Skirmish and Engagement on the Lower Rhine Report
Dispatches from Hague describe actions on the 14th to 19th Instant between French forces under Marquis de Castries and Allied troops commanded by the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick. Casualties and losses are reported on both sides, with notable feats by the Regiment of Auvergne and captures of cannon. The English general Holborn is said to be killed. the Hereditary Prince lifted the siege of Week and retreated. Solikoff and Daun capture positions reported at Lifflau and Sorgau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hague
Lower Rhine
Marquis de Castries
Prince of Brunswick
Rhinberg
Fischer
M. de Castries
Auvergne
Goco Mer
Holborn
Port News Arrivals and Movements at Sea
Port News from Falmouth reports multiple arrivals and sailings including Weazel Sloop from Plymouth and a Transport bound to Penzance for Algerines. Wednesday saw Conqueror and Melanipe arrive from the Bay, with Adventure Peggy and Raftillion also docking. Continued bustling activity lists numerous light victualers and ships bound for Portsmouth Dublin Plymouth and other destinations, with wind WSW.
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Port News
Falmouth
Plymouth
Penzance
Algerines
Peggy
Phmouth
His Majesty
Conqueror
Melanipe
Bay
Hopewell
Loveden
Diamond
Nalsau
Blake
Sprigs
Parker
Portsmouth
MacAuley
Lion
Wigan
Morris
Dublin
Mercury
Jones
Carmarthen
Wills
Pool
Supply
Lyon
Molly
Smith
Union
Rogers
Bristol
S. W. Deal
Meeting in Oxford backs old county interest at election
A large meeting of the Friends of the late Lord Wenman and Sir James Dashwood in Oxford resolved to support the Old Interest of the county at the next general election. In Norwich yesterday, Lord Beaufort was buried at Oriel College. A Rev. Mr Cox married Miss Croke in this place. A Norfolk fire destroyed a barn and several outbuildings at Samuel Fenning's in Shimpling, caused by lodgers lighting pipes, with 2301 damage. A young servant of Mr Kiddle at Sprowston died after consuming poisoned bread to harm Jamie Mite. she died a few days later.
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Oxford
Lord Wenman
James Dashwood
Barr
Duke of Beaufort
Oriel College
Cox
All- Souls College
St. Martin's
Noravich
Willian Simmonds
Redgrave
Botesdale
Suffolk
Rowland Holt
Samuel Fenning
Shimpling
Dickleburgh
Norfolk
Kiddle
Sprowston
Demise of the King Prompted State Officials Assembly
Report notes rapid gathering of Great Officers of State upon the King’s demise. Pitfit informs the monarch at Kew of the event. Mention of the body’s embowelling and the royal couple’s embalming follows, reflecting court procedures after the death.
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London
Pitfit
War Office dispatches ships for Portmouth expedition
Reports from the period detail orders to administer oaths to troops at Portsmouth destined for an expedition. The Queen of Spain’s death is noted, with Dutch mails confirming the event. A second engagement near the Lower Rhine yields French losses, taken officers, and colors with cannon as spoils. News includes naval losses, Danish troop shifts, and weather observations in Northumberland.
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War Office
Portmouth
Spain
Yorke
Prince of Brunswick
Lower Rhine
Marquis de Castries
Hulfen
Elbe
Denmark
Holstein
Copenhagen
Prince Henry
Prussia
Breslau
Compton-street
Soho
Mamazet
Ephraim the Jew
Saxony
Francfort
Northumberland
Holy Island
Royal Navy of
England
Fish
St. Eustatia
Pickering
Liverpool
Newfoundland
St. John’s
Plymouth
Ireland
Bay of Quiberon
Spithead
Concord
Sutton
Diadem
Torrington
Amity
Gockerel
Hull
Stockholm
Duke D’ayen
Dunkirk
Barbarian achievements and military reports from distant fronts
The dispatch describes robberies by Austrians and Saxons at Charlottenburgh Schonhausel and Fredericksfeld, praise for Ruffian Generals Tottleben and Bachmann, and Prince Esterhaupt, plus troop movements of Prince Eugene, Werter, Daun, Lafcy, Wirtemberg, and Brandenburgh. It notes sieges, surrenders, fresh headquarters, and naval incidents near Dunkirk and Boulogne with ships damaged and crews saved.
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Tottleben
Bachmann
Esterhart
Potzdam
Charlottenburgh
Cardinal Polignac
House of Brandenburgh
Schonhausel
Fredericksfeld
Charles
Eugene of
Wirtemberg
Brandenburgh
Belzig
Palasky
Mecklenburgh
Werter
Dutchy
Malchin
Ruderslorff
Willemberz
Prussia
Dresden
Meiffen
Torgau
Marshal Daun
Neuland
Lauban
Count Lafcy
Jutterback
Duke of Wirtemberg
Hall
Halberstadt
Prince of
Brunswick
M. de Castries
Rhinverg
Dunkirk
Boulogne
Hague
Franctort
Casfel
Ferdinand Iil
Rumors on Northwest Passage and World Events
London reports on Canadian belief in a possible Northwest Passage to the Indies via which Vecfels might pass from Europe to the South Seas. Skeptical of Indian intelligence, British officials see little use in full inquiry. Also noted are a Nancy treatise by a crowned head, savages using bark of a white tree for venom withdrawal, a fire at Philipstadt, and a powder magazine explosion at Gaeta. The Hanover frontier notes severe distress with agricultural subsistence nearly exhausted.
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London
Canada
Vecfels
Europe
Nancy
Ruth
Stanis- Laus
Poland
Lorrain
North America
Stockholm
Philipstadt
Warinia
Gaeta
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Country News
Cronstadt
Peter Dobbins
Helena
Walsh
Gibraltar
Marseilles
Holland
Lusatia
Tim
Dialmansdorff
Baruth
Berlin
Marshak Daun
Bautzen
Magdeburgh
Czernicheff
Lafcy
Flirstenwalden
Spandsu
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