Appointment changes and military promotions in Britain
The King appoints Thomas Harley as Lieutenant Custos Rotulorum of Radnor in place of the late Earl of Oxford. Alexander Jardine becomes Consul in Galicia Asturias and St Andero. Numerous army promotions and appointments across the 4th to 69th Dragoons and other regiments are listed, including Major John Whitelocke and Captain William Gordon, with various officers moving to new ranks. Isle of Ely Assizes items note surrender dates for several debtors and tradesmen, with hearings set at Guildhall and related attorney details.
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Thomas Harley
Coun ‘Ty
Radnor
Earl of Oxford
Alexander Jardine
Galicia
Asturias
St. Andero
Flerman Scatencam
Ireland
4Th
Dragoon Guards
Wiliam Ogilvie
Sth Dragoons
William Leeson
Spicer
13Th Dragoons
John Robbins
14Th Dragoons
John Cravan
69Th Foot
Norton Charles Martelli
James Richard Coates
War Office
Dragoons
Thomas Mervin Medlycott
Foot
Lloyd Hill
Foot Guards
Edward Stephens
Hutton Rowe Spencer
John Thomas
Armistrong
13Th Foot
John Whitelocke
Coonel
Royal Irish
Charles Dunlop
Andrew Foster
Augustus Colman
John Gardiner
John Oswald
Comanysus — Ath Foot
William Windham Dalling
Royal Highland
Royal family movements and society events report
Monday morning dispatch notes Mayesties and three elder Princisties leaving Buckingham for Windsor. Prince of Wales arrives at Carlton House from Kempshot hunting seat. Royal family attend divine service at St James's Chapel Royal. Queen hosts Drawing Room. Duke of Leros delivers letters from Lord-Auckland. Royal visit to Lady HoDERNEssE’s described as a family gathering with dancing. Purser of the Northumberland reports final dispatches from East India House. Lord Hoop to hoist flag on Victory at Portsmouth. Bank Directors and Mr. Prrt interview coverage. minister’s likely acceptance of offer. Prrt’s Commons motion aims to clarify income and expenditure for 1786–89. Commentary on potential North Sea dangers and naval risks.
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Mayesties
Buckingham Howe
Windsor
Royal
the Prince of Wales
Carlton-house
Kempshot
Hants
Magisti
Princesses Royal
Augustia
Exizabeth
Chapel Royal
St. James's
Bishop of
St. Asap
East India
Lord Hoop
Portsmouth
Prrt
House of Commons
Lord Rawdon
House of Lords
North Seas
Alweirs
CORN BILL AND DUTIES ON IMPORTED GRAIN AND BEER
A set of resolutions approved by the House of Commons establishes import duties on wheat rye barley maize and beer based on middling British price tiers. Duties rise for Ireland Quebec and other British colonies and vary for foreign countries, with separate rates for grain meal and flour.
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Ireland
Quebec
North America
Duels, dispatches, and royal movements in 18th century notices
A Friday messenger set off for Berlin with dispatches, with a possible detour to Petersburgh. Duke of Clarence assumes Petersham villa ownership. Sir James Campbell may enter Parliament for Stirling. Epward II proceeds from Gibraltar to Canada with his regiment. Dowager Duchess of Cuanpos travels to Lincolnshire under Dr Willis. Various society notices include marriages, inherits, and property concerns. Reports mention unclaimed dividends, Irish earldom, and political shifts around Poland and Prussia including Dantzic Theron. A Lisbon mail reaches after twelve days aboard the Expedition Packet.
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Berlin
Petersburgh
Duke of Clarence
Petersham
Lord Camelford
James Campbell
Stirling
A. Campbell
Prince Epward
Gibraltar
Canada
Cuanpos
Lincolnshire
Willis
Bristol
Guwnine
Mademoiselle D
Loruaine
Lord Verney
County of Bucks
Marquis of
Thufreto
John DasHwoop
Butter
Ki Éap
Ireland
Ormond
Poyning
Warsaw
Dantzic and
Thorne
Prussia
Prisoners Sentenced to Death at Warwick Assizes
At Warwick county assizes several prisoners were convicted and sentenced to death. Wm Gill Edward Harris William Terry and George Beeby were condemned for burglary at Brinklow. Francis Reynolds alias Rogers for robbing Mrs Batkin. Elizabeth Smith 19 Mariah Wainwright 18 Phoebe Healey 20 for assault and robbery at a house of ill fame. The three former were left for execution.
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Warwick
Wm. Gill
Edward Harris
William Terry
George Beeby
Brinklow
Francis Reynolds
Rogers
T. Smith
French ship driven ashore off Mullion in March
La Ville de Paris, a 250 ton French vessel carrying 400 barrels of oil and Whale bone, with tusks and cargo, foundered near Mullion. Of 21 crew only three survived, after eight hours on a rock in twelve o'clock night and heavy seas. Dispatches for Government from the Cape of Good Hope were lost with the ship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mullion
la Ville de Paris
William Rig
Dunkirk
France
Africa
Cape of Good Hope
Stattray
Arrest Of Mlle Tuerorons pe Mrricourt At Liege Border
Reports from Brussels and Versailles describe the arrest of Mademoiselle Tuerorons near Liege by Austrian forces. An officer will escort her to Vienna for a strict examination to be published Europe wide by Imperial order. The piece also notes political shifts in Paris and frontier insurgent activities at Berg op Zoom, with broader reflections on press legality and public crime in London.
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Mademoiselle Tuerorons Pe Mrricourt
Chatelet
Versailles
Liege
Vienna
Europe
Paris
Baron de Senrrr Pe Pitsaca
BisHorp
Brussels
Berg-op- Zoom
Vaypernoot
Euren
Constantinople
Mediterranean
Black Sea
Octaxow
Oczakov
Mahometan Empire
Pocket Philosophical Society
Slater
Low
Bow-street
Moorfields
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London Gazette
Whitebatl
Isle OF Ely-Assizes
Erates York
Morton Levy
Michael, Levy
St. Paul
Coventgarden
Marg
Guildhall
Mr. Cocker
Gerardstreet
Soho
John Mackenzie
Golden Lane
Carpenter
Welch and Rutherford
Aldergate Street
James Thompson
Horforth
Yorkshire
Mr. Battye
Castle-street
Holborn
Nicholas Ridgeway
Stoke Newington
George Colebrooke, Bart
London
Nian
Richard, Walford
Henry Yorke Webb
Birminghall
Dudley’s
Birmingham
Robert Sugden
Aldgate
Richard Watts
Llandinan
Montgomeryshire
Henry Ellis
Old-street
Huse of Commons
Sollow
Penzance
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