Foreign and Military News From 1761 Dispatches
Long extracts detail Allied defeats near Ziegenhayn and captures at Mesirs Schlitteren and Zaftrow, with French and Austrian movements across Fulda and Hohenkirchen. Reports on pacific peace hopes fading, upcoming armaments, and naval dispositions from Madrid and Naples. Entries cover Plymouth arrivals and departures, Baltic and Channel fleet actions, and parliamentary elections in multiple counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. de Montchenu
Baron Clofen
Ziegenhayn
Nieder Creutzbach
Zullendorff
Schlitteren
Zaftrow
Fulda
Francfort
Haddick
Mulhausen
Hague
Prilz
Marshal Broglio
Treyfa
Caffel
Hohenkirchen
M. de la Borde
Sonderhausen
Count de Broglio
Count de Broglie
Marquis de Rochechouart
Paris
Pacific
Martinico
Rachel
St. Malo
Havre de Grace
Madrid
Vienna
Italy
Europe
Barcelona
Naples
Malta
Sicily
Palermo
Messina
Constantinople
Local notices and obituaries mixed with odd advertisements
Random fragment from a London trade rider, church notices, marriages, deaths, and a bizarre pest control ad for bugs by Peter Braniff. Includes names like Randall Wilbraham and Henry Ingram, events in Dublin and Norfolk, and a sensational boast about destroying bugs with a money‑back guarantee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Barker
Brazen Note
Nowel
Oriel College
University of Oxford
Randall Wilbraham
Edward Castleton
Holme By the Sea
Norfolk
George Thorne
Jno
Butcher-Hall, Lane
Rebecca Moody
Abraham Wood
Ratcliffe-row
Islington
Susannah Walker
St. Olave’s
Hart-street
Owen
Maurice Dreyer
Tower-hill
Kee
Savage Gardens
Deeside
Chester
Thomas Lee
Bristol
Wooler
Joan Smith
Long Ashton
Somersetshire
Northampton
John Palmer
Ecton
Patrick Boyle
Shewalton
College of Justice
Hackney
Alathea Grace
Arrival of Ostrich and Raven at Falmouth
Port New 656 at Falmouth records the arrival of the Ostrich commanded by Hawkins from London en route to Penzance and the sloop Raven returning from a cruise. The notice notes the ships' movements dated April 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catharina Cornelia
Eye
Rotterdam
Streights
Plymouth
Mary
Jane
Cuthie
Whitby
Riga
Lyon
Wallis
Bristol
London
Chichester
Alcide
Florentine
Weymouth
Rowland
Tizard
John
William
Biddecomb
Hayden
Southampton
Gravesend
Anna Eleanora
Bremer
Dantzick
Unity
Neilson
Norway
Orion Frederick
Wvomberg
Goattenburgh
Hope
Port New
Falmouth
Hawkins
Penzance
Raven
Wanted Place for a Person to Wait on a Lady
A notice seeks a person about thirty to wait on a lady and manage a kitchen if required. Apply by directing to A. D. at Mr. Burges's, Grocer and Blue-maker, Broad-street, Golden-square.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D
Wanted, a convenient compting house near Fen church street
A reader seeks a convenient counting house with one or two rooms usable as warehouses, detached if possible, plus one or two lodging rooms, furnished or unfurnished, near Fen church Street toward the Water Side between London Bridge and the Custom House. Carts must access the place, rent easy, if near a packer, and respond by directing A. B. at Sam's Coffee House in Exchange Alley Cornhill with description and rent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fenchurch Street
Wa Er
London Bridge
Custom House
A. B
Sam
Exchange Alley
Cornhill
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Daily Register of Commerce and Intelligence
Duke of York
England
Princess of
Brunswick
Lord Holdernefle
Lady Howe
Canada
Richard Temple, Bart
John Bentley
Ireland
Whitehaven
Newcastle
Leghorn
Marseilles
Levant
Aberdeen
Portsmouth
Texel
America
Claus Pluyster
Matter
Archangel
Amsterdam
Bergen
Andrew Melitor
Abo
Cadiz
Eggersand
Ile of May
Stonehaven
Whitwood
Genoa
Buxton
Boon
Christian
Shephard
Union
Morrison
Dundee
Campvere
St. Patrick
Sullivan
St. Sebastian’s
Neptune
Ross
Cork
Elizabeth
Smith
Bremen
Pitt
Montgomery
New York
North Star
Gottenburgh
Allen
Boston
Belfast
Carolina
Kennedy
South Carolina
Quirk
Shaw
Guadalupe
Liverpoole
Agatha
Phillipina
Jonge Boote
Zeynaker
Rintecdam
Lantinghausen
Urhullman
Stockholm
Peter
Anna
Wright
Nurenbergh
Franconia
Hesfia
Mayn
Thuringia
Voigtland
Schlautz
Guasco
Eger
Bamberg
Hoff
Bareith
Saxony
Dresden
Flanders
Bruffels
Wurtzburgh
Laudohn
Ledfordshire
Tavistock
Rob
Henley Ongley
Bodmin
Geo
Hunt
John Parker
Brecon
Tho
Morgan
Boffiney
Wortley
Rich
Webb
Egrs
Carlisle
Raby Vane
Curwen
Camelford
Martyn
Barth
Burton
Dartmouth
John Jeffreys
Lord Howe
Derbyshire
Cavendith
Harry Harper
Evesham
Visc
Barrington
Pocock
Feavey
Jonathan Rashleigh
George Edgecombe
Grantham
Geo. Manners
John Cuft
Glamorganshire
Edmund Thomas
Harwich
Cha. Townshend
J. Roberts
John Barrington
Harcourt Powel
Newport
Ditto
Lee Dummer
Charles Holmes
Plymtox
Wm. Baker
Geo. Treby
Esq
Preston
Starkie
Nic
Fazakerley
Richmond
York
Earl of Ancram
Ralph Milbank
C. Kennys Tynte
Major Prowse
Saltafe
John Cleveland
Geo. Adams
Tormes
Browfe Trist
Savage Lloyd
Tamaworth
Lord Villiers
Sir Rob. Bartlett
Bart
West Looe
Trelawney
Buker
Wendover
Cavendish
Verney Lovett
Worceser
Hon
Crabb Boulton
Jn. Walsh
Yarmouth
Isle of Wight
Lord Holmes
Hi. Holmes
K Q
County of Durham
Frederick Vane
Robert Shaftoe
Thomas Clavering
Col
Fitzroy
Duke of Grafton
Germany
Tower
Watkin Williams Wynn
Black Friars
Christ, Church Parish
Surry
A&t
Nottingham
Retford
Tuxford
Dublin
Guild of Merchants
Great Britain
Gala
Monaghan
Joseph Wright
Queen-street
Matthew Walker
Bluecoat Hospital
Arbour-hill
Joseph Grace
Trinity College
Peter Braniff
Union-court
Holborn
St. Andrew’s Church
Brownlow-street
Long-Acre
City Hospital
Aldersgate-street
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