Royal Army promotions and officer appointments listed
From the London Gazette August 11 details senior officers receiving promotions in the Army in Ireland and various regiments. The list includes Major Generals and Lieutenants Colonel appointments, plus captains and lieutenants across the 1st to 6th Foot regiments and others, with names such as George Morrison Garth Butler and Alexander Stewart, among many. Also noted are credentials of Thomas Pinckney as U.S. minister plenipotentiary and a dated sugar price average for August 1792, alongside multiple bankruptcies and certificates to be granted by September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
wariorFice
1St Foot Guards
Gerald Lake
Samuel Hulse
Albemarle Bertie
Edmund Stevens
Harry Borrard
de Augustus Maitland
Royalsis
Thomas Dickson- Reide
4Th Foot
George Morrison
17Th Foot
George Garth
Granby
Knox
Robert Henry
Foot
Edward Gerald Butler
37Th Foot
William Spread
Alexander Stewart
James Stirling
David Stewart
Alexander Leith
Percy Groves
Agth
James Underdown Milner
David Ormsby
George Grant
Goth Foot
James Abernethy
Joseph Dowde
St. Vincent’s
James Stuart
R. Kilsha
Lord Warder
Cirque
Alexander Ligertwood
Portsmouth
Ireland
George King
Todd
Great Britain
Viscount Macartney and wartime intrigues in London
London report notes Lord Macartney is created Viscount of Ireland and to be hosted by the India Company directors at the London Tavern with plans for Portsmouth aboard the Lion. Captain Ossorne of the Vestal is praised by the East India Company for triumphs in India amid political commentary from Paris to London on French events and English debt. The piece mentions game laws, policing, debtors’ regulation, a Vauxhall Gardens incident leading to a fine, and Durham Assizes reporting John Frazier's death sentence for horse stealing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Macartney
Viscount Macartney
Kingdom of Ireland
The
India Company
London
Portsmouth
Ossorne
Vestal
Taree Hunorep
East India Company
India
WM. Pituron
Paris
France
Pertrice
Everal
Westminster Abbey
Coxer
Lord Romney
Maidstone
King’s Bench
Vauxhall Gardens
Durham
John Frazier
English Nobleman and Cottage Dispute At Hertford Assizes
Joan Nicholls sues Hucy Hume Camptery Earl of Marchmont in a case over encroachments and walling that blocked a right of way and damaged the plaintiff's house. Sir Henry Gould presided as the matter, including Fielding's dramatic address defending a private grievance. After lengthy testimony and threats of appeal, a compromise with costs and damages was reached, staying further proceedings.
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Henry Gould
Nicholls
Earl of Marchmont
Court of King’s Bench
Fielding
Germany
London
Herel Hempstead
Scotland
Plaitiff
Mostar
Court of King’s
King’s Bench
Jong
Witheffen
Proclamation in the English Fobins in Uproar Scene
An 18th century satire dramatizes Proclamation clashes among Gilberts and patriots. Characters like Tom Paine and Horne Tooke clash with Proclamation Prace, debating rights of man, democracy, and state authority amid fear of suppression and a doomed insurrection.
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Brittain
Jacos
Bob Cock
Jacourv
Bozsgy
Tom Paine
Paine
Nickia
Jaconry
Horne Tooke
H. Took
Botsy
Crerx
Doctor Paiestley
G. Rous
Gallia
Jaconin
Calais
Dover
Royal Week at Windsor and London Society Notes
Public day observed as King Levee. Prince of Wales Duchess of York and attendants paid respects at Windsor Lodge. Royal family attended divine service at St George Windsor. Lord Cornwallis and others attended a masquerade and supper with lavish feast. court life and travels of nobles noted. Spanish liberal reforms and European map curiosities also reported amid parliamentary critique and Athens plagues.
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St. James’s
Prince of Wales
York
Windsor
Lodge
Roya
Aucusta
Kit
Dr. Wilson
Foa
Queen’s Loy
Earl Cornwalls
Mrpaws
Gener Cromair
Pitt
O'Hara
Caruise
Castle Howard
Yorkshire
Lord Courtenay
Powderham Casstle
Devonshire
Méderid
Hine M. p’Aranpad
Spain
Europe
Duches de San Estevan
Countess de Galvex
Corcere
Paris
London
Kingdom of
France
Chambers
Treasury
House of Commons
Mesits
Hakerson
Norra
Grisnfby
Lincoln
Naea
Brivy
Fannie
Island of
St. John’s
Athens
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London Gazette
T. James’s
Thomas Pinckney
United States of America
Robert Caitley
Worship-square
Mosrhelds
Horsedealer
Guildhall
William Read
Lascelles East Indiaman
Mariner
Bankrupys
John Jupp
St. Giles In the Fields
Parry
City Chambers
Francis Hewitt
Watling-street
Scott
Mildred’s Court
Poultry
William Luke Adams
Panton-street
Haymarket
Mercer
Barnell
Spitalfields
Ann Wilkes
William David Wilkes
Tert
Atternes
Mefis
Ludlow and Roberts
Philip Millar
Mile-end
Acten
Atterney
Belfour
Joseph Atlay
Bristol
Rummer-tavern
All Saints
Anc
Pearson
Temple
Trevor Nicholas
Chepstow
Monmouthshire
George Inn
Benjamin Hewer
Exeter
Bath-tavern
Corn-street
Thomas Harrison
Thomas Brewstery
Crosby-square
Josep Burnett
Blackfriars-road
John Cracknell
John Venable
Nightingale-Jane
East Smithfield
Henry Birkett
Birmingham
Vis
Diocese of
Norwich
Marischall College
University of Aberdeen
Clercy
Archideaconry
Cleveland
County of
Royal Burgh
Dumbarton
Hertford
Joan Nicholls
Hucy Hume Camptery
Earl of
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