War news and colonial dispatches from Europe and the Atlantic
Updates from Flanders and Madrid describe ships fitting for Havana and troop convoys. Reports from Leghorn Turin and Copenhagen detail recruiting, fiscal measures, military preparations, and tobacco manufacture subsidies. News from Paris and London cover naval prizes, exchanges, and the Baltic theater with battles around Pondicherry, Meiller, and Cadiz.
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Flanders
Madrid
Havanna
Peru
Mexico
Leghorn
Calvi
San Fiorenzo
Turin
Switzerland
Naples
Burgundy
Germany
Cafel
Geismar
Gottingen
Marshal Broglio
Francfort
Maubert
Otho
Langerfaltz
Kalckretter
Lower Rhine
Marshal de Soubise
Leipisch
Prussia
Meiffen
Prince Henry
Saxony
Silesia
Laudohn
Daun
Empire
Magdebourg
Dantzick
Weiffel
Pomerania
Boufa
Kryffau
Stolpen
Copenhagen
M. Barre
M. de Cederfeld
Paris
M. Dache
East Indies
Brest
Pondicherry
Meiffer
PORT NEWS Deal April 17 Wind descends on convoy
The April 17 dispatch reports wind conditions from Deal. The Admiral Boscawen merchant transport and the Rickman Westcomba sailed yesterday with his Majesty's ship Maidstone, all crossing under convoy toward their destination.
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Newark
Gosport
Hazard
Thomas and Jane
Barlow
Deal
Capell
Warren
Bell
Virginia
Prince Edward
Gravesend
Henry and
John, Williams
Gibraltar
Charlotta, Hill
Lisbon
London
Whitehall
John Earl of Ashburnham
St. James’s Park
George Earl of Cardigan
Castle of Windsor
Evan Vaughan
Harleigh
North
Wales
Sir James Murray
Scotland
Stephen Penny
Kennedy
Cape Finisterre
Bourdeaux
St. Domingo
Thomas Adams
Scilly
Plymouth
Dieppy
Bristol Channel
S. W
Admiral Boscawen
Rickman
Westcomba
Maidstone
Obituary Roundup from London and Kent Deaths
Last Monday in Vou IL died the Lady of Stone Et of Chippenham. Friday night Sir Gregory Page died suddenly at Blackheath Kent. Friday night the Right Rev Benjamin Hoadley Bishop of Winchester died at Chelsea after a short illness. He was consecrated Bishop of Bangor in 1685 and held Bangor Hereford Salisbury and Winchester dioceses in succession. Saturday Lewis Berril died at Tokenhouse Yard. Yesterday Mr Astley died at his Old Street home after years retired from business.
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Edgar
Drake
Plymouth
Bedford
Thames
Cadiz
Majorca
Alonso Mendoza
Lady of Assumption
Kew
St. James’s
Louth
Duke of Chandos
Leicester House
Duke of Cumberland
Pall Mall
New Market
Amelia
Cavendish-square
Duke of Kingston
Arlington-street
Kingdom
War Office
Essex
Bocking
Braintree
Sudbury
Suffolk
Newmarket
Lord Northumberland
Narcissus
Wilson
Lord Grosvenor
Wolfley Barb
Beacon Course
Lord Gower
Mr. Warren
Cade
Mr. Greville
Molly
Babraham
Lord Orford
Foxhunter
Blaze
James Hogan
Garden Hoe
Thomas Sheppard
Newgate
Saunders Welch
Eig
Andrew Orme
Buckingham-gate
Vite
Weyntowth
Bédchatahér
Teretes
Walker
Gray’s-Tin
Francis Seymour
Bath
Tame
Lysin
Norfolk
Thomas Drake
Bread- Street
Miss Dewing
Cawfoh
Edgecumb
Winchester
Lewis Berril
Howser
Old-street
Mr. Astley
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The
Danny
Lon
Admiralty Office
Hero
Edgecumbe
Harrison
Venus
Woodward
Falmouth
Williston
Groyne
Seville
St. Kitt’s
Martinico
Eat Indies
Old France
Johnson
South Carolina
Bermudas
Mercury
Sterling
Bristol
William and Mary
Sorthcott
Malaga
Virgin
Fitzherbert
Tingmouth
Brunswick
Antigua
Alicant
Windermits
Newfoundland
Dowss
Port News
Vou
Navy Office
Treasery
Navy
Broad-fieety
Beenards
Siah
Mith
Stanley
Arthur’s
Batson
Cornhill
Devereux Court
Will’s
Linccliff’s Inn Fields
Notiece
Rainbow Coffee House
King Street
Covent Garden
Bloomsbury Square
John Duke ‘of Bedford
Marquis of Fainstock
Toweods Close
Clerkenwelk
John
Bedall
N. B
Steve Grates
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