Wartime reflections and a pacifist soldiers plea in 1761 letter
A veteran writer, praising Pacifcus, condemns unnecessary war as robbery and murder. He recalls remorse from military duty, cites cruel spoils of war in Flanders, and recounts two duels turned to friendship. He endorses a book on war cruelty, praises Henry IV and Sully, and warns of Louis XIV’s devastations.
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Flanders
Henry the Fourth
France
Sully
Christendom
Autler
Havock
Auhor
Cesar
Alexander
Cafar
Cez
Europe
Spain
Ecgwis
Olaire
Aretill
Holland
Aigee
Loraine
Voltaire
Lewis
Verailles
Palatinate
Manheim
Poltaire
Germany
Ghiffindom
Legwis the Xivth
Galliess
Lewis the Xivth
Beggars in Leicester Square Tone of Protest
A Leicester Square resident, in St Martin in the Fields, questions parish beggar relief and notes the square’s beggars crowd streets. The writer contrasts St George’s and St James’s beggar control with other parishes, calling begging unsuitable for public view and signaling danger to women.
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Pubric Lepcer
Leicester Square
St Martin
St. George’s
St. James's
Sale by Order of Assignees of the late bankrupt
At the Queens Head and Star Covent Garden large assortment of winter and summer silks and remnants of the bankrupt estate to be sold cheap. Includes fashionable silks mecklin brocades and black silks. Debtors urged to settle or face legal action without further notice.
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Queen’s Head and Star
Coventry Cross
Chandois-street
Covent-Garden
Port News From Penzance And Weymouth
Port details report arrivals and sailings of His Majesty sloops and ships from Penzance Falmouth and Weymouth including Savage Wasp Thames Bonetta and other vessels with destinations Neath Naples Venice Smyrna London and Amsterdam plus coasters and coasting trade movements on Sept 26 to Sept 28.
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Port New
Penzance
Savage
Peard
Fly
Amos
Chichester
Mary
Catherine
Brockmeyer
Streights
Falmouth
Wasp
Thames
Belleisle
Prince William
Maes
Rotterdam
Venice
Fortuna
Naples
Bonetta
Hopewell
Palmear
Neath
Plymouth
Mary Jemima
Speedwell
Hunter
London
Pollux
Graf van Booren
Amsterdam
Perrot
Jane
Bellersle
Bosphorus
Smyrna
N.S. de Begona
Weymouth
Charles
Langrish
Newcastle
Saccese
Williams
Sunderland
Thoms
Patience
Gerrard
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