Foreign intelligence notes from Austria and Indies
The May 7 bulletin reports deserters in Cracow near famine conditions, Vienna mourning a Field Marshal died mid-April, and East India trade news from Goree. The Hoolwerf convoy arrives with eight French ships and Indies fleets expect more ships to Europe. French troops in Mauritius estimated at four to five thousand locals.
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Karfasys
Pyahe
Cracow
Vienna
Charles. de. Bathiani
Holy Empire
Thissmonth
Fonstrdam
East-India Company
Indies
Cape of Good Hope
Europe
Mauritius
War ships expected as downing set sail for Denmark
Canterbury reports a horse chaise and five wagons passing through on their road to Deal. They are believed to carry a man of war and two frigates now ordered to sail for Denmark, to convey her Danish Majesty from Elfinar to Zell. Bath notes an inquest at Newbury into the death of William Hall, who died en route under vagrant act custody. verdict: death by visitation of God. An overseas letter laments hunger and rising prices, urging immediate redress for the poor.
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New S
Canterbury
Downs
Denmark
Elfinear
Zell
Bath
Newbury
Seymour Mundy
Berks
William Hall
Bridewell
Reading
Newbury Warter
Cornwall
Bengal
Bristol
Britain
Dusning
Buffol
John Grith
Saffron- Walden
Essex
Thomas Cooper
King’s Bench
Carollina
le Despencer
Gardner
Yeserday
Old Bailey
Judith Whalen
Newgate
Patrick Murphy
Black Mary’s Hole
Islington
Hutchins
King’s Road
Chelsea
Maryoone
Byrne
Prince’s Court
Hedge-lane
Panton-Street
Leicester Fields
Greenwich
Depford Reach
Lisbon
Blatton-garden
Haddiestone
Rich
Haddlestone
Salfton-hall
Cambridgeshire
Marriott
St. James’s
Clerkenwell
England
Broomhouse
St. George
Devon
Richard Gay
Bainham
Ivory Turner
Upper Moorfields
White-conduit-home
Marth
George Marth
George Marth, Esq. of the Victualling-otice
James Clarke
Chancery Office
Royal Navy Movements and Dockyard Work at Chatham
May 4 Chatham extracts report several ships in dock or laid up including Stag Coventry Medway Augusta and Glory sloop of war in the Downs Glory Cruizers in the East Indies repairs underway at Chatham and in the Downs. Coastal arrivals include Robert and Elizabeth from Bordeaux Molly from Riga Pool Countess of Darlington from London and Newcastle Constant Friend from Cadiz Philadelphia African Queen from Jamaica Ark Hodgson at ditto.
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W.S
Chatham
Stag
East Indies
Coventry
Medway
Augusta
Deal
Carolina
Lowley
Glory
Cruizer
Robert
Elizabeth
Moore
Rowerdam
Pool
Countess of Darlington
Taylor
London
Newcastle
St.Kites
Flynn
Cadiz
Philadelphia
Craddock
Court notes Earls and Acts on Irish affairs
Yesterday Sir Joseph York met with his Majesty at St James's and will return to The Hague on embassy duties. Venetian resident d Imbuti bade farewell at Richmond. Townshend received royal commissions to seal 13 bills including preventing church burials, promoting hemp and flax, regulating partnerships, restricting beggars, aiding deserted infants, and relieving insolvent debtors as peers and Commons adjourned in the afternoon.
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Joseph York
St. James’s
Hague
d’Imbuti
Richmond
George
Viscount Townshend
Ireland
A&t
House of Peers
House of Commons
Parliament Fragments on Coinage and Dissenting Relief
Yesterday both Houses adjourned to July 1 and discussed a bill to fund coinage law enforcement expenses. Debates on leather prices, oak bark import and Protestant dissenters relief followed, with opposition citing penal laws and doctrinal disputes. Updates from Paris and London described counterfeit currency in Poland and royal court gossip, plus local court and crime notes.
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Treasury
House of Commons
House
Burke
Roger Newdigate
Mr. Burke
Lord North
Harry Houghton
William Dolben
Church of England
Christ
St. John
Montague
Mr. Locke
Mrr. Locke
W. Meredith
Paris
Prince of Brunswick Wolfenbattle
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Alsop
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Crosby
Shakespeare
Esdaile
Plumb
Kennet
Wilkes
Roffeter
Bird
Oliver
Stevenson
Turner
Hallifax
Bridge-House Lands
Sessions House
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