France in crisis as Civil List and elections loom
From Paris on August 23 the Civil Life becomes the bone of contention with Jacobins pushing for reduction. They claim 5,000,000 livres remain to honor the King of the French. News from the French West Indies is dire, with unsettled states and bread price pressures fueling fear of broader collapse. The era’s intrigue, colonists’ distress, and royal hesitation set a critical moment unmatched in France.
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West India Islands
France
Calais Money Seizure Sparks Uproar and Fear
Yesterday several bags of French money were seized while being shipped for England. The alarm bell rang the drum beat and a two hour uproar drew soldiers and national guards to arms. The money was housed in the town and restored to calm. Townspeople suspect a plan to aid malcontents and aristocrats aiming to attack frontiers.
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England
Calais
Bank of England
Levee audience and riots noted in London gossip
Yesterday the King received petitions from Warwick and Birmingham dissenters after Levee events. Cabinet dinners welcomed Count de Mercy. News covers a Lottery loan rate, highway robberies, and a major Deptford fire with dockyard aid and a Phoenix fireman injured.
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le Comte de Mercy
St. James's
William Fawcer
War Office
Rosert Lawrey
George A. W. Suucksurch
Joan Tay Lor
Dundas
Thant
Warwick
Birmingham
Erson
Count de Mercy
London
Brighton
Knapp
Kino
Old Bailey
John Mead
Walter Carradine
Red Lion-street
Holborn
Oseph Hunt
Alias Riley
Daniel Bango
John Finch
Deptford
Merris
Rackett
Jones
Mann
Phoenix Office
Rioters in Birmingham Case Destroys Ryland House
Jonathan Ryland’s Birmingham dwelling is target of July mob action. Trials heard for Joseph Careless William Hands James Watkins and Daniel Rose, ring-leader charged, with verdicts of Not Guilty or Guilty as jury weighed riotous demolition and arson in Easy Hill and Zarp Hill areas. Prosecution urged justice under English law while defence stressed lenity for youth.
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Richard Perryn
Birmingham
Joseph Careless
Warwick
John Ryland
Easy Hill
Newham
Mr. Ryland
Europe
House of Hanover
Ryland
Elizabeth Grice
Baron Perryn
William Hands
Hammonds
Willam Hands
Easy Hive
Newman
Phe
S Tate
James Watkins
Zarp Hill
Afton
Newmam
Taylor
Clarke
Sentence of death ordered for Warwick rioters in monarchical trial
The judge condemned Francis Field alias Rodney John Green Bartholomew Fisher and William Hands for feloniously setting fire to a dwelling and demolishing a dwelling house. The court declared the offence very unusual and alarming, meriting public execution to deter depredations. Four rioters and others were ordered to be executed on September 8 near Warwick.
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Francis Field
Rodney
John Green
Bartholomew Fisier
Wiliam Hands
Birmingham
Ldweard Brown
William Millington
Warwick
Warwick jurors seek excusal from Birmingham riot trial
Several jurymen from Birmingham asked the Warwick judge to excuse them citing their distance and knowledge of riot causes. Mr. Coke, Nottingham MP, argued for the Crown and was criticized for calling prisoners vagabond fellows. The piece praises presumption of innocence and recalls a past Old Bailey remark about Mother Brown.
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Warwick
Birmingham
Coke
Nottingham
Norfolk
Mother Brownnrit
Old Bailey
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Paris
Carais
Dugus
Londoon
Warwick Asshies
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