Paris Financial Panic and Bank Runs Hit Confidence
Paris faces confusion and cash shortages as bankers offer 12 percent for money and a run on the Caill e d Escompte unsettles confidence. Reports name Ca lonne Miromesnil and Aligre as noted figures amid concern for major houses. London Gazette notes royal appointments in St Vincent and New South Wales and confirms grants and duties under a 1786 treaty.
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Miromesnil
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England
Burke on impeachment order delays in Commons
Mr Burke argues that articles of crime should precede impeachment and be judged before final questions. He appeals for candour and justice, rejects professional lawyers yet will heed their advice as MPs, and plans to expedite the impeachment process. The day’s order shifts to Thursday for further committee consideration.
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Foley divorce bill passes in Lords and other upsets
In London on April 16 17 the Hon Foley's divorce bill cleared a third reading in the House of Lords while Irish peers rejected their first divorce measure as harmful to conjugal fidelity. A one third duty drawback on Portugal wine is announced with further reductions on French wines. Exchequer overplus stands at 1 200 001. A May 11 tariff adjustment will lower duties on wine. Paris Parliament records abolition of Droits d Aubane and English deaths in France to be natural born. British Bombay governor reports Don Diego Garcia seizure by the island group’s authorities.
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Bourbon
Port Chronicle of War and Crime in Early 18th Century News
Rumors of English rendezvous across France and Cadiz squadrons. French and Spaniards arming fleets at Cadiz Brest and Toulon. English envoy to Algiers, plague in Algiers, and debts dispute in Providence Rhode Island. Battle at Barnet Common ends with Mendoza victorious. London gate note on fornicating law officer. Robberies, highwaymen, sea accidents, tea fraud, and a ship foundering near Scilly. execution of John Wiggs reported.
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Wigs Confession at Execution and Cheshire Blacksmith Notice
At the execution site Wiggs declared his confessions about murders at Warley and Yar mouth as true. He muttered guilty as I hope for salvation before the cart moved away. A Cheshire market town notice shows a blacksmith scolding kick-sters and threatening shoeing without pay.
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Murder charge at Shrewsbury coroner inquest
Country news for April 17 notes a coroner's inquest at Shrewsbury finding a man named John Pythean of Whitchurch guilty of willful murder for killing his wife, with alleged knife forced into her throat and blood gushing from her nose. Also lists multiple marriages and obituaries including Tho Orchard aged 89 at Winfrith and Mrs Leonora Groffett near Oxford.
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Barnett
Paris ministers in disgrace amid royal peculation fears
Friday and Saturdays Posts report great confusion in Paris as ministers are disgraced amid alleged schemes. It cites Baron de Baroned Aspagrac as a royal buyer of Sancerre lands for 1.7 million livres, with 700k in lands and woodlands rewarded to the Crown, and suggests similar deals under Calonne and Gemini. Mont. de la Fayette reportedly demands inquiry into these matters.
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Bastile
Sancerre
M. de Calonne
L’orient
Prince Gemini
Mont. de la Fayette
Wea
Bill on lighting Camberwell and ecclesiastical cases debated
House of Commons proceedings include first readings of the Camberwell lighting and paying bill and Foley's divorce bill. Arguments over the ecclesiastical bill's preamble lead to recommitment. A post-horse tax farming bill is allowed for consideration, and a committee of supply discusses widows' relief and British Museum funding.
Budget proposals and royal promotions in April London
London dispatches report the minister plans to open the budget with only Bank financed revenue and tax tweaks. Sir Joseph Yorke Captain Stafford and Lord Longford kissed the King’s hand on promotions. Dutch trade concerns, mast sea port regulation, Dorchester reports in Halifax note unrest in America, Quebec tranquil.
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