France to Madrid Dispatches Death of Don Joseph Patinho
Letters from Madrid dated the 6th instant report the death of Don Joseph Patinho on the 3d in his 76th year. The King mourns and orders his body interred with honors at the Jesuit church in Madrid. The court names Sebastían de la Quadra and the Marquess de Torrenueva to key posts. a War Secretary remains unappointed. The Duchess of Ventadour recovers health as the Dauphin thanks Heaven with rockets. In another note a blast fractures a house, injuring Mrs. Fadle and causing smoke and damage to the premises.
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Etters
Madrid
Don Joseph Patinho
Spain
Indies
Joseph Patinho
Sebastian de la Quadra
Marquess de Torrenueva
Adam
Ventadour
Dublin Gossip and Local Incidents Trace Week in Ireland
News from Dublin reports a Holland commodity sale to Countess of Antrim at Gospel Yard, a Protestant recantation in St Marys Church, a Dover-like execution of a condemned woman in Dundalk, shipwreck tales from Galway, calls for harsher maritime laws, and a thunderstorm incident that damaged a Quaker home near Edenderry.
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Dublin
Robert Kaine
Lurgan
Ardmagh
Countess of Antrim
Gospel Yard
Edmond Butler
Viscount Mountgarret
St. Mary’s Church
Dean Cross
Dundalk
Drogheda
Gallway
England
Coonagh
Edenderry
One Faile
Fire and plunder mark Edinburgh events of nov 9
Historic Edinburgh notice details stock seized at Leith King’s Warehouse including brandy canary soap starch and casks. It also reports royal warrant for guard access to Holyrood palace Wade orders guard placement and a fire at Wade's Canongate lodgings. A journeyman is jailed over an alleged arm in street during Porteous execution aftermath.
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Edinburgh
Leith
Alexander Clerk
Fife
Holyrood-house
Wade
Mitchel the Porcer
Canongate
John Porteous
Two men seized after Watton church robbery in Norwich
John Hall alias Painter and James Blead alias John Johnson alias Black Jack were captured at the Crown in St Stephen's and held in gaol until Watton inhabitants could retrieve them. Their search revealed a firelock and other tools. both claimed smuggling links and were later moved to the Castle Hill gaol.
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Norwich
John Hall
Painter
James Blead
John Johnson
Black Jack
Crown
St. Stephen’s
Watton Church
Johnson
Bury
Lamb
Shipdham
Smyth
Castle-Hill
Marriages and Obits Highlight London Notes of the Day
London social notices record several marriages including Sir William Lowther to Miss Ramsden and Lewis Way to Philadelphia Newnham in Streatham, Surrey. Also reported are deaths of Brigadier Stewart and Captain Legge, with funeral arrangements and a long ecclesiastic sermon excerpt.
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London
William Lowther
Bart
Yorkshire
Ramsden
William Ramsden
John Ramsden
Lewis Way
Stretham
Surrey
Philadelphia Newnham
Nathaniel Newnham
Shirff
Ryder
George Medlicote
Kane
Union Stairs
Wapping
Snee
Capt
Legge
Pancrass
Colfton
Beecham
Crown and Anchor
Arundel-street
Strand
Angel-Court
Snow-Hill
John Danson
Jernegan
Charles Jernegan
Golden Square
Low Layton
Essex
Ecclesiastes
Capcone
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Paris
Ireland
Scotland
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