Genoa dispatches reveal unrest over Milanese treaty actions
News from Genoa on September 3 reports unease in the Republic over the recent Empress Queen and Duke of Modena accord regarding Milanese affairs. Regiments are being completed, deserters are being enlisted from Alexandria and Tortona, and cannon remounting proceeds near the sea. Grimaldi is expelled from Corsica while a successor is awaited. unrest in the island grows with male contents seeking Imperial protection or Tuscan annexation. A misunderstanding among leaders is noted, and Colgn reports in Stockelwagen that a fire destroyed about sixty houses.
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Alexandria
Tortona
M. Grimaldi
Corsica
Peron
Nunza
Tuscany
Vienna
M. Gafforio
Colgn
Stockelwagen
Bergues
Betts Installed Rector of Shellanger Church
In Norwich of September 22 the Rev. Mr. George Betts was instituted to the rectory of Shellanger in the county on the presentation of the Earl of Efingham, following the death of the Rev. Mr. Evans. Early yesterday three smugglers and a Bastardy prisoner escaped the Castle by a rope from the battlements to the shire house roof, then down a ladder to the ground and fled.
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Country News
Norwich
George Betts
Shellanger
Earl of
Britons urged to defend liberties and elect virtuous Christians
A letter tone criticizes corruption and ministerial overreach, urging Whigs and Christians to unite at the next general election. It warns of Jewish influence, calls for honest representation, and condemns debasement of liberty by taxes, perjury, and depoliticized obedience.
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Dunkirk
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Admiral Knowles
M. de Montesqueiu
Rome
Lacedemon
Carthage
M.de Montesqueiu
Sam
Britannicus
Epigram on Dunstan lineage and faith versus politics
A verse from Kent dated September 22 mocks Dunstan the Elder as more pious than civil and Dunstan the Younger as ready to ally with the Devil and vote for a Jew. The poet proposes reversing the sign and notes Satan may claim the New Saint by the Note.
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Dunstan the Younger
Satan
Kent
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