Wolf-Taming Hero and Monaco Succession Debate
Extracts from letters describe De Grimaldi challenging the Prince of Monaco over succession through a female line. a wood attack by a wolf on Remy Martin near Pautene, who killed the animal with a hedge-bill and saved himself. Amsterdam letters note corn price shifts and a pessimistic view on European peace, predicting a general pacification as bread prices fall across Poland and Friezland influenced markets.
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Paris
de’ Grimaldi
Mans
Monaco
Martin
Remy
Pautene
Joinville
Amsterdam
Poland
Europe
Riots End? County Probes Farm Prices and Food Scarcity
Apr 28 report from St Edmunds Bury notes riots in the county are nearly quelled by Sir Robert Davers and tenants. It reveals three wealthy farmers sending wheat and cattle to France to raise prices, with prosecutions planned. The piece laments the plight of poor families starving as mobs are blamed for unrest.
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France
Shipping News Patchwork of Arrivals and Departures
The notice lists multiple ships and captains, with origins from London, Bourdeaux, Dartmouth, Smyrna, and St Croix. Vessels including the St George Nuir and Glory proceed to Lisbon, while Rotham, Christian, Neptune, and others arrive or anchor at Portsmouth Dublin Waterford and Stangate. Winds blow northeast as crews report arrivals and departures in the downs and at (illegible) ports.
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SHI
PNEW
Deal
St. George
Nuir
St Kit’s
Sam
Dawkins
Carter
Jamaica
Downs
His Majesty
Glory
Antigua
Butler
Lisbon
Rotham
Brooks
Whitehaven
Portsmouth
Dependant
Christian
London
Rhibden
Neptune
Ferguson
Dublin
Munster Lats
Reed
Bourdeaux
Ditto
Jonathan
Hannah
Blair
Newcastle
Barbara
French
Ann
Bird
Dartmouth
Waterford
Jane
Hill
St. ‘Croix
Milford
Susanah
Beade
Smyrna
Stangate Ree
Court News Behind the Scenes at St James’s
Yesterday a messenger arrived with dispatches from Copenhagen as Sir Robert Murray Keith sent updates. A Privy Council met at St James's while Sir Joseph York attended the Levee. The King and successors planned a summer move to Kew. Sardinian and Venetian Ambassadors conferred two hours with the King and Secretaries. The French Ambassador sent three messengers to Paris from Great George Street.
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London
Secretary’ of State
Robert Murray Keith
Copenhagen
St. James’s
Joseph York
Hague
Kew
Great George-street
Paris
Political and commercial notices from an 1771-era London paper
Reports from the Lords and Commons include the Lord Chancellor extending Lord Mansfield’s stay as Speaker briefly, a bill to regulate private madhouses, and ongoing finance for the year. Parisian and Prussian trade friction is noted, with a Prussian indult 33 percent on goods and a French merchant satire of prime cost. Naval and colonial news, weather, and legal cases fill pages, including executions at Hertford and Guildhall wage proceedings.
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Lincoln’s Inn Hall
St. James’s
Lord Mansfield
House of Peers
Hinchinbroke
Dutchess of Argyle
England
House of Commons
West Indies
Asiatic Company
Lord Clive
Paris
Franckfort
Oder
Prussia
Quebec
Yebrakofte
Norfolk
Suffolk
Sicily
Mount
Fatna
France
Spain
Normandy
Jersey
Guernsey
Greenland
Alderney
Old Bailey
Joseph Lunn
Patrick Shields
Martlet
Peter M‘cloud
Joseph Hankey
Poplar
Philip Cratey
Eliz. Hawkins
Jackson’s Alley
Covent-garden
Guildhall
Worcester
Red Ditch
John Baker
Meavy
Devon
Exeter
Michael Bacon
Ryther
York
Nathaniel Forster
Ardleigh
Wormley
Hertford
Southwark
Newcastle
Sunderland
London
Mysterious Alucizs Near Presented Number
A fragmented note hints at near two ed Alucizs in the current number. The text remains obscure, but suggests a placeholder or cipher term tied to a numeric reference and unidentified subjects. Further readable details are not present in the fragment.
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Foreign
Macoa
China
Lifoon
Mungale
Ulbeck
Poonamalu
Madras
Tanjore
Holland
Cuttom House
Margate
Patrick Murphy
Newtoner’s Lane
Judith Whalin
Mturder
Wocky-street
Freetlane
Wood-street Compters
Plumbe
Newgate
Durhamyard
Red- Lyon-Street
White- Chapel
de Grey
Mus Irby
Yestarday
Richmond
Surry
Richard Brown
Life-lane
Margaret ‘Toke
Humephreys
Ware
Rochfort
Bridges-street
Gough
Wellcloses Square
Bengal
Patrick Kinnaird
Lord Kinnaird
Hugh Duke Northumberland
Ireland
King Bryan
Earlie
John Huddlestone Wynne
America
Ilustrious Perens
Annals of Ireland
Edward Cox
George Riley
Curzon-street
May Fair
John Wheble
Pater-noster-Row
Great-Britain
Italy
Germany
Denmark
Sweden
John Beil
Strand
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