Wattenatt List Delivers Military Promotions and Surrenders
His Majesty appoints John Hughes Horatio Spry William Souter Harrie Innis James Francis Perkins and Maurice Wemyss as Colonels in the Army from Marines. Notices reveal surrender dates for various boroughs include Huntingdon Monmouth Tav idock and more with Attornies and Guildhall postings. Certificates to be granted before January 25 for Robert Shepherd James Murphy.
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Marines
Army
John Hughes
Horatio Spry
William Souter
Harrie Innis
James Francis Perkins
Maurice Wemyss
Robert Shepherd
Somerton
Somersetshire
James Murphy
Liverpool
Political ripples and court news from Whitehall to Downing Street
Dispatches from Paris reach the Duke of Leeds, Grattan plans an Irish bill, and Pitt hosts MPs at Downing Street. Bank crisis talks probe government control of unclaimed dividends. Military actions in Russia and Turkey, race-based color theories, and a medical cat experiment on tobacco oil conclude this morning’s notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Lrees
Whitehall
Earl Gower
Paris
Sir Grerce Howard
Windsor Lodge
Count Osrnsxi
States General
Mr. Pitt
Downing-street
Pitt
Grattan
Invra
Bank of England
France
Europe
Fazi
Baron Montesquien
America
Monarchic Club in Paris Threatens Revolutionaries
A Paris monarchic club grows powerful with large membership and kingly symbols on admission tickets. Messages praise bread distribution to the poor while democrats fear mass violence if the hall is attacked. Poitiers reports aristocrats and religious houses resisting the Revolution. a royalist journal is burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poitiers
Aristocrates
Louis XVI
France Assembly Sets Decrees On Church Chair Prices
The National Assembly considered chair prices in churches and authorized Paris to audit chair hire costs and set compensation for lenders. It approved two decrees authorizing 100000 livres for Cherbourg port works and restructuring Marine Department offices while continuing ongoing projects. The minister must submit a general plan for marine offices, and jury matters saw additional articles enacted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Cherbourg
Marine Council
Intendant of the Marine
Paris letters discuss Count d Arrois and Buncombe fate
Sast letters from Paris say Count d Arrois arrived from Italy last Tuesday night and had two secret interviews with the Queen and one with his brother though the report is doubtful. Van der Noot plans to withdraw to escape the coming storm and La Fayette’s position remains equivocal. The piece argues genius requires culture and notes Bacon and Newton would be mere wise men if born among monkeys unless in civilized society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
d’Arrois
Italy
van der Noot
la Fayette
Lord Bacon
Sir Isaac Newton
America
Parisian Dresses with Beaver Hats and Fattin Attire
The article describes Paris fashion with high crowned Flemish hats adopted by Pelish and French ladies. It details two outfits: one with a white beaver hat blue spots a gold band a violet satin gown and orange ribbon accents. the second features a white fattin cloak trimmed in white fur a orange fattin crown cap white gauze veil a violet and marigold striped gown and marigold shoes.
Court Rules Against Concerted Act of Bankruptcy Verdict
In Guildhall London a Special Jury found the commission in a case over cotton sold by Cook and Kilner against bankrupts was invalid. The judge ruled the act a concerted bankruptcy with insufficient grounds, leading to a verdict for the defendant and dismissal of the plaintiffs’ claim.
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Exftixe
Allon
Cook
Kilner
Joseph Shepherd
Creather
Bearcroft
Lord Kenyon
William Hughes
Porter
Cook and
Nicolas Lane
Mary Clarke
Sussex
Nicholas Lane
Cook and Kilner
London
William Prier
Shepherd
Wiltshire
Mr. Cook
Cook’s
Cool’s
Ettic
Bearcrow
Crowther
Kilnér
Kilver
Fide
Beine
Highwaymen Detain John Maynard for Watch and Purse
Thursday afternoon at Putney Common, two mounted highwaymen with black masks robbed John Maynard of his purse containing eleven guineas and a half and two half-crown pieces after failing to seize his watch. A list of shipwrecks and maritime losses follows, including the Alert wreck near Hartland Point with all hands lost, and several vessels reported as overdue or wrecked near Jersey, Arnage Reef, Holyhead, and Dingle Bay.
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John Maynard
Bushy Park
Putney Common
John Golding
Heigham
Norwich
Botany Bay
Alert
Dean
Africa
King’s Road
Bristol
Chapel Rockets
Rudden Bay
Hartland Point
Concord
St. Croix
Quebec
Jersey
Elizabeth
W. Indies
N. Brunswick
Arnage Reef
Newport
Dunkirk
Lucy
Holyhead
Manzalman
Amsterdam
Mogadore
Barbary
Martha
Rouen
Cork
Ovens
Jolly Cooper
Milford
Limerick
Kinmare
Hannah
Morris
Dublin
Havre de Grace
Caen
Memel
Rachel
Leith
Sophia
London
Whitby
Lisbon
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Memsens
Borough of
Huntingdon
Henry Speed
John George Montague
Monmouth
Charles Bragge
Lincoln’s
Marquis of Worcester
Tavidock
Lord John Ruffely
Charles Wyndham
Midhursts
Joby Norris
Ben Bush
Furfier
Guildhall
Holship
Dattors Commons
Thomas Lyn
Clapham
Corn-Chandier
J. White
Gough
Quare
Fleet-street
William Horsfall
Coventry
Attornes
Bolton and Malroy
Basinghall-sreet
James Newman
Goswell-street
Corn-Chandler
Edwards
Castle-street
Holborn
Samuel Woodward
Pennington-street
Bennett
Bull Head Court
Newgate-street
Johnson West
Market-street
Westminster
Cooper
Attornies
Gregson and Burden
Copthallcourt
Thregmorten-street
Thomas Summerland
Deretend
Birmingham
Gualler
Fountain Tavern
Philip Baker
Tothill-street
James Wenham
Hastings
Francis Oxley
Rotherham
Yorkshire
the Angel
John Gregson
Rothwell
Northamptonshire
Raper
Market Harborough
Leicestershire
Thomas Baxter
White Lion
Edward de Santo
Leadenhall-street
William Williams
Fadler
Pelican Trin
John Sealy
Bolton Hudson
Monarchic Club
National Assembly
Lory Kingdn
Merz
Affaness of
Kriver
Apiainst Trasper
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