31 Dec 1760
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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 31, 1760
Page
1
A long sermon on virtue and learning urges moral obligation and refined taste to guide the nation through ongoing war. The writer argues education via daily papers benefits religious and useful instruction and hopes for support from Sir for New Year's week papers. Letters from Vienna and Stockholm frame strategic concerns and political shifts across Europe.
Dec 23 reports from The Hague of Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick repositioning troops near Gottingen due to winter conditions. British guards occupy Paderborn, while the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick and others quarter in Munster and other areas. Madrid letter notes peace aspirations, with Italy unsettled and Austria wary. Paris letters describe renewed zeal to field armies, Germany fortifications, and potential accommodations if winter peace holds.
Recounted dispatches note the Count de Podewits dying in his sixties in Frankfurt and Marshal Broglia ordering rapid transport of magazines subsistence to his army. Discourse in Lifoon mentions arrests in a royal court case. Earl of Kinnoul prevented an English broadside against Nostra Senhora da Conceicao de Magazan and the Portuguese captain faces punishment after admiralty awareness.
Port News reports wind from the northwest kept men of war in the Downs and outward bound ships hindered, listing the Clarendon, Ancell, Pernefas, Watt steering for Jamaica and the Little Nancy for Guinea, all as before.
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