Mixed political and global dispatches from a reform era
A long excerpted letter discusses English public sentiment toward crime and justice, contrasting harsh judgments of knavery with English pity. It includes political maneuvering in London’s livery, electoral strategy for Wilkes, and calls for rotating mayoral offices. Reports from Berlin, Stockholm, Warsaw, and Petersbourg describe monarchy changes, proclamations, and military movements amid a broad international news roundup.
Plenary Session Opens in Stockholm Nobility Honours King
In Stockholm on August 28 the four orders assembled for the first time since the revolution. The Marshal of the diet opened the Plenum of the nobility with a long encomium to the King and congratulated the nobles on restored tranquility.
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House of Nobles
Count Horn
Berlin
Princess of
Prusta
Silesa
Constantinople
Warsaw
Haddick
Albert
Saxe- Teschen
Altora
Sweden
Swedish Pomerania
Scania
Halland
Bleckingie
Bahur-Lehn
Smaaland
Prince Charles
Frederick
Finland
Stockholm
Gustavus III
Rudbeck
Im Pleno
London Surrender Notices and Dividends Amid Early 18th Century Parcels
A notice list details multiple debtors and traders in London and surrounding towns who are to surrender various dates at Guildhall, with attorneys named. It also records final dividends and oaths for creditors in Norwich and Rye, reflecting a legal and financial clearinghouse scene with purchasers and bankrupts, including Capt Vanderdeere and Don Jan de Salis. The fragment references confined Britons and Dutch subjects in fortresses, illicit trade, and a broad roster of professions and addresses in Cheapside, Cockspur Street, Milk Street, and Upper Thames Street.
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Great Britain and
Holland
Capt
Vanderdeere
Don Jan de Salis
Robert Siddall
Cheapside
London
Guildhall
Henry Adams
Mark Jane
Maurice Ronayne
Oliver Dumoutin
Reade
Copthall-court
Richard Mason
Cockspur-freet
Charing Cross
Milciefex
Leicester
Muraford Court
Milkstreet
Samuel Harford
Milk-street
Toulmin
Walbrook
William Watts
Upper Thames-street
Cooper
Roth
Oober
Goodman
Bull-and-Mouth-street
George Cookson
St. Giles In the Fields
Middlesex
Suffolk
Ocber
Red Lion
Rye
Alttorney
Pearl Dentifrice and Essence of Pearl Esteemed In Europe
An advertisement extols the Essence of Pearl and Pearl Dentifrice as superior dental products with long proven satisfaction among nobility and gentry in France and Italy. It claims they preserve teeth, whiten them without harming enamel, tighten loose teeth, prevent decay, cure gum scurvy, freshen breath, and ease dental discomfort. Children benefit from earlier use, with supports from Mr Hemet. Sold wholesale by W Bayley and retail by J Price in London at 2s.6d each.
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Livery
London
Wilkes
Crosby
Mr. Crosby
Mr. Wilkes
Nash
France
Hemet
W. Bayley
Cockspur-street
Haymarket
J. Price
Leadenhallftrest
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Fordyce
P. B
Jones
Ronfebrexkuig
Muroper
John Wilkes
the Morning Chronicle
Springporten
Sivedifo Pomerania
Ramsay
Gustavus Adolphus
Pomerania
Strasund
Petersbourg
Foczanv
Moldavia
Wallachia
Russia
Black Sea
Mediterranean
Azeph
Kingdom of
Poland
A. D
Rome
Antonio Silvestra di Padova
Papal Palace
Rochester
George Hatton
Lord Cathcart
Kew
Garraway
Horton
James
Earl of Powis
Bath
Montgomeryshire
Lord Carysfort
Lisle
Stilton
Huntingdonshire
Ireland
Edward Tawney
Oxford
Castle
Drought
John Taylor
Bull Inn
Hicks’s Hall
Palmer
Norwich
Amsterdam
Surinam
Guarda Costa
Grosly
Carthagena
The
London Gazette
Jacob Hemet
Amelia
William Cooke
Surry
Hertford
Bedford
Cambridge
Huntingdon
Northampton
Rutland
Nottingham
Stafford
Shropshire
Hereford
Worcester
Warwick
Gloucester
Git
Wilthire
Berks
Bucks
Counties Upon Coast
Essex
Norfolk
Lincoln
St To York
Toro
Durham
Northumberland
Cumberland
Westmorland
Lancashire
Cheshire
Monmouth I
Somerfee
Devon
Cornwall
Derfet
Hampshire
Sussex
Kent
North Wales
South Wales
Scotland