Armaments Accelerated as Admlty Hires Reinforcements
Daviz reports the Admiralty in Madrid dispatched orders to hasten fleet armaments. Docks employ workers of all trades and fortifications are being strengthened. Paris notes the English king's recovery sparks celebrations in Fauxbourgh St Germain and at the English coffee house. Sieur Vilatte, once detained at The Hague for alleged plans against the Orange party, is moved to a new confinement site.
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Madrid
Paris
England
Fauxbourgh St. Germain’s
Sieur Vilatte
Ogober
Hague
Orange Party
Ignor Gonetti
Cooper's Hall
King-Street
Inft
Mr. Diller
Lyceum
London
Signor Gonetti
Youn
Europe
King
Royal Academy of Sciences
Diller
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Addresses Presented to the King by City of Bristol and Buffalo
From the London Gazette March edition a humble address from the Mayor and Burgesses of Bristol with Common Council, praising the King’s recovery and expressing loyalty and prayers for his health. Also notes addresses delivered to the King by Lord Sydney’s delegation and received graciously.
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London Gazette
Lord Sydney
Home Department
Buffol
Bristol
Sribol
Royal congratulations and early 18th century notices
The letter from the Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol congratulates the king on restored health and hails providence guiding the nation. The March 64 date notes royal commissions and bills. Gazette items list congratulatory addresses from multiple counties, cities, and institutions to the queen, plus appointments in Hull and Berwick.
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Bristol
Royal Agen
Archbishop of
Canterbury
Old Sydney
Weltminder
Harry Houle
Ely
Mr. Fox
Lord Townhend
Mgt
Wvetham
Pontefract
Rippon
Dumfries
Inverary
University of
Hull
Witliam Cathell
Jius Fur Garette
Abolition Debate and Election Act Protests in Lords and Commons
In Parliament, petitions from Norfolk and Oxford officials challenge the county election registering act. A second reading of the repeal bill is postponed to Friday. Wilberforce moves for full papers on the slave trade, aiming to a June inquiry, and hints at abolition. Lord Penrhyn questions compensation to African merchants and West Indies creditors.
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House of Commons
Norfolk
Oxford
Wilberforce
Sefmon
Ilberforce
Wolberforce
Penrhyn
West Indies
Abolition Debate and Revolution Commemoration in Parliament
The House discusses war slavery issues with Mr Wilberforce urging muster rolls from London Bristol and Liverpool 1785 to 1789. Beaufoy pushes a Revolution commemoration motion seeking annual prayer and a Bill mirroring Magna Carta and Bill of Rights read in church each year, with clerks reciting prayers for November 5.
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Houtse
West India Islands
Cafingderoft
Gascoyne
Wilberforce
London
Bristol
Liverpool
Africa
West Indies
Beaufoy
Fie
Richard Hill
Pitt Medallions Honor and News From London 1780
London news details the Speaker ordering a hundred gold medallions for Mr. Pitt, remarks on King George III's health, Prince William Henry's Jamaica arrival, Chancery term dates at Lincoln's Inn, charity events at St Paul’s, the William Pitt East India voyage from Bengal, unusual early bird song reports, French congratulations to the sovereign, a devastating Leicester Fields fire rescued by Mr Heath, and Plymouth dispatches from Botany Bay noting harsh conditions and convict executions.
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House of Commons
Pitt
Europe
G. Baker
Prince William Henry
Barbadies
Jamaica
Lincoln's Inn Hall
Westminster Hall
St. Paul’s Cathedral
William Pitt
Michel
Dover
Bengal
The
Downs
Apri
Hackney
Count de Luzerne
Harcourt
Heath
Leicester-street
Leicester Fields
Princes Street
Convict voyage notes ships to England amid losses and births
A historical dispatch reports on a voyage to England with convicts, noting Captain Maxwell and Captain Mason among the dead, the Golden Grove and Fifpburn sailing mid October, and general health improvements. It records births, infant mortality, and some cannibal encounters among escaped convicts, plus agricultural progress and various 18th century tradesmen and merchants listed by date.
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Phlyone
Maxwell
London
Mason
Prince of Wales
Golden Grove
Fifpburn
England
Pr. of Wales
Thomas Penton
Paddington
William Turley
Thames-street
William Bateman
Thomas Bolt
Lower Thames-street
Thomas Simpson
Gateshead
Durham
John Ames
Frating
Thomas Houghton
Liverpool
Michael Alcock
William Kempton
Birmingham
Swan
Ball-street
Robert Noyes Cooper
Bristol
White Lion
Broad-street
Bristol Infirmary Apothecary Elections 1789 Notices
A trio of public notices from March 1789 seeks votes for apothecary positions at Bristol Infirmary. Dyer, Yeld, and Griffiths announce candidacy hopes and cite medical credentials, hospital experience, and endorsements from physicians to win subscribers’ support.
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Baister
Foreign affairs report on Britannic recovery celebrated
The foreign department announces the complete recovery of his Britannic Majesty. Sir Chevalier de Pinon, now Prime Minister, weeps with joy at court while the fakultary marks the event with feline-style celebration. The Queen sends handwritten felicitations to the Sovereign and his court.
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Chevalier de Pin O
Foreign Department
King’s recovery noted. Hanoverian visit talked of soon
London reports reveal the King’s health improving and plans for his Hanoverian dominions, with the Queen likely to accompany him. Lords Justices would govern in his absence. A General Court at East India House discussed addresses to the King and Queen, while other items include a post office resignation, Humane Society donations, and fisheries governance updates.
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London
St. Pauls
East India House
Robert Anslie
Constantinople
Windsor Lodge
Humane Society
Lettrom
Washington
America
London Tavern
Society For
Dempster
Great Britain
William Pitt
East-India Company
Guntoor
Earl Cornwallis
Sabah
Guntoor Circar
Delhi
Gholam “Kadar Dawn
Madajee Scindia
Scindia
Johander Shaw
Benares
Chunar
Shore
Supreme Council
Sir Archibald Campbell
Patna
India
Bengal
Court of Justice
Court of Justice, Upon Its Fui
Privy Council
Nanderah Begum
East India Company
Calcutta
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Keyntham
Samuel Skule
Tuo
Stevens
Stoney Till
Thomas Bones
Parkers
Clarke
Bristol Infirmary
M* Griffiths
Buflo
Sam
T. W. Dyer
William Dyer
Redcliff
Griffiths
St. Bartholomew's
Thomas Yeld
Temple-Gate
Thomas Cauldtring
Kingtdown- Parade
John Peters
Thomas-street
Ostrica
Durdham-Down
Guinea
Xanthus
Mr. Croxe
Duke of Devonire
Atlas
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R.grist
Bishford
Long-Ashton
Exchange
William Pollard
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Thomas Hayes
Makine Society
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Small-street
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