Plan for extended Army service proposed in House debate
Mr Windham outlined a military reform plan to increase the Regular Army by offering seven year enlistments with pay raises for re-enlistment, shifting cavalry and artillery term divisions, and extending Chelsea benefits after 21 years. Militia and volunteers would change recruitment, while levy en masse would divide men into three age classes with annual training and pay.
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Windham
House of Commons
Chelsea
Ireland
Levy En Maffe A&t
Fox
Russia
Sweden
Prussian
Poland
Porlcits
Warsaw
Hanover
Murat
Germany
Joachim Marat
Bonaparte
Berlin
Prasia
Brandenburgh
United States
Vigo
Corunna
Ferrol
Spain
Hamburg
Cartaro
France
Austria
British Fury Over Prussia Rights and Continental Trade
House of Commons report notes His Majesty’s displeasure with Prussia for seizing hereditary dominions and blocking continental ports. Parliament to debate further. dispatches from Jackson and Hardenburg tabled. Possible expedition of 12 000 troops under Lord Cathcart to continent, aiding Sweden. Turkish frontier tensions reported. Russia seeks explanations. Danish neutrality expected to hold. rumours of Mack’s treason convict and Louis Bonaparte’s rise abound.
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Fox
Prussia
Berlin
Great Britain
Lord Cathcart
Dragoon Guards
Foot Guards
Sweden
Arril
Constantinople
M. Stalinski
Reis Effendi
France
Denmark
Baltic
Gen. Mack
Holland
Louis Bonaparte
Paris
Prussia Announces Transfer of Brunswick and Hanover Territories
State Paper from King Frederic William declares a convention with France and Italy, transferring possession of the House of Brunswick territories to Prussia in exchange for ceding three provinces. It orders local officials and citizens to conform under the king’s authority for peace and stability.
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Marshal Berthier
Necfchatel
France
Braunau
Presburgh
Inn
Austria
Rome
Bonaarte
Italy
Brunswick
Nassau—Orange
Fulda
Charater
Bonaparte
Frederic William
Prussia
Subje&s
Germany
Brunswick Lunenburg
Electorate of Hanover
House of Brunswick
Napoleon
Schulenberg Kehnert
British Blockade of Rivers and Algerian Tale
A London bulletin notes Britain may avoid bombardment of Algiers and recalls a Dey’s quip on cost. It reports that Charles Fox informed neutral powers of a blockade at the entrances to the rivers Ems, Weser, and Elbe and vows legal measures will be enforced. The piece also ridicules Pitt's supposed deficiencies in a verse excerpt.
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London
Algiers
Charles James Fox
Ems
Wefer
Elbe
Drave
East Bay Street Lot Lottery Drawn In City Notices
A fragment from Liverpool dated April 6 1806 describes the East Bay Street Lot Lottery with prizes including 100 dolls 56 40 and 12 dollars and lists numerous winning numbers. It also notes the Portirth Day drawing with 400 and 100 dollar prizes and bets of 20 dollars along with long lists of numbers. The excerpt includes commentary on a British bill to curb the slave trade and reports on rising grain prices in New York due to Anglo Prussia tensions and a Vermont constitutional election outcome.
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Liverpool
Aractica
America
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Brest
Boad
Kole
Majestic
Impateux
Foudroyent
Veteran
le Castor
Valenciennes
Adm
Guillame
Jerome Bonaparte
St. Helena
Cape of Good Hope
J. C. Happerler
Simcoe
Papenburgh
Embden
Bohemia
Stria
Elgin
Yarmouth
Ore
Lisbon
Scilly
Sampson
Trith
Secretary of State For the Home and Foreign Departments
Sparrow
Doffeldorff
Glasgow
Morat
STATE
Charleston
Jone
Ertéxam
Mr. Pitt
Pitt
BAY Street Lottery
New-York
England
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