Fragments of Political and Military News Across Europe
The report cites Croneburg defenses with cannons and twelve pounders, Polish confederacy actions at Fraustadt, Wielopolika jewels sold for Confederate support, vineyards yields and shortages, a Portsmouth dispatch about Carthagena fort firing on a British ship, and London Lord Mayor ceremonies with a grand procession and occasional misfortunes during the Guildhall events.
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Bepenhagen
Cronenburg
Baur
Poland
Warsaw
Pomanid
Kalith
Gefna
Fraustadt
Anthony ‘Sulkowski
Furnith
Terchen
Wielopolika
Austria
Zafomuack
Portsmouth
Mediterranean
Carthagena
Hormen
Stephenson and
Sawbridge
Crosby
Huzzas
Bull
Oliver
Sheriff Lewes
Wilkes
William Stephenson
Westminster
Exchequer
Blackfriars Stairs
Guildhall
Mansion House
Fleetditch
Court proceedings and shipping news from London era
In the court of Common Pleas Lord Chief Justice De Grey presided as arguments unfold with Solicitor General rebutting. Reports of ships and wrecks include the Dorset sailing for Holyhead, various vessels lost or saved, and notices of storms near Whitby. Public announcements extend to appointments, promotions, and weddings amid a flurry of maritime and legal notices.
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Kang
Mansfield
Julie Willey
Smith
Gray’siinh
Planciff
de Grey
Commoen-Pleas
Epping Forest
Society of Free Masons
Thunderer
Plymouth
Boronslourners
Samuel
Jean
Gandou
Nhy
Whitby
Bolind
Sunderland
Whitby Cliff
Eee Eeford
Harford
Comton
the Farley
Cook
London
Antigua
St. Kitt’s
St. Kite’s
Anne
Will
Hambro’ Head
Kitty
Wood
Lomas
Piccadilly
Royal Exchange
Petition seeks corn export ban and relief measures
Norwich reports a city petition to Lord North asking to extend the export ban on all corn and grain, noting harvest deficiency and high malt prices. It urges suspending distilling from grain, permitting limited imports, and easing prices for the poor. Hertford records a fatal Branfield accident from arsenic contaminated apple dumplings. Portsmouth notes HMS Fersett’s arrival from Jamaica.
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Norwich
Lord North
Treasury
Duke of Grafton
Hertford
Branfield
Burgess
Portsmouth
Spithead
Fersett
Capt. Robinson
Jamaica
Pembroke Hall Giboix wins Seaton prize in Oxford project
Cambridge reports Mr Giboix of Pembroke Hall has won Mr Seaton's prize. A conference at Oxford notes a project to supply indigent provishons to the University and City during winter at fidderate prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ze Moege Omersaar
Cambridge
Giboix
Pembroke Hall
Seaton
Oxford
Late Surgeon’s Cure Claims on Antigallican Coasts
An 18th century advertisement touts Dover Kulick a physician on several ships. It offers immediate cures for the French disease with a private method, promises secrecy, and lists sale items and tonics at various prices. The notice seeks an apprentice and claims vast patient success in 8569.
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Resoluion
Black
EAGLE
Lower East Smithfeld
King’s
Dichinson
Lord Anson
Tarlington
Dr. Anderson
Agnes
Periely
St. Anthony’s
Hooper
Bateman
Benjamin Godfrey
Stoughton
James
C. Gratis
Testament to Merchants Drops Cure for Longstanding Leprosy
A letter from John Haines of Berwick-street Soho praises Mr Norton Surgeon for curing a long affliction described as leprosy by using Merchants Drops. The note claims dramatic relief, urges publication, and lists multiple London shops selling the remedy, warning against counterfeit versions.
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Marchant
Jordan
Berwick-street
Soho
John Haines
Norton
Siungeon
Golden Square
Piccadilly
London
John Norton
N. B
Pius, Prietor
Maredant
Adelphi
Deering
Newport
Acre
Smith
Taternofler Row
Pryor
Stratfac
Balsamic Tincture Claims a Cure for the Scurvy
A customer testifies to a perfect cure of scurvy after using six to seven bottles of Balsamic Tincture. He invites others to verify at No 64 Coleman's Street and notes prior medicines failed. Wholesale and retail by Newbery Corner of St Paul’s Yard and at Dr. House No 3 Little Chapel Street Soho. Gratis short account of common scurvy symptoms offered.
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Colemans Street
F. Newbery
St. Paul’s Church- Yard
Little Chapel-Street
Wardcut-Street
Soho
Per Battle
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Parliament
William Cooka
Whitehall
Edward Hay
Geneak
Barbados
America
William Spry Fela
Alton
Daniel Horfmand
New-York
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Mr. Scott
William Courtney
Parentep
Rye
Scott
Charles Low Whytell
Joseph Hornby
Peter Sykes
Whytell
Cooke
King’s College
University of Cambridge
Brown
Sheffield
Worcester College
Ahmolean Museum
Charles Abbott
Royal Regiment of Artillery
John Turner
Thomas Mitchell
13Th Regiment of Foot
James Leslie
Samuel Hawlington
Biggs
Great Buffel-street
Blomsbury
Willets
Park-street
Riday
Allhallows Church
Thamiess Street
Dowgate-hill
Miss Reeves
St. Clement’s Church
Hilton
Ludgate-hill
Ludgate-hill, To Miss Scott, of Essex-street
Nathaniel Harris
Aldermanbury
Keene
Charter-housé-quares
Déarus
John Hall
Calais
Italy
Myddleton
Richard Myddleton
Chirkcastle
Denbighshire
Gaystreet
Bath
Ben, Adamson
Chelsea
Edgeworth
Enfield
Paul Huldam
Thomas Holmes
Lambeth
Rogers
Loggin
New College
Ins
Grosvenoe-street
Hugh ‘Nicholson
East-Indies
Winchester
S. d. Se Sd
Middlesex
Bedford
Huntingdon
Orthampton
Rutland
Leicester
Nottingham
Derby
Stafford
Shropshire
Hereford
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Warwick
Gloucester
Wiltshire
Cumberland
Westmorland
Lancashire
Chesthire
Monmouth
Somerset
Devon
Cornwall
Dorser
Hampshire
Sussex
Kerit
North Wales
South Wales
Scotland
Country News
Dover Kulick
Mr. Norton
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