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Turbulent Geneva politics and royal notices spill into public view
The General Council debates burgher guard rules at the Hotel de Ville amid widespread unrest. Reports from Paris and Warsaw discuss fresh legal changes, royal refusals, and arms seizures. Telegrams note German and Danish ties, Dutch whale catches, and appointments in Britain and Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gid
Hotel de Ville
Little Council
feVille
Bérne
Zurich
Geneva
Beri
Paris
the India Company
Academy of Sciences
Versailles
Sis
Holland
Saxe-Hlldbourghauen
Munich
Hugh Smithton
Yorkshire
William Wyndham
Earl of Berkeley
Caroline Sackville
Duke of Dorset
Lord Foley
Elizabeth Seymour
Earl of Hertford
Duke of Somerset
Levinge
Ursula Moore
Lempit Lane
Verdi
Moore
Churcheyard
Distin&ion
Vicorinus
Ottoman Empire
Germany
Oldenburgh
Denmark
Warsaw
Negropont
Bashan
Bender
Niefter
Nimirov
Tapis
Widdin
Nicopolis
Danube
Zwernick
Bosnia
Bashaw
Tabernick
Co Ases
John Duke of Montague
Petersburgh
Admiralty
Karrafs
Baffar
Count Lafcy
Antigua
Edward Walpole
Robert Walpole
Duke of Devonshire
Ireland
Palle Mall
West-Chester
Messrs
Blume and
Gringling