Death of His Serene Highness at Wimbledon and Navy Dispatches
Reports from London detail a royal dinner in progress at Wimbledon with members of the nobility and a newly formed supplementary cavalry. Admiralty advices recount Captain Stororn’s Phaeton capturing a French privateer and a Spanish brig, while the Prince of Wales visits Covent Garden and the Princess of Wales remains at Carlton House. News covers loan discussions, Spanish ships near Cadiz, and British naval promotions and deaths, including Captain Drew and Captain Puttine, with the Pillory sentence of William Strangeways for perjury in Manchester.
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London
H of
Lord Bripfort
Bath
Portsmouth
Cormand
Channel
Admiralty
Stor ¥Orn
Phaeton
Bret
Prince of Wates
Carleton-Hause
Critchill
Covent-Garden
Princess of Wales
Newbank
Earl St. Vincent
Cadiz
South America
Bourdeaux
Paris
Hardy
Great Britain
Brussels
Flushing
England
Prince William of Gloucester
Norfolk
Eastern Military Department
Dover Castle
Mid-West
Canterbury
Drew
Putrine
Cork
Hindostan
Kinesmiy
Puttine
Pugciné
Plymouth
William Strangeways
Haymarket
Manchester S
Brentford
French Invasion Fears Underscore Swiss Tensions
From Basle to Bern, reports describe French troops seizing Neufchatel and threatening the Swiss Cantons. Swiss forces mobilize 19,060 men and reinforce fortifications while authorities arrest local officials tied to the Bishop of Basle. A French advance prompts warnings and protests as Bern suppresses large levies and urges neutrality amid growing peril across the region.
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Cyr
Dufour
Munstherthal
Erguel
Renam
Neufchatel
Granwal
Canton of
Bern
Reiber
Buren
Aar
Byron
Aaberg
St. Jean
Thielle
Republic
Bienne
St. Gyr
M. de Wildermett
M. Breton
M. de Wildermetts
M. Heilman
Gudin
Upper Rhine
Roufeld
la Neuville
Nidau
Aarberg
Europe
Switzerland
Byrn
France
Address to Calais inhabitants on invasion dangers
The Commissary of the Executive Directory of Calais urges inhabitants to sever all contact with the country under attack to avoid provoking the government. Citizens should prove devotion and civism by cutting innocent correspondence to prevent suspicions and new terrors during invasion preparations. Joannie Martin, the attorney who defended Williams, publisher of Paine's Age of Reason, died suddenly. Gréce Mzatmaxer of Dundee was found guilty of sedition by Edinburgh’s High Court and sentenced to fourteen years’ transportation.
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Calais
Pius J
Joan’ Martin
Williams
Grerce Mzatmaxer
Dundee
High Court of Justiciary
Edinburgh
Voluntary Contributions for Public Support and Tax Plan
A public notice outlines a voluntary contribution scheme to raise up to 16 million for 1798 and loan repayment. It appeals to the rich, business leaders, and all social classes to contribute amounts tied to income, with estimates of 1 to 6 million from various groups. The piece argues the plan could shorten the tax act and calls on citizens to back government finances.
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Great Britain
Duke of Berrorp Questions Tax Criterion in House Debate
The Duke of Berrorp in the House of Peers questioned Taxes as a expenditure criterion deeming them worst for judging a man’s outlay. He suggested that nearly all taxes are voluntary beyond housing costs, noting even rent debates within the house. His candor astonished the assembly as he argued expenditure hinges on voluntary payments.
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Berrorp
House of Peers
Theatre at Covent Garden Acknowledges Royal Attendance
The Covent Garden theatre was visited by His Majesties and the five Princesses last night. The audience, fashionable and numerous, welcomed the new Comedy of Seckets which has improved through recent amendments and now enjoys high public favor.
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Covent-Garden
A Rant Against French Revolution Era Rights
A scathing anti revolutionary poem condemns republicanism and the French war, praising English Loyalists while promising violence. It cites massacres at Lyons Nantes Paris and La Vendée with lurid detail and calls for fury against opponents of the crown.
Debates on taxation and a scoundrel marriage scandal
The Duke of Bevrorp pressed Lord Grer yrLe on why the tax rises stop at high earners and why larger fortunes pay less. A Lady of Quality escaped debt via a marriage to a comb knight, who grabbed her debts and fled. Mr Fensings was robbed by two men near Stratford to Ilford as he walked the road.
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Bevrorp
Lord GreryrLe
Fensings
Stratford
Ilford
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