25 Apr 1772
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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 25, 1772
Page
1
From the London Gazette Stockholm April 1s notices that the assembly met once in Plena and nothing of consequence occurred except that the House of Nobles considered Count Taube’s petition to sell his governorship of Gothenburg. After a brief debate the House resolved he may sell his post as other military governors may, under the legal diversion.
April dispatches describe Prussian forces extending in Great Poland and targeting Confederates. They seize prisoners, recruit the best hostages, and take horses and arms, while releasing others. Anhalt leads 4000 troops past Punitz. Kosten surrenders upon sighting the enemy. Reports also note sieur de Grud discovering Homer’s tomb in the Archipelago but the inscription vanishes on exposure to air. Sir Joseph Yorke departs for Helvoet to sail to England with Mr Meddison handling British Court affairs.
The Downs items report Glory and Sea ford remaining. outward-bound ships sail. Antigua frigate Butler bound to Lisbon. Little Ben and Generous Friends docked at Liverpool and Port Louis. Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Goodwill, Susannah, and Commerce listed with origins including Dominica, Alicante, South Carolina, Maryland, and London.
In London yesterday the Rev Robert Carter preached before their Majesties at the Chapel Royal St James's as courtly bustle filled St James's with ministers nobility and gentry. Reports from Stockholm place the Swedish king's coronation May 29 with oath June 1 and France preparing a splendid gift for the monarch. News covers Berlin prayers for the Princess Stadtholder and a grand reception for Queen Dowager Sweden and the Brunswick princess, plus naval preparations and pirate incursions near Dunkirk and Jamaica.
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