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Fire Delight Sommers and other ships arrive Cork Plymouth
An Extra of a Letter from Portmouth dated Dec 24 notes Commodore Keppel heading to the West Indies in the Dorsetshire, five new raised companies to accompany him aboard, the Vanguard and Deptford ships docking, Juno and Venus frigates cruising, and fleet movements at Spithead with Admiral Holbourne and Admiral Rodney at St Helen's. Letters from Prancfort and North Holland discuss Saxon Prussian affairs, desertions in the French army, Voltaire's memoir plans, and a Prussian hussar’s bold action in Silesia followed by imperial gifts. The French parliament preamble on Besançon urges legal submission and constitutional limits, with a decision to reconvene January 29 and invite princes and peers.
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Fire Delight
Sommers
Bristol
Cork
Fhree Brothers
Westcote
Plymouth
Portmouth
Commodore Keppel
West Indies
Dorsetshire
Prince of Orange
Vanguard
Deptford
Spithead
Juno
Venus
Triton
John Lamb
Matter
Pool
Solebay
Northbrooke
William Woodman
Dublin
Holbourne
St. Helen’s
Nottingham
Rodney
Coventry
Portsmouth
London
Pole
Plymouth Dock
Prancfort
Wittembergh
Count de Laface
North Holland
Switzerland
Voltaire
Sieur de Konarsky
Charlottenbrun
Silesia
Goltze
Besancon
Thal
Duke and Duchess of Newcastle
Lincoln
Stinn-Fields
Clermont
Surry
North
Sothersetthire
James
Hereford
Vincent Mathias
Beadle
Cripplegate
Craven
York Buildings Company
Amsterdam
Countess of
Yarmouth
Pembroke
Hill Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Ngland
Eagle
Marygold
Strand
Justice Fielding
King’s Arms
Haughton Street
Clare Market
Woodham
Sheprith
Cambridgeshire
Royston Market
Melbourn
Earl of Ashburnham
Dover-street
Eaton
Academy
Fower-Street
Robinson
Darking
Greherday
Devonshire Square
Harry Featherstone
West Smithfield
Rebecca Pritchard
King-Street
Covent Garden
Cornhill