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Newspaper

Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 30, 1761

Page

2

Plot to surprise the Prussian king at Strehlen uncovered

Letters from Strehlen describe a plan by a Silesian named Warpotlich to send a small cavalry raid at night into Prussia king’s quarters to seize him amid a fire attack. The scheme, known to a priest and Austrian lieutenant colonel, was betrayed by Warpotlich’s servan t. Dragoons captured the conspirators. trial ongoing at Breslaw. News from Saxony notes winter quarters for Prince Henry and Daun. Colberg fate undecided. Also ships sail from Deal as ports report arrivals and transports.

Londow Magdebourg Strehlen Prussia Warpotlch Wargorfch Wargoth Monsieur de Crutemark Wargotich Breslaw Hague Saxony Prince Henry Marshal Daun Colberg New York Sandy Hook Barbadoes Martinico Devonshire Darby Alcide Hankerton Norwich M‘clever St. Pierre Jeffery Amherst General Monckton Antigua Guadaloupe Dominica West Indies Onckton Haviland Grant Cas Welch Moneypenny Sth Jeffery Amherst’s Monckton’s Maestricht Breflaufay Col. Heyde Paris Spain England London Madrid Privy Council Lord Tyrawley Earl of Bristol Tyrawley Switzerland France P—t Holland Texel Lisbon Portsmouth Spithead Guernsey Commodore Young Gayton Cruising Yeekday Belleisle John and Mary Wigmore Lord Viscount Stormont Augsbourg Fulwood Holbourn Middlewich Cheshire Cook Gray’s-Inn-Lane Duncan Menzies Tefton Kent Earl of Terry Southwark Mason King’s-head Llington Church Sedgwick St. Martin’s le Grand Miss Slade St. Paul’s Church-yndl Dartmouth Street Westminster Charlotte Armstrong General Amstrong Bexhill Sussex Sarah Archer Charles the Iid

Calamitous Atlantic Trade News and War Hopes Drift

Reports from Leith and London detail ship captures and prizes in the Atlantic trade. Privateers seize vessels off Scilly. Spanish tensions rise as Portugal and Britain maneuver. Dispatches from New York and Portsmouth describe troop transports to Barbadoes and Martinico, with British officers and regiments listed amid growing war talk with Spain.

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