Prisoner treated as friend after envoy visit sparks embassy clash
An incident at a colonial outpost led to a British consul and Captain Foster seeking redress after the governor dismissed him as a prisoner and demanded no further action beyond fulfilling a royal order. The affair drew rapid official alarm, with reports to Sir Benjamin Keene and calls in England for justice while noting broader European tensions and maritime losses.
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Goldsworthy
Benjamin Keene
Foster
England
France
Spain
Europe
Fraternity Meeting at the Raven Shrewsbury in October
The Gentlemen of the Fraternity of the True Blues are summoned to meet at the Raven in Shrewsbury on Tuesday October 18. TheHounds go out Wednesday and night assembly follows. A brown gelding theft report from Peterborough cites a man described as 40, 5 4, brown complexion, with pocket crimson ferret silk.
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Plymouth-Dack
Plymouth
Winchester Buthhel
Chatham
Francis Drake
Bess
Duke of Cumberland
Harwich
London Bridge
Kensington
Electorate of Hannover
Britannick
Herenhausen
Electorate of Hanover
Houthold
Rochester
Macy
New England
London
Brest
Couzens
Philadelphia
Jamaica
Friendship
Gowan
Boston
Kitt’s
Hispaniola
Beckford
Rotterdam
Bilboa
Goodwin Sands
Lot
Deal
Skipton
West Riding of
Yorkshire
A&m
Northampton
Syme
Fairbiugh
St. James’s Church
Philip Clark
Strand
Cealax
Jermyn Street
Dge
Hertfordshire
Biz
William Gobb
Fraternity of the
TRUE
A - Blues
Raven
Shrewsbury
N.B
Peterborough
James Olive
Wafely Bridge
Stafford
John Dunn
Christopher Watson
George Port
Thomas Osborne
Joseph Shipton
Gray’s Inn
Seock
W. Shropshire
Mogens
Exeter
Cambridge
Eton
T. Osborne’s
New Bond Street
Hf Andl Ap
Heneage Finch
Winchelsea
John Creyke
Chapmen
Jay’s-Inn
Empress Dispatches Army for Livonia and Silesia
Yesterday reports from Holland and Flanders detail new Imperial orders as Empress Victoria plans for potential throne vacancy. Marshal Apraxia is to reallocate troops to Memel and frontier posts while troops threaten Silesia, with Vienna and Naples noting regimental expansion and ports closed to English ships.
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Holland
Flanders
Peterbourgh
Livonia
Apraxia
Fruffia
Nigwien
Memel
Silesia
Naples
Madrid
Vienna
Prussia
Glaz
Ibrictet
Ratisbon
Breslau
Berlin
Aix-la-Chapelle
Sicha
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Lane
Fleet-fircer
Eately
Litbon
Llness
James
Berbrown
Puesday
Brewer
Elizabeth
Church-Hole
Lottery Office
Lottery
Whitehall
William Warburton
Bristol
Thomas Chamberlayne
Boankrupts
Thomas Rix
Stanfield
Norfolk
Glover
Topham’s
Red Lion
Barnet
Barlow’s
Harfield
Whittington’s
Swan
Stevenage
James TaveBort
d’Antin
Lewis Erasmus
Curtton
Harft
Wettfinry
Salop
Shrembury
Meyrick
Thomas Harris
Leominster
Hereford
Birmingham
Warwick
Meir
Lloyd and Pardoe
Lincoln’s Inn New-Square
Mgr
Homer
Suttoin-Coldheld
Manwaring
Roserto Hrath
Thomas Finch
Wormer-Lane
Hammersmith
Deceas
Aéton Road
Shepherd’s Bath
Wornier
Annam
Kensington Parish
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