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Unsteady Royal Habits and a Midsummer Fireworks Accident
The column relays gossip of royal offshoots, public amusements, and courtly life including Princess Birch Day celebrations, Privy Rooms with private chairs, and a Dowager's sharp critique of Queen Anne. It notes a disastrous fireworks accident under Dr Defaguliers, imports for the royal family, and various society happenings in Bath, Bristol, and London, with obituaries, nominations, and legal notices interwoven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dowager of Marlborough
Queen Anne
C.F
Defaguliers
C. Ail
Prince of Wales
Bristol
Mayor
Childwell
George Smith
Sussex
Richard Tilden
Fenchurch-street
Hastings
Philip Gawne
Caperton
Royal Chapel
St. James’s
Trevor
S J. James's
Princess‘of Wales
Kew
Thomas Lumley Saunderson
Bath
William Irby
Caroline
Louisa
Mary
Duke of Bolton
Tower of London
Earl of Leicester
John Trevithick
Traroe
Borough of Grampound
Cornwall
Philip Hawkins
Deceas
Nesterday
John Dormer
King’s Bench
Westminster
Maz
Julie Fortescue Aland