Diplomatic Moves Amid Prague, France, and Swedish Shifts
Letter from The Hague reports continuing deliberations of the States General after Prague’s capture by the Austrian faction. It notes a reduced push for a 12,000 man augmentation, proposals for ambassadors to Russia and Dresden, and contested claims by Van H n against Prince William of Heffe Caffel. It mentions Sweden’s potential alignment with Francfort and Russian responses to British demands, with fears of broader coalition shifts. Reports from Copenhagen and Strasbourg discuss engagement limits with France and the Prague garrison joining the Emperor’s service, while Bourgogne fort press and river alterations push French siege efforts at Fribourg.
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Holland
Prague
France
Dresden
M. van H N
Vienna
William of Heffe Caffel
States General
Count de Seinsheim
League of Francfort
Sweden
Francfort
Bremen
Verden
Wiliam
Louis ‘d’Ors
Guneas
Russia
Lord Tystanley
Great Britain
Copenhagen
Titley
Flanders
Maurice of Nassau
Marthal ‘Saxe
Tournay
Marck
Gramamiont
Mentz
Strasbourg
Fribourg
Expedition near Conn in Piedmont siege reported today
Private letters describe trenching at Piedmont near Conn with 1 officer and 4 soldiers wounded on our side and 2 French wounded. Our trenches extend 530 yards, 200 yards from outworks, with heavy bombardment and repeated breaches. Casualties include 12 killed and about 60 wounded on our side. the King of Sardinia remains at Saluces.
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Kalbermatten
Schulemberg
Galicia
M. de Cagegal
Marquess Tripuxi
Merida
Marquess de Las Minas
Sardinia
Saluces
Sarantana
Pentale
Duke of
Arcos
Berlin
Prusfia
Prague
Einfiedel
Schwerin
Egras
Kudweis
Silesia
Poland
Saxony
Brussels
Marshal Wade
Aremberg
Chateau d’Anttein
Sainghin, &c
Amsterdam
Texel
Portsmouth
Hague
Jast
Ratisbon
Earl of Holderneffe
Imperial Hussars
N.S
Lisbon
Nassau
Cronstrom
Ireland Weather Disaster Report From Longford
Ireland Longford report notes a sequence of four very great hurricanes on August 28 with lightning breaking. The fragment references a late August storm event and its meteorological impact in County Longford.
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Ireland
Longford
Racing and birth news from Gloucester and Heighington
Gloucester reports horse racing with four entrants for a fifty Guinea Gentlemen's Subscription Purse and five hunters for a Town Subscription Purse, won by Stradder and Peggy grieves me. Newcastle dispatches Mary Dixon of Heighington in Durham giving birth to her first son after nearly two decades of marriage.
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Gloucester
Duke of Beaufort
Mr Neal
Mr. Bingham
Black Lees
Mr. Greswood
Careless
Black Legs
Prophetic December Plans Stir London Clergy and Royals
In London December looms as a grand prophetical time with judgments foreseen before Christmas. Joan and Henry, notable seers, promise efforts in the Upper and Lower School, while Admiral Gallowin has arrived in Berlin bearing a message from the czarina to the king of Prussia amid looming political concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Chasimas
F—Poly
Joan
Henry
C—rt
Gallowin
Berlin
Hig Miltsefs
Czarina
Pru
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London Evening-Post
the Hague
Conn
Piedmont
James Wynne
Ely
Belfast
Thomas White
Hu. White
Dublin
Arbuckle
John Adamson
David Tew
Deceas
Whitehaven
Troutten
Allamby
Justice Fork
the Common-Pleas
Cope
Singleton
Vesey Coleclough
Cafar Coleclough
Montgomery
John Ong
Miss Callan
Elizabeth Ponsonby
John Ponsonby
Duke of Devonshire
Curragh
Kildare
Molly
Place
Fett
Marmaduke Wyvill
Kate
Ballyconnell
Tory Bay
Donnegal
Liverpool
Richard Nichols
Barbadoes
Athoté
Silvia
Bolton
Poolbeg
Ringfend
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