Intrigue and dispatches amid late London society
A thin St James's gathering features the Earls Rochford Suffolk and the Duchess of Beaufort as Lady Mary Somerset is presented to the King. News from Nantucket to Gibraltar details military moves, armaments, and frontier threats, with reports on naval actions, postal dispatches, and court notices.
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St. James’s
America
Earl of Rochford
Gage
Putman
Nantucket
West-Indies
Ticonderoga
Carleton
Boston
Neptune
Dover
Gen. Gage
Secretary of State
London
French Nobility, Ministers in Flux Amid Royal Changes
Paris reports a sweeping reorganization of the ministry under King Louis XVI. The Count de Clermont Tonnerre is elevated to Duke and Peer, serving as constable at the coronation. Rumors say Malefherbes may become chancellor, Maupeou to resign, and Conty’s pushback looms. The Duke d Orléans and Prince de Condé tighten finances, seeking cost reductions and life annuities reassessment.
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Paris
Count de Clermont Tonnerce
France
Rheims
de Malefherbes
de Maupeou
Prince de Conty
Duke d’Orléans
Prince de Condé
Prizes for Latin Prose Awarded to College Students
Cambridge reports the sixteen prizes of fifteen guineas for Latin prose awarded to Sandiford of Sidney College Mathias of Trinity College and Seale of Christ College. York notes heavy rains ended farmer drought fears improving barley and wheat prospects may lower prices. Leeds records Cumberland’s early harvest progress with barley oats and wheat ripening on Humphry Henhouse’s Netherhall estate.
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Country News
Cambridge
Richard Croftes
Marquis of Granby
University
Sandiford
Sidney College
Mathias
Trinity College
Seale
Christ College
York
Leeds
Cumberland
Humphry Henhouse
Netherhall
Military officers join American Army near Boston
Newport May 29 Major Sherburne and Capt Topham with an armed company marched from this town to join the American army stationed near Boston for the defence of Americas liberty. New York June 5 A Boston letter reports a serjeant of the 65th regiment died after a cartridge making accident with his pipe. Another Boston letter estimates the whore loss at about 40000 sterling.
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New England
New York
Jersey
Long Island
Atlantic Ocean
Delaware
Cheatapeak
Maryland
Virginia
Carolinas
Georgia
Offeer
Gibraltar
Europa Guard
Algiers
Carthagena
Guards
King’s Own Regiment
Jamaica
Hispaniola
Whitehaven
Molly
Mitchinson
Norfolk
Alexandria
Congress
Quebec
Waitehaven
Con- Biss
Lowden
Liverpool
New-York
John
Smith
Dublin
Express
England
Downs
Friendship
Fergus
Government
Montreal
London
Plymouth
Hammoare
Ireland
Gosport
Spithead
Deptford
Enterprize
Streights
Chatham
Parry
Antigua
Gibralter
Tris
Cruize
Portsmouth
Woolwich
Sheerness
America
New York Gazette
Newport
Sherburne
Topham
Boston
Americas
65Th Regiment
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Lord North
North America
Bay of Fundy
Cape Sable
Casco
Townsend
Fremiere
Fort St. John
James Hore
Nicholas Moore
Richard Soaper
William
Royal Highness
Wandworth
Westminter-bridge
Aurora
Parkes
Thames
Smith’s Gardens
His Majesty’s Court of Exchequer
Sidney Stafford Smythe
Carlisle
Doctors -Commons
Betterworth
Christ-church
Newgate-street
Calvert
Loveday
Harris
Wynne
Oxford
Milles
Queen’s
Bragge
New College
Hart
Christ Clurch
St. Paul’s Cathedral
St. Peter’s
Rome
Mrs. Rudd
Henrietta Alice Perreau
William Adair
Messrs. Drummonds
Sir Thomas Frankland
Thomas Frankland
Monmouth-street
Whitechapel
Melard
Maresep
Reading
Berks
Sterty
Miss Campbell
William Camppell
Headly Hope
Dasham
Swansea
Glamorganshire
Jane Matthews
Franklin Matthews
Ramsgate
Miss Griffith
Walter Griffith
Windsor
Lowe
Mr. Lowe
Bristol
John Dellaval
John Huffey Delaval
Walford
119Th Regiment of Foot
Islington
Oliver
Butcher-Row
J’emple-Bar
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