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Turbulent European balance and Prince Henry report lingered
In this dated miscellany a mixed panorama unfolds from a naval dockyard note about ships at Deptford and pay periods to a sweeping European panorama. It recounts warlike power balances among Austria Russia and the Ottoman Empire, notes a medical bulletin on Prince Henry of Brunswick, references Paris intrigues, court life in St James's, royal wedding preparations, and local crime and society items including robberies, accidents, marriages, and deaths across London.
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Austria
Russia
Vienna
Europe
Sance
Mons
Voltaire
Constantinople
Silesia
Hanover
France
Prince Henry of
Brunswick
Hamm
Westphalia
Prince Henry
Barkly
Guerin, Burlton, Schaefer
Duke of
Prunswick
Wolffembuitle
Tamim
Prince of Orange
Hague
Yorke
States of Holland
M. de Chevrenfe
Order of the Holy Ghost
Martinico
Buffy
St. James’s Palace
St. James’s
Princess Dowager of Wales
Leicester-house
Mantua
Caroline
Prand
Catherine Pelham
Whitehall
Surry
Tower
Belleisle
West Indies
Guy’s Hosital
Barnet
Mr. Tate
Hawk
New Road
Bedford House
Mr. Fielding
Gracechurch-street
Whitechapel
Tarvey
East Smithfield
Rumford
Plaisterer
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
James Harding
Bush- Jane
William Julius
Reading
Berkshire
Brice
Golden Square
Otwell
Battlesden
Hertfordshire
St. Bennet Finch
More
Greenwich
Trechilling
Pigg-ftreet
St. James’s Church
Corbett
Royal English Fuziliers
Mytton
Old Bondstreet
Flemming
Vigolane
Piccadilly
Church
Cardigan-head
Charing-cross
Hall
Newgate-market
John Payne
Whitchurch
Molly Wickstead
Collins
Chelsea
Robert Simpson
Merchants
William Tempest
Cranbrook
Kent
Gardener
Lord Spencer
Plymouth
Henry Hammond
Train of Artillery