Polyphemus replaced Pan in Capitol vestible tale
Dispatch from Rome reports Abbe Visconti convincing the Duke of Gloucester that a statue in the Capitol Museum represents Polyphemus the Cyclops rather than the God Pan. The Cyclops’ single eye is obscured, delaying identification. Also noted are Berlin and Cracow letters on diplomacy and wartime refugees.
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Duke of Gloucester
Capitol
Visconti
Pan
Poliphemus
Ulysses
Berlin
M. Burnet
Potzdam
London
Gruck
Agyle Donné
Court notes and gossip from Lord North's Downing Street meeting
London reports a Wednesday council at Lord North's house discussing Danish Queen's fate, political maneuvers with France and Prussia, naval orders, and parliamentary business. Also includes royal court sightings, charity feasts, racing results, crime trials, marriages, deaths, and local notices.
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Lord North
Downing Street
Copenhagen
Great Britain
Paris
Denmark
Zell
Meffatina
Lord Mansfield
House of Peers
Britain
West Indies
Scotland
House of Commons
House of Lords
Stockbridge
Hants
Richard Worge
Chiltern
Treasury
Princess Dowager of Wales
Draper’s Hall
Throgmorton-street
Earl of Dartmouth
Lord Willoughby de Broke
Madraés
East Indies
Excerpt From Countery News On Sheep Eating Cave Plunder
Exeter April 25 A man named Arthur Kelly reports his dogs killed a sheep near a wood and the hunters found a cave with the remains and furniture of intruders. A man was seized and a woman fled. Numbers of Kelly’s sheep parts were found in another cave and the man was sent to Exeter Castle. Extracts note the caves as hideouts for plunderers. York April 28 Joan Josts 103, widow, dies at Guisborough.
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Philadelphia
East India Company
Scotland
Ireland
Coventry
Zoffani
Cuff
Lord Grosvenor
Ardent
Chatham Dock
William Purkins
Magdalen College
Cambridge
Earl of Portsmouth
Camberworth
Lincoln
Carl
Stephen
Sworth
James Martin
Wallby
Cumberland
Newgate
Robert Hanson
Leaver
Fleet-Street
Newmarket
King’s Plate of Tools
R. C
Lord Offory
B. C
Lord Ofory
Sir C. Bunbury
Mr. C. Blake
Lord Clemont
Mr. Vernon
Bottom
Feather
Mr. Foley
Mr. Ogilvy
Lord March
Piccadilly
Sir Fred. Evelyn
Forescue Lakes
P. P
Pantalion
Rockingham
Solon
Sampson
Osford
Methodist
Clermont
Suffolk
C. Blake
Cockspur
Farnham
Amphion
Vernon
Hyder
Ioo
Mr. Fox
Pantaloon
Mr. Wentworth
Mark
Zoo
Catarina
Mr. Cox
Miss Charlotte
Mr. Pigott
Pope Joan
Hamptead
Islington
Kentith Town
Lasf
Bond
Clark
Mr. Heely
New Road
Gray’s Ina Lane
Sweetman
Wstesday
Puddie-dock
French
Fountain Stairs
Rohterhith
Old Bailey
Luke Wet
James Lucas
Mr. Falconer
Racquetcourt
Whiteschapel
Stepney
Lord Bofton
Lower Grosvenor-Street
Winchester
Thomas de Grez
Miss Irby
Tottenham
John Holt
Bosquain
John Bosquain
P. Proudtoo
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Miss Redthaw
Redhhaw
Kenrick
Chilham
Kent
Seward
Redcross-iteet
William Serle
Bankside
Southwark
Sally Solway
Solway
Deptford
Edward Ellis
Park-street
Kelver
Kensington
Hawihead
Lancashire
Humphrey Simmons
Holborn
Rigge
William Rigge
Green End
Hackney
William Devereux
John Meakin
Castle-street
Ruth
Mr. Savage
St. James’s Street
Peter Lawson
Knighthbridge
James Bennett
Moorfields
Richard Moon
Surman
St. Mary Axe
Brentford
Robert Leighton
Essex
Roy
Ness
Princess of Wales
Germany
Macchsfeld-street
St. Ann’s
Sohio
Counfry
Exeter
Arthur Kelly
Kelly
Mr. Kelly
Exeter Castle
Montgomery
Do&ars Common
Severn
York
Guisbrough
Cleveland
Joan Josts
HIP New S Deal Sailors Arrive From Various Ports
A London notice lists ships arriving or sailing with names such as the Dolphin Fortune Barba Maria Marrane Jamaica Antigua Frigate Butler Lisbon Glory Wind in the Downs and Glory Wind. The Success Wallace and Langdon New England Montferrat Charming Sally Dublin Milford Pully Hutchinson Dantzick Bremen and other vessels from London are recorded with destinations and origins.
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New S. Deal
Dolphin
Fortune
Barbadoes
Maria
Marrane
Jamaica
Antigua
Butler
Lisbon
Glory
N. E
Wallace
Venice
Portsmouth
Middlesex
Langdon
New England
Montferrat
Charming Sally
Harlop
Dublin
Milford
Pully
Hutchinson
Dantzick
Holl
Richard
Mabb
Bremen
Dito
Ally
Tinker
London
Ditto
Oufe
Colman
Agig
Weiss
Frons Disto
Uro
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Foreign Intelligence
Rome
Cracow
Bow Street
Henry Crosby
George Sweetman
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