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Earthquakes and dispatches from Jamaica and Europe
Letters from Jamaica report two ships bringing news of a great Chilean city drowned by an earthquake with only a few families saved, plus a Jamaica shock on Dec 8. In Sevile and Cadiz plans unfold for troops to Italy and a loan proposal, while Berlin speaks of health in Prussia and a fire in Hamburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Jamaica
Informus
Carthagena
Porto Bello
Chile
South America
Peru
Spain
Philadelphia
Spafford
Liverpool
Dublin
Sevile
Vienna
Duke de Lima
Italy
Corp of
St. Roch
Gibralter
Cadiz
Belont
West Indies
Count de Clavijo
Duke de Bagnos
Madrid
Portugal
Averro
N. S
Lester
Tuscany
Florence
Great Britain
Count Kinski
France
Dipatches
Ratisbon
Brancfort
London
Salizbourg
Duke of Lorrain
Hanover
N.S
Hamelen
Weser
Delmhorst
Denmark
House of Hanover
Feild Marshal Bulaw
Herenhausen
Netherlands
Hamburgh
Berlin
Pruffia
Potsdam
Count de Fieckenstei
Baron de Kniphausen
Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Damport
Villian
Paris
Dauphin
Park
Versailles
Andover
Lincoln’s
noFields
Coningham