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Newspaper

Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Sep 03, 1761

Page

2

War news Cited Battles in Silesia and Atlantic shipping notes

Reports from Rome and Vienna discuss Polish envoy Count Pagnitki pressing papal action over Poland church appointments and a proposed remedy. The Amsterdam Gazette details a July English showdown with French prames near Rochefort, plus Rennes Jesuit decrees. Letters from Saxony and Genoa describe ongoing war weariness, Corsican unrest, and Austrian delays at Augsburg. Naval notices list several captured ships and trade losses, with Atlantic convoys and prize actions around Jamaica, Toulon, and Bristol lanes. Local London items note societal events, royal preparations, and a Bartholomew Fair proclamation.

Laudohn Striegau Sileia Count Pagnitki Rome Poland Amsterdam Prames Rochefort Ile of Aix Charente Rennes Britanny Ratifoon Dyet Mentz Augsburgh Silesia Ratisbon Saxony Prince Henry Marshal Daon Genoa Corsica Paoli M. John-Baptist Saoli Gottingen Marshal Broglio Luckner Tie Uffar M. de Beifance Markeldendorf Vienna Augsburg Hamburgh Mecklenberg Stade Elbe Flamborough Head Yorkshire Canada Great Britain New World North America Neptune Emerson Piscataqua West Indies Jamaica Scott Glasgow Virginia Capes Smyrna London Marseilles Toulon Eleanor Cecilia Mudie Quebec Bourdeaux Zco Fale Dunkirk Robhult Manchionero Rogers Madeira St. Kitts Cing Island John Stroud Africa Fair American Knight Harlequin Wentworth Leeward Islands

Salisbury Music Festival and Bath charity events in 18th century notice

Reports from Salisbury August 31 describe a county music festival with Handel Jephtha and new pastoral Daphnis and Amaryllis, attended by nobility including Lord Folkesstone, Lady Feversham, and Lord North. Bath Bristol and Edinburgh items note charity collections for apprenticing poor boys and Clergy’s Sons, plus a bakehouse fire in Chalmers Close and American news on privateering and naval movements with Cork fleet captures and Port Louis provisions.

Dymocke England Jones Lincoln’s Inn Harris Curfttor-street London St. Paul’s Penn Lamtat Earl of Sutherland Albemarle Street Scotland Asheton Curson Lord Scarsdale Dover Street John Tredway Ludlow Molly Simpson Namptwich Laft Watford Gideon Baronneau Benjamin Baronneau Spital-square Ann Deacon Thomas Deacon Lambourn Bewdley Soley John Soley Worcester Kerfie Edward Wright F.R.S Rochester-row Westminster John Pugh Salisoury Jephtha Handel Milton Paradise Loft Vinci Jomelli Pergolese Galuppi Coci Lord Folkestone Feversham Lord North Sophia Thomas Lucy Boyle Tracy Ranelagh Count Podewills Arundel Everard Lambert Edward Lady Hulle Wyndham Knatchbul John Stanley Alderman Beckford C. &c. Bath Taylor’s Chalmers Close

The Falr Bride or The Unexpected Event at Yates Booth

A draft called The Falr Bride or The Unexpected Event will be presented at Yates's Grand Theatrical Booth in the Greyhound Inn Yard during Bartholomew Fair. The show features a procession, a monarch praise song, and Epilogue by a theatrical child prodigy Lillizu Fian Squintum, followed by an appeal about Lottery Schemes and claimed profits from Europe.

Yates Greyhound Inn Moal

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