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Newspaper

Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Mar 21, 1760

Page

2

Inhabitants Flee via Tents Amidst Plague Fears

Reports describe displaced residents living in tents after town demolitions. They face nightly wild beast threats from mountains and deserts and a spreading pestilence said to be raging in St. John d Acre. Other dispatches note the Amaranthe reaching St Malo, and English and Prussian envoys in Madrid and Lisbon discussing political matters.

St. John d’Acre St. Malo Amaranthe Mont. Thaurot Madrid Earl of Bristol England Marshal Lisbon Rome Genoa Catalinia Spain Catalonia Monarchy

Port News Deal March 19 Winds Sailings and Arrivals

Shipping news from the Downs reports March 19 as ships departed including Betsey Johnstone to Maryland Barbadoes Griffith to Ches ter and George Howard to Dublin. Other vessels, Launceston Lynn Rye Deptford St Albans Dover and Duke of Marlborough remain. Arrivals include Grace Chambers at Amsterdam and Happy Jane at the river.

Deal S.S.W Betsey Johnstone Maryland Barbadoes Griffith Chester George Howard Dublin His Launceston Lynn Rye Downs Deptford St. Albans Dover Duke of Marlborough Victuallers East India Watch Robinson Gravesend Vatus Ryan Honduras Black Prince Joad Jamaica Amsterdam Grace Chambers New York Happy Jane Burt Cork Stangate Creek St. Antonio de Padua Lifture Valencia Venice Friendly Brothers White St. Christophers Spithead Endeavour Jones Malaga Cadiz Antonette Nicolini Omien Hamburgh Smyrna Bosphorus Anson Naples Leghorn Hungerford Walker Genoa Sarah Muldrup Fairynouth Gibraltar Atalante Siwers

News From Hamburg March Dispatches on Silesia Route

Letters from Dresden report Prince Henry's corps moving toward Silesia via Torgau Luckau and Sonnewald. He is said to have a leg ailment and may proceed to campaign if health allows. The king relocates HQ to Grunbach as Lusatia resources are drafted. Reports of Schwedt prisoner note contradicts. General Landohn in Moravia threatens Neisse. Fouquet reinforces Silesia frontier.

Fetra Hamburgh Dresden Henry Silesia Torgau Luckau Sonnewald Wittemberg Berlin Freyberg Grunbach Lower Lusatia Electorate of Brandenburgh Altena Schwedt Landohn Moravia Neifs Fouquet Saxony Baron de Mackau Ratisbon France Duke de Broglio Hanau Marshal Broglio Landau Prussia Brunswick States General United Provinces Society For Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures, &c Strand Francis Wilde St. Asaph Knockin Kingsley Fort William Scotland Onslow Oxford Blues Marquis of Granby Saint George’s Fields Gravesend Germany Canterbury John Godfrey Kingsnorth Elham Ashford His Majesty’s St. Dunstan’s Rochester Chatham Bedford Prince Frederick Centaur Edinburgh John Dalrymple Cranston Board of Excise

Prussian Strengths and Atlantic Dispatches Reported

Letters from Saxony claim the Prussian army will grow by about twenty thousand this campaign while Vienna notes a three million florin loan, with Hungary revenue measures mirroring France. News from Marseilles cites troop transports and provisioning for Martinico and Minorca, plus naval movements from Spithead and Dover as ships sail for Oporto and Germany.

Saxony Vienna Hungary France Marseilles Martinico Minorca

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