Court report from Whitehall and royal drawing room
Yesterday afternoon at Lord Grenville's Office officials discussed dispatches to Paris while Princess Augusta and Elizabeth visited St James's for a drawing room. Parliament may reconvene to vote armament funds amid buoyant foreign credit and speculation over the Duke of York's betrothal to a Prussian princess.
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Courcil
Lord Grenville
Whitehall
Port
Duke of Ricn Monp
Spenerartes
Earl] Gower
Paris
Princesses Royal
Augusta
Exizabeth
Kew Palace
St. James's
Lieutreep
Raenard Hitz
Countess of Hy Iprorp
Arly
Berlin
Duke of York
Frederica of
Prufsiayns
Foreign’ Gazettes
Germany
Prussia
Frederick
Mediterranean
Prusian
Burke
Sheripan
Fox
Sheridan
Marquis of Antrim
National Assembly
O Iuan
Oxford
Cambridge
Dééres
Italy
Duke of Queensbury
Tip
Charles
Prince of Wales
Buckingham
Madrid Ixag
Infanta
France moves to suppress birth based orders and honours
The National Assembly debated decrees to suppress orders based on birth and rank, restrict military decorations to civic rewards, and prohibit foreigners from holding French honors. It bars Frelichmanns from restoring former titles and instructs committees to draft punishments for infringements while planning laws on governor rights for the Dauphin and reporting insurrection at L Orient by artillery officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
St. Louis
Frelichmann
M. Branchet
National Assembly
M. Freteau
M. de Sequeville
L’orient
Oficer
Renovations at Haymarket Opera House Alter the Interior
Plans by Mr Suexrpan and Mr Taycor convert the upper box tier into a gallery, add hinged partitions to fold boxes, and install movable benches. The back gallery will rise two feet to form a Three-shilling Gallery on opera nights, with the Pitt and orchestra left intact and the playhouse to accommodate about 1601 more patrons than Drury Lane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suexrpan
Taycor
Haymarket Opera House
Drury Lane
Drurylane
Drury-lane
North Carolina
Secret Meeting of British Officers at Cadiz
A fragment recalls Sir Eric Coote during the late War in the Carnatic exposing himself to enemy fire and sun, while an officer warned him to move. Coote quipped that the sun has no more effect on him than a deal beat, prompting further remarks about sun exposure and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eric Coote
Cadiz
di Caniz
Plans to raise the Royal George and a blind Carlisle craftsman
Reports discuss two experimental schemes to raise the Royal George vessel with Archangel ships and air–cilled casks, noting the project may take months. Also told is the life of Joseph Strong a stone blind diaper-weaver in Carlisle, who built furniture and an organ after unlocking the cathedral doors, and later married the organist’s former partner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
France
Spain
Europe
North America
Archangel
Royal George
Carlisle
Joseph Strong
Strong
Isle of Mann
Races at Brighton DrawCrowd and Royal Attention
Overflowing crowds fill the Brighton racecourse with fine weather fueling nightly amusements. The Prince of Wales arrived in an open landau with six black horses, Lord Daneymore drove six greys, and the Duke of Marrscropex plans extended stay. Pickpockets targeted attendees near the railing as balls and theatre performances drew strong attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince of Wales
Jon Lavé
Daneywore
Duke of Marrscropex
Brighton
Sis Grace
Fragile Hope Amid Refugees and Indian Threats
The piece notes British sympathy for French refugees in Jersey while detailing American general Scot’s Kentucky operations and anticipated clashes with hostile Indian divisions. It also reports harvest promise after late rains, a hooded crow nest, an ancient oak’s dimensions and value, a Margate coachman’s drowning, naval stores theft at Plymouth, robberies near Blackheath and Clapton, and a Craven Court woman aided by a stranger before exposing family distress at Seven Dials.
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Jersey
Campaieti
Kentucky
Pitthburgiy
Muskingum
United States
Pittburgh
Eckford
Northumberland
Sir John Resnout
Northwick
Blockley
Worcestershire
Margate
Plymoth
Mevagiffey
Exeter
Warren
Essex
Blackheath
Miss Hunt
High Hill Ferry
Upper Clapton
Watts
Church Row
Hampstead
Craven Court
Strand
Old Bailey
Seven ‘Dials
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Watignal Assembly
Oran
Moos
Gibraltar
Madrid
Great-Britain
Sie Eyre Coote
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