Algerine Xebeques and Barques Infest Seas of Sicily
Yesterday arrived letters from France and Florence report Algerine xebeques and Neapolitan barques raiding the seas around Sicily and Sardinia, with a Spanish ship captured. In Paris Royal Letters Patent establish a Chamber of Vacations to decide suits during the term, and Modena suspends harbour works while a Dutchess shows a court cross.
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France
Leghorn
Sicily
Sardinia
Barbary
Florence
Duke of
Modena
Maffa
Carara
Lavenza
Verfailles
Infanta Dutchers
Parma
Lyons
Antibes
Genoa
Paris
Pontoise
Faid Commission
Jeans
Milan
Lombardy
Aix-la-Chapelle
House of Austria
House of Este
Italy
Turin
Vienna
Swan Creek Tobacco Ship Burnt After Cabin Boy Accident
Annapolis July 26 reports the Swan Capt Clarkton burned at Swan Creek Baltimore County with 390 hogsheads of tobacco on board. Fire started when a cabin boy drew spirits from a hogshead with a candle. boy burned to ashes. The remainder of cargo and ship were damaged as it prepared to sail for London next week. Boston July 30 notes a large fire between twelve and one at Bransdon's Wharf North End shredding several tenements and valuable goods including boards staves mahogany and cordage. a nearby schooner was also affected.
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Annapolis
Maryland
Clarkton
Swan Creek
Baltimore County
London
Athes
Boston
New England
Bransdon’s Wharf
Tea seized near Parkstone by Brownfea Boatmen
Country news reports that the Brownfea Boatmen with a Salt Officer seized about twelve hundred weight of tea in Bourden Sands four miles from here and brought it to the Custom-house. Gloucester notes that the suspected horse thief Pilkinton now identified as George Steel confesses involvement in a murder between Campden and Shipston upon Stour with a plow paddle weapon. Birmingham reports Bailiff Welch killed by Stockley’s blunderbuss fire as Stockley fled after the attempted rescue.
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Pool
Brownfea
Parkstone
Bourden Sands
Gloucester
George Steel
Pilkinton
London
Newcastle
Stockley
To the Author and to the Nation on Law and Governance
A 1753 Letter contrasts Prussia under a capable king with Britain’s costly, tangled laws. The writer laments slow justice, argues for simpler rules, warns against lawyerly obstruction, and urges civic engagement before elections. Includes satirical notices and a postscript on political reform.
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London Evening-Post
Edinburgh
George Burnet
Kemnay
Inverary
James Peacock
Anne Earle
Perth
Plantation News
Virg
Prussia
Britain
Epicurus
Tunis
Algiers
Ottoman Empire
Carlisle
Sam
Sir
Christopher Whitelock
Murely
Harplin St. Paul's
Bohemia
Sambre
Spandax
Gibraltar
Port Mahon
Bath
Richardson
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