Vast 18th Century Dispatches Note Wars and Plagues
A long mixed dispatch covers Jan 25 reports from Paris Constantinople and Stockholm. It notes Mouffun Oglau named Grand Vizir with 20 000 Janissaries and 35 000 European troops, Mehemet Guerai to Cuba with funds for Crimea, Tartars formed for campaigns, plus brandy abstention in Sweden and funerary expense cuts. Paris provides mortality stats among Negroes from a Guinea to St Domingo voyage, and births deaths and hospital figures for Paris in 3771. Hague reports cattle sickness prayers monthly and regional misery near Dantzick.
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Medenburgh cutter tragedy near Dover harbour
On Saturday night the Matter of the Medenburgh cutter, lying in Dover harbour, fell overboard from the Chequer and drowned. In Bristol the Gloucester shire waters ran low, an out-rider missing a bridge at Slimbridge and drowning.
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Country News
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Fan
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Bristol
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Slimbridge
Shipping News Briefs From The Downs And Havens
This morning the Grand Duke Harman sails to Leghorn the Eclipse Moorgy to the Granades the Elizabeth Christie to Maryland and the Trial Murrey to Senegal No ships in the Downs Wind is E N E Blessing Laney arrives Waterford Three Sisters Fenn from Newfoundland Maria Clare Gottenburgh Labella Randall London Mary Ann Hargrave Pembroke Phillips London Hird Success Elizabeth Prince of Wales Fhidle Hunter Honduras James and Charity Seville Plymouth continue arrivals at various ports.
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Seville
Plymouth
Lord Folkestone Takes Seat in House of Commons
Yesterday Lord Viscount Folkestone was elected for New Sarum in place of Mr Bouverre and took the oaths and his seat. Provisions' high prices were discussed in the Commons. No one enters the galleries without Speaker order. Lords vow to abstain from Parliament until doors are opened. Lord Camden attended the St James's levee for the first time since Bath arrival and was praised by nobility.
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Folkestone
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House of Commons
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Severay
Court Debate Over Silver Cup Honors At Guildhall
Debates at Guildhall over a motion to present a Silver Cup to Brass Crosby and two others for defending citizens rights in a printers case. An amendment would add gold plate with an inscription praising Crosby Wilkes and Oliver, but the vote favored the original proposal.
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Wilkes
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Miller
London
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Stephen Camm
Thery
Alsop
Glyn
Haley
Stephenson
Sawbridge
Halifax
Bird
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Farringdon
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Reynolds
Ireland
Britain
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Italy
Duke of Gloucester
Orkney
Shetland
Greenland
George Germaine
Great Britain
D’arcy
Junius
Edmund Burke
Suffolk County Elections A Satire On Corruption
A rapid verse sketch tracing the last four Suffolk elections. Knights, peers, and burgesses depicted amid political decay, with a brooding critique of corruption, mortgage, and disloyal peers. Printed for John Wheble at No 24, Paternoster Row.
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Spain
Bry
Mortgag
John Wheble
Paternofter- Row
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