Remarkable early death and court notices in London
Sunday and Tuesday posts recount a young Dauphin’s death before age eight and a royal heart sent to Val de Grace. The rest covers London politics on excise proposals, a fatal shooting over bells, a river voyage incident, opera fire damages, bankruptcies, and a voyage diary detailing convicts, ships, and Teneriffe observations.
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Dauphin of
France
Pent
Mrosture
Mendon
Val de Grace de Paris
Bois de Bologne
St. Dennis
Court of Common Council
Guildhall
Powell
London
Alderman Newman
Excise
Alderman Newnham
Benjamin Hammett
J. Saunderson
Sawbridge
Pickett
Giitith
Glasgow
Hare
Committee of Manufacturers
Westminster
Gannon
Neabers
Ascot
Lord Barrymore
Albright
Ribright
Rlbright
Southampton
Netley Abbey
Characer
T. R
Winchester
Hussars
Mendoza
Fernand Nugnez
Spain
States General
Crown of
House of Spain
House of Orleans
Duke of Anjou
Louis XIV
Ancona
Newman-street
Ireland
America
Declarations of Paris Electors on National Power and Law
A fragment from a Paris electors’ instruction to their representatives in the States General proclaims that all power arises from the nation and the general will guides law. It notes the nation’s sole right to grant subsidies, set their amount, and limit their duration, shaping public authority amid upheaval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Privy Council
Obr
Market Lane
Opera House
Vanburgh
John Gallini
Gaal
States-General
France
Rome
Paris
Ricars
Whitehall
Bristol
Botany Bay speculation and voyage expectations
The piece reflects on the Botany Bay expedition stirring public curiosity and debate about its impact on the Parent State. It notes that letters from officers will be shared occasionally, recording journal entries from departure of convicts to their arrival, with nautical calculations and astral observations noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Botany Bay
Tensie Atranomi
Gn Bither
Arrival at Teneriffe and Rio de Janeiro Departure
A traveler’s note describes Teneriffe arrival and departure for Rio de Janeiro. Teneriffe offers little visual pleasure though Santa Cruz can disappoint on the Peake. the town’s white facades contrast with a dreary backdrop. Churches and religious houses at Teneriffe are ornate. Officers meet Marquis de Brancifort, Governor of the Canary Islands, on arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Mother Bank
Tenerife
Phillips
Portsmon
Eing
Ineoke
Sinus
His
Sirius
Ise of
Wight
England
Madeira
Greenwich
Canary Islands
Atlantic
London
Teneriffe
Santa Cruz
Long
Peake
Lagura
Grand Canary
Marquis de Brancifort
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Napier
Pantheon
Shield
Corvette
Scala
Angelo
Chevalier St. George
Sir John Vanburgh
Denis’s
Peter
Potts
Fairbourgh
Reily
Jarvis
Suffolk
Great Yarmouth
Norfolk
Philip Constable
Redmond Barry
Birmingham
Ann Hobson’s
Joseph Davison
Wham
Durham
Queen’s Head
John Potter
Newgate-street
Wholeale Linen-Draper
Christopher Higgs
Whitechapel
Une
William Stevenson
Holborn
Middlesex
James Audas
Stoefley
Yorkshire
John Taylor
Stokesley
Henry Forshaw
Liverpool
King’s Arms
John Copinger
St. Auster
Cornwall
John Cooke
Sendings Mill
Black Swan
John White
Manchester
Grocer
Gregson and
Burdon
Copthall Court
Thomas Swift
John Livesey
John Hargreave
Peter Anslie
Joseph Smith
William Hall
Nightingales
Chorley
Lancaster
Muflin-Manufacturers
Aldridge
Bedford-row
Jeremiah Dawson
Bull’s-Head
Samuel Harvey
Shakespeare Tavern
Robert Green
Wilson
Henry Chendler
James Haworth
Bull’s Head
Uly
Joseph Berry
Callico
Royal Oak Inn
Samuel Filer
West Town
Somerset
Samuel Shaw
Haverfordwest
John Page
Cooper
Thomas Tippetts
New Mills
Dursley
Glocestershire
Jonas
Letster
Rio de Janeiro
Brazils
Hell
Sydney
Worrall
Leake
Little Wenlock
Bridgnorth
Shropshire
Paula Salutaria
Sam
H. Bateman
I. Aylor
Corporation of ‘Surgeons
No.g
New Baipeestaest
J. Rudhall and Co
H. Brown
Quay-treet
Cruttwell
Bath
Evill
Wells
Padley
Swansea
Eaton
Narberth
Edith
Llandilo-Vawr
Potter
Haverforeatnft
Bristol Key
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