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Public Ledger in London, Middlesex

09 Jun 1760

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Public Ledger

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London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jun 09, 1760

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2

War news from Europe and Atlantic trade notes

Reports describe Franco Prussian tensions, troop withdrawals, and massing on the Rhine plus court intrigues and Russian French alliance maneuvers. Letters from Hamburg, Amsterdam and Petersburgh forecast pensions, subsidies, and possible exits toward peace while Jesuit and Genoa politics stir Corsican matters. Shipping, privateers, and naval patrols frame Atlantic commerce and wartime risk as parliaments discuss Bezancon reinstatement and clerical pacific vows.

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Hamburgh Rome Republic of Genoa Corsica Cleves Ferdinand Saxony Rhine Marshal Broglio Serene Amsterdam Brazil Francfort Lahne Gieffen Fritzlar Heffe Coblentz Russia France Holland Petersburgh Warsaw Count Woronzoff Europe Hague Fameze Helvoet General York Count d’Affry Paris Benedict XIV States General England Silesia Pomerania Sweden Kingdom of Prussia Besancon Normandy
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London notes on militia, church repairs, and political oaths

The piece records diverse items from Hanover-square to Westminster and the Strand. It notes a militia muster in the West Riding, repairs to St Ann’s church and clock, a scaffold erected, and a wall change near the Admiralty. It lists a new House of Commons qualification oath with parish and county schedules, a street scam at Horseshoe and Magpye, and wall rebuilding at Horseshoe Court. Also marriages, a widow’s death, a public flogging in St James's Park, a robbery, a drowning near Tottenham Court, and a ship arrival from Norway.

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York Hanover-square St. Ann’s Westminster Viscount Wenman Oxfordshire Admiralty Wall House of Commons Anne England Scotland Burleigh-street Exeter Exchange Strand Horseshoe-court St. Clement’s Inn James Moffat St. Martin’s le Grand Aldersgate Tottenham Court Temple Plymouth Fune Unity Mansfield Norway
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