Fury in Paris as Federates Attack Guards and Mob
Paris dispatch recounts federates clashing with National Guards in the Champs Elysees and streets. Duhamel murdered, several officers wounded, and petitions torn as crowds chant Petion and La Fayette. Martial bloodshed spreads through the city amid promises of retaliation and a looming Brunswick declaration.
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Certait
Champs-Elysees
Marseillois
Santerre
Thercigne de Mericourt
Myon
Petion
Sauterre
M. Duhamel
Erenadiers
M. DeSamel
Des Petits Peres
A. Roreau de Saint Mery
Constituent Assembly
MM. de Gres
M. Aorguant
M. Perret
Battalion Des Petits Peres
Meulan
le Clerk
Algiers
Tunis
Fez
Morocco
AM. Luckner
M. LaFayette
France
M. de Moxtequien
M. la Fayette
Paris
Duke of Brunswick
National Assembly Debates On War Tax And Guard Duty
The assembly denounces Kell and Balthazar for defection. It discusses open provisions during wartime and orders a tax or service for citizens not registered with the National Guards. A skirmish report with La Fayette’s forces vs Austrians is read. Clergy exceptions and a priest on guard are debated. La Roux named Minister of Public Contributions.
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Kell
Balthazar
Rhine
Marshal Luckner
Des Feuillans
Moon
Department of the North
M. le Roux
Plague reports and naval promotions spill from the London Gazette
From the London Gazette dated August 4 and July 4. Notices announce no Drawing-room at St James's, plague conditions in Constantinople, Salonica, and Athens, and in Archipelago islands. War Office lists officers promoted or transferred including Captains Lieutenants and Major in the Royals. Also sugar prices, enlargements of bankruptcies, and certificates granted. numerous notices from bankrupts to surrender and divers dividends and public acknowledgments to the King from various towns and counties.
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Lord Chamberlain
St. James’s
Constantinople
Salonica
Athens
Peter Sidebottom
Great Portland
Mary-le-bonne
Guildhall
Beckett
New-street
Covent-garden
Peter Murphy
Manchester
Spencer’s Tavern
Ellis
Basinghall-street
Hugh Muir
Liverpool
Lancaster
Hoyle
Cumberland-street
Sudell and Blackstock
William Pyle
Bridgewater
Somersetshire
White Lion
Broad-street
Bristol
Edmunds
Exchequer Office of Pleas
Lincoln’s-inn
John Siscotti
Queen-street
Golden-square
Guild Plal
Bunn
King’s-bench-walks
Temple
Henry Tonkin
Gosport
Inn-Halder
London
Robinson
Temple-lane
Royal Visit and Camp News from Windsor and Bagshot
Reports from Windsor and Bagshot detail the royal family’s noon view of the Bagshot camp, divine service at St George’s Chapel, and dinners at Wimbledon and Bagshot Park. Dispatches from Paris reached Whitehall, with notes on a forthcoming Stockholm diet to consider the late Swedish king’s will.
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Bagshot
Secretary of State
Whitehall
Barl.Gower
His
Paris
Windsor Lodge
Princesses Royal
Aveusta
Evizanera
St. George's Chapel
Windsor
Queen’s Lodge
Dunovas
Tippuo
Stockholm
Sweden
Riots, Royalist Debate, and Guards at the French Assembly
July 30 reports show 5000 troops marching toward Soiffans, rioters assaulting silk cockade wearers, and a motion to issue wool cockades failing. Savoyards seek a free Alloboyotes company while Vergniaud and Brissot denounce weak language against the King. National Guards complain of Marseillois attacks. cries of Long live the King mix with calls to block Marseillois if justice fails. Refered to the executive power.
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Frenme
Home Department
Soiffans
N. B
Meffi
Vergniaud
Brifot
Marseillois
Hifles
Utmof
King
la Fayette
Reader reports on dubious declarations and fiscal decrees in August Diet
A letter fines Hercule reports M Luckner claiming shocking proposals from M la Fayette via M Bureau de Pufy. War Minister blamed for failing to form a free company. Decree stamps 300,000,000 livres in paper. paper mills to run continuously. Estates of the Church vanish. bishops palaces and congregational lands become asset points. Federates press for deference to decrees. Paris guards purged. potential removal of federates from Paris debated. War Minister appears, Bavay evacuated, Le Roux pays homage as Minister of Contributions.
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Hercule
M. Luckner
M. la Fayette
M. Bureau de Pufy
Paris
M. Rowbier
Bavay
Le*Roux
Debates on Soissons Camp As Paris Officials Dispatch Details
July evening report states Mayor of Paris requests 1,800,000 livres to supply Paris with provisions. A long discussion centers on the Soissons camp where Soissons municipal authorities say volunteers lack tents arms and clothing. Decree sets that commissioners from the August Diet will go to Soissons and the Executive Power will announce the commanding general and senior officers.
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Paris
Soissons
Soiffons
Denunciations and measures amid French wartime turmoil
Amid denouncements in the Departingait, officials report a copy of a declaration to the King. Deputies debate sending explanations, with Paris and Landau fearing attack and mobilization orders. Articles authorize arming inhabitants with long pikes named Piques de Marechal de Saxe, to be produced within a month.
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DIA
Anc
Brunswick
Piahees Auirh
Amon
Lerrier-Moncel
Mesfis
Faucher
M. Faue
de la Meuthe
Bollana
T.l
Landau
Poe
France
Valsey
Distrias
Paris
Singular honor code tale sparks fatal Bromley blaze
An American tale of chivalry ends in violence as a carpenter who challenged an officer refuses to yield and a heated confrontation leads to a fatal outcome. A Bromley house fire follows, killing a father, injuring his daughter and leaving the eldest dead from severe burns.
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America
Bromley
Bow
Fuller
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