Parliament session records a debt case ruling
In the English Parliament on February 9 the Marquis of Bath took his seat as counsel argued for Arbuthnot Appellant against Small Respondent. The court affirmed the Court of Sessions decree in favor of the Respondent with costs, noting the case as oppressive and unusually decided without the Respondent's counsel. The House adjourned to the next day.
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John Arbuthnot
Arbuthnot
Court of Sessions
Sol.cotts
Debate on felons and Botany Bay convicts in the Commons
Sir Charles Bunbury called attention to convict disposal and jail conditions amid rising crime. Discussions covered volumes of convicts bound for Botany Bay, the state of Botany Bay, and costs and provisions for the settlement. The House approved inquiries into transport expenses and settlement administration, then adjourned as the Felons Bill faced a procedural count-out.
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Sir C. Bunbury
Sir Charles
Mr. Howard
Botany Bay
England
New South Wales
Zekyl
Botany
Bay
Pit
Powys
Wilberforce
Mainwaring
Montague
Pitt
Buxton
Powy
Sir Charles Bunpury
Royal levee and European affairs in London society
London reports detail a one o’clock levee at St James's with new dignitaries presented to the King, followed by audiences with Cabinet ministers and a royal concert. It notes military movements on the Windsor road,印度 and Ismail siege actions, and Empress Catherine’s bold stance amid European tensions, including rewards to Colonel de Suben for bringing news of carnage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James’s
Viscount Stopford
Earl of Courtown
Col
Marrianp
Earl of Lauderdale
Capt. Vauchan
Earl of
Supreme Court of Judicature
Bengal
Grenville
le Comte du Pont
France
Buckingham House
Tottenham-street
Windsor Road
Bank
Pir
Pirt
Lord Grenville
St. James’s Square
Duke of Norfolk
India
Holland
Russia
Mediterranean
Pitt
Warren Hastings
House of Commons
House of Lords
Hastings
Soputa
Gloucester
Europe
Richard Steele
National Assembly
Louis
Lord Bcremont
Sussex
Copenhagen
Denmark
Baltick
Danube
Ripas
de Suwarow
Varna
Petersburg
Ismail
de Suben
St. George
Strikes and unrest spread in Alsace amid Paris debates
Abroad reports describe riots in Strasbourg and insults to authorities in Obernheim and Rosheim. Clergy and others stir sedition as National Guard imagery is desecrated. Mirabeau’s leadership is mocked while Defilles’s memorial ceremony triggers emotional display.
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Strasbourg
Weiffembourg
Saterbourg
National Assembly
Obernheim
Rosheim
Alsace
M.de Mirabeau
Young Defilles
Nancy
Ciace
M Munier
St. Domingo
M.de Garcy d’ Arcy
National
France
Verisailles
Ottoman Prisoner Exchange And Army Recruiting Worries
In Constantinople on December 14 1790 the Grand Vizier reports army weakness and recruiting difficulties as the Reis Effendi substitutes warn of issues. Austrian prisoners held in Seven Towers and Arsenal will be freed and sent to Rufcug for exchange, with the first detachment leaving on the 6th under a Turkish officer and a French ambassador interpreter.
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Reis Effendi
Asia
Baron of Herefert
Porte
Rufciug
Metternich to Join Government as Plenipotentiary Minister
From Brussels comes news that Count de Metternich will become Minister Plenipotentiary once Count Mercy Argenteau completes the first stage of the new government. The Governors General plan to return soon, keeping outward calm while party tensions remain active. The old revolutionary faction seeks to bar loyalists from posts, despite their return.
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Count de Metternich
Count of Mercy Argenteau
Belgic Congress
The Duke of Martporoucu Gem Book Valued Highly
The Duke of Martporoucu's Gem Book with copper plates by Bartelzz is praised as the most valuable publication yet. Two volumes, 100 engravings, 200 copies, 150 guineas offered. Crowned heads and universities received copies. plates explained in Latin and French. George Aylett, charged with forging a twenty five pound draft, remanded to Newgate for trial at Old Bailey sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Aylett
House of Meilrs
Prescot, Grete, and Co
Sloop Union Crew Rescued After Fifty-one Hours at Sea
A windstorm drove the sloop Union of Colchester ashore in the Swin Burrows. Captain Hinton and three men and a boy clung to the mast and rigging for over fifty hours, living on half a biscuit as waves battered them. A Barking Hog's vessel spotted them, enabling rescue and transfer to Colne Point where surgeons expect full recovery despite frostbite and possible toe loss.
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Union
Hinton
Colchester
London
Colne Point
Daniel Blyth
Tippoo's Army and East Indiaman Forces In Debate
A historical note reports Tippoo's Regulars and His Majesty's Forces in the East with a June 1790 return dated January 1791. It discusses the Earldom succession question caused by a triple-brother arrangement, then describes a Whitehaven landslide on the northeast town edge collapsing old coal works and triggering pit floods, drowning two men a woman and five horses.
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Masesty
Inovius
Dunsar
Whitehaven
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Bath
Botany-Bay
Paris
Fed
Constantinople
Brussels
Fai
Country News
Tippoo's Army
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