Robbery near Cheapside and local obituaries
Last night a box with apparel was stolen by a masked robber who fled through Cheapside after a pursuit. Josiah Lennard, a Westminster brewer, marries Miss Annie Church. Deaths include Joseph Wetherall of Great Burton and the Rev. Comyn of Worcestershire. Mrs Clark, wife of Mr Clark the banker, noted. Thomas Wittington dies at 104, once a farmer near Uxbridge.
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Witte Deliakles
Pdis
Tate
Batbirots
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Woodford
Cheapside
Luné
Josiah. Lennard
Westminster
Annie Church
Anthony Church
Queen-street
Bloomsbury
Joseph Wetherall
Egford
Great Burton
Surry
Comyn
Upper
Lower Sapey
Worcestershire
Uxbridge Common
Phicat
Orfyy
Sweden
Holland
Bon
Prusie
Bis Press
Russia
Denmark
Kigedom
Petersburgh
Cronstadt
Revel
Aidi Riga
Hamburgh
Hague
M. de Thulemeyer
Prussia
States General
Rhine
Waal
Yffel
Aleppo
London
Aleh
Turkes
Persia
Admiralty
Plymouth
Navy
Séddon
Roger
Hert
Ford-Bridge
Hants
Anderson
Piccadilly
Aton
Kensington Ternpikey
St. Clement Danes
James Kitchen
Halliwell-street
Edith Hiron
Little Ormond-street
St. Paul’s
Covent+Garden
Britton
Bristel
Slade
Henrietta Street
Richmond
William Brandt
Gardegor Ito
Anne
Hat
Elephant show at the Queen's palace yard sparks debate
An Ambulator letter recalls a Sunday visit to the Zebra and Elephant display near the Queen's palace. A guide charged three pence to view the Elephant, claiming the animal cost him hundreds of pounds yearly and questioning whether such exhibits align with royal dignity and decorum.
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Chelsea
Queen’s Palace
Bridewell
Lust of Power in Princes and Ministers’ Practices
Fragment from a 17th century political tirade condemns absolute rule. It argues that rulers seek expansive prerogatives to tyrannize, inviting oppression, loss of public trust, and eventual misery as power corrupts. References King James, Charles I, and Clarendon illustrate dangerous doctrines of divine right.
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Charles I
Lord Clarendon
James
Charles
Rise of Buckingham and royal misrule during early reign
The passage argues that the king’s dependence on the ambitious Buckingham corrupts governance. It contends the minister’s violent temper and corrupt methods alienate the people, forcing the king to extreme prerogative measures that deepen disaffection and threaten constitutional balance.
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Buckingham
Charles
Turbulent war reports reach Warsaw and Sardinia
Letters from Kaminiec claim Proforowski corps nearly destroyed near Campologno by Ottoman forces under the Seraskier and Mehemet Pacha. Russians reportedly lift the Choczim blockade and pursue shattered remnants across the Niefter as Ottoman cavalry harasses convoys. Prussian reports note a broad confederacy forming. In Sardinia, Maltese ships clash with Barbary vessels off the coast, sinking one galliot and seizing another xebeck.
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Warsaw
Kaminiec
Prince Gallitzin
Proforowski
Sieur de Brincken
Campologno
Seraskie
Niefter
Mehemet Pacha
Poland
Mohilow
Sniatyn
Barr
Prussia
Peter
Sardinia
Malta
Marseilles
Barbary
Eyre at Aberdeen convicts Woolcombers riot case
Circuit Court of Justiciary in Aberdeen finishes the Eyre. Woolcombers tried for riot in June in service of manufacturers. Clark Macray Don Buchan fined 600 merks and two months. Taylor Forbes Tait 400 merks and one month. James Finlay fugitive for non appearance. John Gordon of Cluny dies at 74. Mrs Lochart of Carnwath dies in Florence. Stirling note reports a wagon incident with two expectant women seeking passage.
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Edinburgh
Circuit Court of Justiciary
Aberdeen
John Mead
England
Clark
Macray
Don
Buchan
Taylor
Forbes
Tait
James Finlay
John Gordon
Cluny
Florence
Royal Movements and Political Talk From London
London reports royal engagements in Richmond and Westminster, with arrivals by carriage and state visits. News covers Paoli’s meetings, prospective consular offices in American colonies, expected Mediterranean expedition, ongoing election disputes, and various naval and colonial items.
Women rescued from waterlogged wagon on lonely road
A wagon carrying women and provisions overturned between Touch and Gargunnock, leaving the carai van half filled with water and bottles broken. Three passersby rebuilt the machine and freed two frightened women, while provisions were dumped into the river and the waggoner was badly bruised.
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Jim
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Sir Edward Hawke
Mediterranean
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East Indies
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St. James’s
Duke of Gloucester
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Haykins
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Sea Flower
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Dover
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