News and notices from London and Paris during upheaval
The London Gazette reports Cobourg’s capture of Aker man port with fifteen hundred prisoners. Pickett takes Mayoralty seat at Guild Hall. Paris reports corn distress, bakers’ plots, and subsistence measures opposed by aristocratic power. Mirabeau and Neckar debate coalition as state trials loom.
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Vienna
Germany
Marshal de Saxe Cobourg
Akerman
Black Sea
Loxpon
Pickett
Eleé
Guildhall
Gaz
Paris
Rutledge
Hotel de Ville
Mirabeau
M. Neckar
Royal regulation limits reading dispatches after 4 pm
London reports a royal rule advised by physicians to spare the monarch after four o'clock. Debates in the National Assembly cover clergy property, stipends, and church lands. A proposed parish rector stipend of 1600 livres is discussed alongside a wealthy offer from Aix for church lands. The Assembly also bars monastic vows and notes shifts in power and potential peace terms with the Porte.
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Windsor
National Assembly
Aix
France
National-Assembly
Great Britain
Paffarowitz
House of Austria
Ancur
Moldavia
Romania
Staz
Sher
Porte
Wallachia
Bellarabia
Bender
Potemkin
Hospodares
Porte Thal
Rufsia
Europe
Bath Society
John Durbin
Bourn
Barford
Salisbury
Harrold
Frorné
White
Thomas Willis
Redmund Barry
Eiq
Wm. Crofey
Pickwick
Wy Matthews
Empress terms and British affairs amid US harvest shifts
The article notes Empress driven terms as disinterested in appearance but covertly serving Russian influence via Potemkin. royal accounts show Duke of Clarence settling a large plate bill after adjusting charges. Paris reports strong US harvests flooding European markets while Florence endures an earthquake. Cambridge awards and a missing Senior Proctor body are noted, plus a Botany Bay convict transport.
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Crim Tartary
Potemkin
Mortcaster
Duke of Clarence
Royal
Paris
Philadelphia
United States of America
Europe
Florence
Wm. Pearce
Jesus College
Yarmouth
Connor
Wardour-street
Soho
Clipstone-street
D’arcy Wentworth
Bow-street
Newgate
Botany Bay
Marriages and obituaries across towns and a medical cure
Lord Winchelsea and others wed in Devon and Worcester while deaths occur in Herefordshire and Scotland. A Taunton notice extols Mr Spilsbury's drops with a dramatic testimonial about Edward Roberts describing his son Jonathan’s cure from an acrobatic humour. The announcement cites sales at Smalle Secret printing office and merchants across Britain and Ireland.
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Burter
Woodbury
Devon
Farr
Salterton
Chebsey
Stafford
John Child
Cheadle
Colclough
Shawford
John Colclough
Monmouth
Thomas Jo Kins
Elizabeth Jones
Claines
Ford
Worcester
Arrowsmith
Leopard
M. Clarke
Hill
Ross
Herefordshire
Leominster
James Scarlet
Seward
Thac Seward
Westlake
Thomas Westlake
Exeter
Rothsay
Island of Bute
John Muir
Gift Regiment
Prestonpans
James Reid
Robert Wrednall Thompton
Dav Or Thompson
Grenada
Danvers Graves
67Th Regiment of Foot
Taunton
Jonathan Roberts
Edward Roberts
Willington
Somersetshire
Mr. Sotbury
Sir
C. Edward Roberts
Bristol Universal Tontine Association
MeTrs
Deane, Whitehead
L. B. Larwill
Bristol
Maryport-street
Mesfrs
Harrison and Co
Pater-noster-Row
Scollick
City-Road
Marfom
High
Daniel
Carmarthen
Jenkins
Haverfordwest
Messrs. Phillips
Swansea
J. Bird
Cardiff
Vaughan
Caerphilly
White
Pontypool
Warner
Abergavenny
Whitchurch
Bridge-street
Bath
Spencer
Shepton- Mallet
Inman
Bridgwater
Matringall
J. Woolmer
Tremlett
Yotnes
Kinsman
Plymouth
Blundtone
Falmouth
Lathy
Barnstaple
Acland
Tiverton
Birmingham
Coventry
Manchester
Kingdom
Stamp-Ofice
London
Great Britain
T. Wood
Inspector of Lottery Offices
Stamp-Office
Shergold
Debated Constitutional Advice Amid Parliamentary Tension
In the National Assembly the King and Ministers seek advice on constitutional fixes while disputes arise over voting. Some MPs object to ministers guiding policy arguing it undermines liberty and that without prior communication parliamentary members may mislead the public.
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Ragland
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Queen
Spritsbury
Soho Square
Jashua Toulmin
John Poole
Abraham Shorland
Rodbert Gibson
Matter
Richa Tombs
Caron
Stamp Office
Somerset-place
Thomas Woop
Lords
His Majesty’s Treasury
Thomas Wood
Ts Majesty
Henry Shergold
Humphry Shergold
Hugh Shergold
Lombard-street
Middlesex
Shergold.and Co
H. Shergold
State Lottery
Tach
Tranviele Bretid
Bristow
Sata C' Vines
N. B. Kersrmere
Martin and Jenkins
Ifine-Street
Pater
Tipmarsh
Ugh Thurston Martin
Uther
Joseph Jenkins
Oliver and Ridout
Messrs
Pater and
Tipmarsx
Bregben
R.C
N. B
White-Hart
George Phelps
C. Melsom
Queen’s Head
Upper Easton
St. George
Glocester
Bristol Exchange
Richarp
Jacobs
Queen Square
Broadmead
Queen’s
Somerset
Etsorough
Hutton
Hutton- Moor
Samuel Hearse
Symons
Exchange
Valence
Thaia
Bourgoin
Vienne
Dauphiny
D’ Aiguillon
Committee of Finance
Versailles
M. Bouch
M- de Mirabeau
O’ Aiguillon
Caisle d’Escompre
United States
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