Irishman rose from common soldier to Austrian service
Foreign letters discuss Irishman Géceal Macquire who rose by merit to a high rank with the House of Austria. Reports from Madrid Lisbon and Brussels cover Don Pedro's marriage events, troop movements to Germany, and the siege of Dresden with Prussian forces. Local items note weather, trades, city incidents, and public notices.
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Géceal Macquire
Dresden
Badajos
Spain
Lisbon
Kinnoul
Don Pedro
England
Earl of Bristol
Madrid
Brussels
Prussia
Count de Charolois
Paris
Prince of Conde
Lewis Duke of Bourbon
Duel of Honor and Beauty in the Edinburgh Coffee-House
A reconcilement of love and duty unfolds as Cupid and pride clash in verse and prose at an Edinburgh coffee-house. The piece ends with a playful note about readers choosing a rival poet, while inviting patrons to sample Jamaica rum punch and access papers from Holland, Italy, and Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cupid
Damon
Martial
Teavé
Edinburgh
Harlem
Hague
Utrecht
Amsterdam
Cologne
Brussells
Bologna
Italy
Jamaica
Batavia
Extracts of Browne letter on powder use in hot climates
War Office forwards an extract from Mr Henry Browne surgeon to Colonel Coote's battalion dated Madras November 1759. It notes furnaces of fever and mortality aboard a ship and praises Famads Powderes for treatment. Evacuation and dosing regimens are described, with rapid fever remission in two to three days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Hudson
Richard Peirson
Smithfield
Black-fryars Bridge
Fleet Ditch
Suttling House
Scotland Yard
St. James’s Park
Sir John Cope
Bath
St. James’s Church
St. James’s Place
Guildford
Surry
Farnam
Oporto
Dantzick
Holland
Antigua
St. Kitts
Montferrat
Barbadoes
Jamaica
St. Domingo
Guadalupe
New England
Virginia
Mansfield
Baron Smythe
County of
Derby
Charles Shepherdson
William Snow
Exeter
Hammersmith
Patrick Graham
Eig
Lord Preston
Hermitage Bridge
Andrew Duncan
Thames
Black-Lyon-Stairs
Strand
St. Martin’s
Tooley-street
Bear Tave
Dr. Ohmiony
Cock Alehouse
Sherborne-lane
Bruton-street
Lord Barrington
Mr. Browne
Heary
Henry Browne
Coote
Madras
James
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Portsmouth
Harbour
Florissant
John Purswald
Norway Bear
Cabelan
Odin
Gottenburgh
Leith
Cadiz
Germany
Elliot
Emsdorff
Dragoons
Lord Pembroke
Major Erskine
Howard
Princess-street
Hanover-square
Earl of Thomond
Houshold
Pall-mall
Essex
Dyer’s and Vintner’s
Board of Treasury
William Kepple
Fir Regiment of Foot Guards
Daniy Reeish'r
Plimouth
Argo
Minerva
St. Florentine
Col. Crauford
Puszic Lepceb
Eprit
Rhime
Matt
Justin
Doran
N.B
Royal Exchange
Dogor James
Asia
Africa
America
Dunciad
Fenchurche Street
Aladel
Ri’ Withy
Fenchurch-street
Netrabio
Morak
Pamela
Clarissa
Gr. .Grandison
Lawreace
Province of
Nova-Scotia
Charles Morris
The
Admiralty
St. Laurence
Imand
Anticosti
Falls
Richelieu
Charles Saunders
Quebec
Thomas Jefferys
Prince of Wales
St. Martin’s Lane
Charing Cross
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