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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 01, 1772
Page
3
A lengthy 18th century digest reports on unrest in Europe with notes on Denmark, Poland, Russia, and Ottoman tensions. It mentions Queen Caroline of Denmark, British naval intelligence, and parliamentary actions, plus assorted economic daily prices, crime reports, and local incidents from London and nearby towns.
Reading and Norwich date line noting deaths and marriages. William Jed of Oxford dies. John Lowry of Christchurch marries Miss Underwood. A poor man found dead at the Red Lion in Henley, likely from cold. Sackville Turner marries Miss Crockley of Watton. A boy saved his siblings from ice in Speen. Rev William Gee appointed rector of St Stephen Torwich. George Hodges, merchant, dies in Lynn. Edmund Barber, barrister, dies after lingering illness in Potternewton.
Feb 2 shipping brief notes wind in the Downs. Several vessels report arrivals from distant ports including the Bricklade from Virginia to Bristol Dublin Leard from Dublin Glynn Cayler from Jamaica Jane Mills from Bristol and Naples Galley Heighington from Newfoundland to Civita Vecchia Sally Flynn from the same route and Haftle from St Ives with dispatch at sea
A messenger departed from the Queen's Palace to Copenhagen prior to a Council held at the palace. The dispatch aimed at his errand is linked to rumors of recent events at a northern court, allegedly influenced by French ambassadorial machinations, details unclear.
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