Siege and Retreat Under Moors Near Perrin’s and Prince George
Distress at a fort under siege describes failed retreat plans as the Prince George runs aground, fires burn in the Company's houses, and Nabob forces tighten their grip. The text notes attempts to hold out, escape by water, and the sinking pilot’s error, with a continuation promised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mir
Holwell
Roth
Perrin
Dumdumna
Prince George
Thomas Hayte
Pearkes
Lewis
Cruttenden
Nixon
Knox
Marine Yard
Nabob
Reverend Midwives Debate at Coffee House
In a Middlesex Journal excerpt two venerable gentlemen discuss male midwives and the obstetric question. They note reasons for and against male practitioners and propose university hospital internships and clergy study trips to London to improve care and discipline in childbirth practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dons LE
London
Posticript News From Europe and London Society
A digest of late European dispatches and domestic items notes arrivals in Naples of the Duke of A'cos and Spanish nobility, armistice signals between Russia and Turkey, Poland and Sweden tensions, fleet movements, a new treaty talk, and court intrigues. Also reports on market prices at Smithfield, a death in Lime Street Ward, a London theater anecdote, and local mischief in Oxford Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Flanders
Naples
Cos
Turkey
Constantinople
Gallipoli
Stadhola
Committee of Customs
Fienna
Florence
Europe
Russia
Austria
Prussia
Poland
Sweden
Denmark
Peter III
St. James’s
London
France
Berlin
Paoli
Fockzany
Mediterranean
Imperial Chamber of Visitation
Germany
M. Folke
Bremen
Wetzler
Empire
Electoral College
College of Princes
Knowles
Flushing
East Indies
Lisbon
West-Indies
James Watkins
Bermudas
Jamaica
Cuba
Guarda-Cofta
Havannah
Duke of Milan
Elector of
Archduke Ferdinand
Vienna
Modena
Schonbrun
Mother
Mons. Faye
Creft
Auvergne
Fordyce
England
Hon
Lord Scarsdale
Kedleston
Derbyshire
Prince of Wales
Derby
Duke of Devonshire
Chatsworth
Wood‘ard
Paris
Foote’s Theatre
Haymarket
Wilkes
Smithfield
Oxford Arms
Warwick -Lane
Compter
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Alaid
The
Middlesex Journal
Posticript
General Wolfe
Erigand
Abram
Sinon
Maixerva
Britannia
Jolfe
Asaphides
India
South Sea
S. S. Ann
Ind
W. Bayley
Cockput Screet
A. Rothwell
Civer Cat
New Bond Screet
J. Grosvenor
Angel and Crown
Hoborn
F. Newbery
St. Paul's Church-Yard
J. Price
India-house
Leader
Hail Screet
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