Danish King quells Gardes by mild measures in dispute
A foreignExtra reports in Copenhagen the King of Denmark faced an attempt to force the incroportion of Gardes du Corps into another regiment. The King forbade forcible action and preferred mild measures. Also noted are notable bankruptcies in Delft, a Marbled Paper director’s failure, and local mortality tallies in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Storks seen near The Hague signal mild winter. The St Joseph arrives from Goa with a chief minister jailed in Limoire. Deaths in Amsterdam totaled 7981 last year. Rotterdam 1702.
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Tom Habargh
Copenhagen
Denmark
Gardes ‘du Corps
Gardes de Corps
Delft
Republick
Comptoir General of
Holland
de Hoagie
Hague
Lifton
Stoseph
Goa
Limoire
Ansterdam
Rotterdam
Fan
Smuggling raid ends in fierce night clash near Brentwood
In a daring seizure bid, Mr. Harvey of Brentwood gathered three recruits and Serjeant Lightfoot to halt smugglers carrying tea and goods. A clash ensued near Billericay with six wounds to the serjeant and a serious injury to the Supervisor. The smugglers escaped toward London, leaving one man severely hurt and others unscathed by the raid.
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Gosport
Fan
Birmingham
Swan Inn
Stoke
Bromsgrove
Ailler
Brentwood
Billericay
Lightfoot
34Th Regiment of Foot
Excise
Button
London
Ilford
Middlesex
Sheffield
Germany
Mary
Wexford
Roffiter
Liverpool
Dogger
Gravesend
East Indies
Lord Damien
Riddle
Earl of Athburnham
Pierce
Glebe
Ratcliff
West Country
Whitechapel
Swark
Guildhall
Bridewell
Sir Robert Ladbroke
Dundee
Scotland
Lancashire
News and gossip from St James to Hounslow powder blast
A sweeping 1772 era update covers arrivals and departures to Dover Portsmouth and London. Reports on Parliamentors improvised paper boxes for letters, naval and military movements, spice from Lisbon, and Jesuits in Tonquin. Crime notes include street robberies and a forged Ladbroke bill. Also mar ried and deaths notices pepper the page with local social details.
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London
St. James’s
Lord North
Lord Gower
Watkin Williams Wynne, Bart
Earl of Harcourt
France
Princess Dowager of
Wales
Amelia
Brunswick
Queen’s Palace
St.James’s
Cleveland Row
Carthagena
Duke of Gloucester
Italy
Duke of Cumberland
John Wilkes
Durance
King’s Bench
Calais
Dover
Bill of Rights
M—1
Common Council
Sylva
East India Company
Madagascar
Borneo
Fort St. Philip’s
Lisbon
Kingdom of
Tonquin
Naples
Mount Vesuvius
Derby
Dantzick
Liverpool
Orkneys
Madeira a See New York Paylor From
Madeira a See New York at i Paylor from reads as a fragmented note with unclear names and places. The readable fragments suggest a travel or reporting fragment mentioning Madeira New York and Paylor but lack coherent events or dates.
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Madeira
New York
Paylor
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HIP
Deal
Maria
Wilson
St. Kit’s
Peter
Harvey
Jamaica
Downs
Senegal
Liberty
Raiton
Virginia
Tristram
Shand
Leeward Islands
Queen Chardotte
Bath
Portsmouth
Frederick
Herwig
Stettin
Ewe
Hounslow
Essex
Erith
Kent
Hounflow Heath
Thomas
Brentford
William de Grey
Court of Common Pleas
Earl of Ilchester
Old Burlington Street
Thomas Lish
Joseph Jordan
William Phenix
Saunsders Welch, Esq
Newgate
George Griffiths
William Beesley
Julie Girdler
Sarah Cave
Bow Street
New Prison
Phenix
Charles Burton
Clerkenwell Bridewell
Olds Bailey
Robert Ladbroke
John Wood
Blackheath
St. James’s Church
Westminster
Perkins
Bond-street
Franklin
Duke-street
Willis
Lombard-street
Dublin
William Fletcher
L.L
St. Mary’s
Kildare
William Giles
Reading
Chester
Kay
Abraham Richardson
Long Melford
Suffolk
Aix
Provence
John Roper
Francis Head
Hermitage
Onslow
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