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Newspaper

Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Oct 17, 1761

Page

2

French and Allied Troop Movements Across German Fronts

News from multiple theaters describes General Flardenberg marching into Munster to oust Soubize, with Hereditary Prince joining the effort. British and Allied reinforcements arrive near Hildesheim, while Luckner retreats to safety. Schweidnitz fortress falls after a bold dawn assault, yielding prisoners and captured stores.

Flardenberg Munster Prince Soubize Bremen Wurmer Kroppenburgh Prince de Soubize Coesfeld Cheim Baffum Diepholz Hildesheim Ferdinand Paderborn Brunswick Xavierus Saxony Clozen Seefen Luckner Hague Mr. Hellen Magdeburgh Baron Reisbach Silesia Schweidnitz Zafkow

Foreign dispatches and naval movements spark near Brunswick siege

From Hanover to Vienna and Paris, letters report French forces massing near Brunswick with 20 000 to 25 000 troops and threats of siege. Other items note Bruns wick troops, Prince Ferdinand, and Broglio shifting positions. Reports also cover marriages league between France and Spain, Embden payment, and various ship movements along Atlantic routes.

London Hanover Brunswick Prince of Madame Adelaide Spain France Paris Brett Rochefort St. Domingo Martinico M. de la Touche Embden East-Friesland Vienna Genoa Madrid Bay of Honduras

Suicide and accidents plague town as residents die and suffer

Mary Wilson of Dewbury hanged herself last Tuesday after being found in a distraught state. Timothy Musgrave, clothing at Oilet, fell from his cart return home from the market and died Wednesday after severe injuries. Ninety pounds distributed to forty poor in Mr. Harrison's Hospital per the will of late merchant Mr. Finch. Workmen uncover coin- making instruments while pulling down an old house owned by Mr. Smith in Kirkgate. At James Ashley's Warehouses Ludgate Hill, Jamaica rum and fine old cognac brandy offered at low prices, delivered with carriage, in small quantities, plus Arrack and orange shrub advertised.

House of Peers Lincolnshire Kent Dover Rockingham Grosvenor Square Wentworth House Yorkshire Stamffold of Lanfey New John Street Gay’s Inn Cornhill Poultry Compter Goodman House of Commons Major Leslie Tullidoph Hall Scotland Edinburgh Pope Bath Somersesshire Sally Salmon Oltibant Drovett Jermyn-street East Re Mary Wilson Dewbury Timothy Musgrave Oilet Finch James Ashley Ludgate Hill London

Port News Briefs From Penzance and Deal

Arrivals and sailings listed for ports including Penzance Deal Plymouth Poole and Gravesend. Vessels from Bilboa Guernsey Jersey Quebec Havre de Grace Bordeaux Riga and London noted with consignees routes and cargoes such as resin pitch tar and turpentine victuallers and cutters under convoy.

Penzance N.S. de Vigonia D. Sarria Bilboa Ladem Ashy Guernsey Gibson Scilly Jones Falmouth Dragon Hammatt London Savage Falmuth Tonington Plymouth Belleisle Ravenson le Fever Jersey Figuera Four Brothers Junk Christiana Bourdeaux Hambuorgh Drake Hlagett Piscataqua Ditto Poole Thomas and Mary Wills Hawke Gilbert Quebec Chance Smith South Carolina Rotterdam Sasannah Chambers N.S. del Rosario Murrietta Ostend N.S. de Balvanero Antomex Havre de Grace Vigo Deal S.W Downs Sally Gibbons Nibby Pyman Free Love Swanston Riga Providentia Milbank Ann Deathy Lawson Providence Rodéry The Hope Auchor Meckleton

Restoration After Elixir Claim in Aylesbury Man

William Funge of Aylesbury Bucks suffered an eighteen month phthisical cough with blood and weakness. After trying many medicines he drank Dr Radcliffe’s Pargin Elixir from Dicey Bad Okell in London, one shilling a bottle, and claims miraculous health restoration after several bottles as a grateful public notice.

William Funge Aylesbury Bucks Dr. Radcleffe

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