hussars
Northumberland
Lord London
Preston-Pans
Duke of ‘Perth
Derby‘shire
Townley
Glenbucket
M‘donald
Glenbucker
David Murray
Yorkshire
Hornsea
George
Horsea
Husaber
Burlington Bay
Chicken
Bath
Taunton
Somerset
Mary Hamilton
Charles Hamilton
Gold
Mary
Mary Price
St. Cuthbert
Wells
Glastonbury
Shipton-Maller
Impri
Fon’d
London notices and social news from the late eighteenth century
In a London paragraph heavy with obituaries appointments and social updates a commander’s death a marriage in the Guards and royal movements are reported. The piece notes Capt Harvey’s marriage to Peggy Tayler daughter of John Tayler and the burial of Mrs Sleorgin keeper of a Flemish trading house. It records royal recovery public appearances the winter relocation to St James’s Palace and the Earl of Harrington’s Ireland appointment as Lord Lieutenant. Admiral Lestock’s arrival and tax official changes are listed along with a Newport Rhode Island death of Benjamin Ellery and Charles Maddox a broker in the City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey
Peggy Tayler
John Tayler
Bridewell
Bethlem
Anne Sleor
Sleorgin
Broad-Street
Soho
St. James’s Church
Westminster
St. James’s Palace
Kensington
Earl of Harrington
Ireland
Earl of Chesterfield
Admiral Lestock Arriv
Portimouthy
Abingdon
Jefferson Miles
Excise Office
Charles Frederick
Elgs
Ord Pane
White
Viscount Weymouth
St. James’s and Hyde-Parks
Wilkin
Kensington Gate
Grosvenor Square Gate
Green
New-England
Newport
Rhode Island
Benjamin Ellery
Eigg
St. Mary Axe
Charles Maddox
Portugal
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