Reopening Controversy and Military Appointments Report
Fragmented report recalls theatre reopenings and audience opposition, with the Exchange open only for quota payers. Robespierre ally Lindet denounces Durand Mailla appoints Abbé head of a committee. Duke Tr was received with applause. police reprimand for a discreet violation. Executive Directory tightens control of smiths and arsenals. price list issued for grains. December conference near St. Epres between Republican generals and insurgent leaders discusses outcomes.
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St. Epres
Carville
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Zaarat
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Charette
Executive Directory vows eternal hatred to Royalty
The document proclaims the Republic will uphold republican spirits and denounce Royalty. Public functionaries will meet January end in cantons to declare allegiance to the Republic, with verbal processes recorded and measures urged to honor the festival without excessive cost. Royalist plots are condemned as dangerous and aimed at a French revolution retry.
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L’ami Des Loix
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Peing
Paris Flour Supply Scandal Involving Deputies Arrested
A Paris newspaper reports deputies Lacoste Garnier and Sabouadier have been arrested for failing to supply 7% sacks of flour daily to the government and for not accounting amounts received. It cites blame on Fambon St Andre and notes ex-constituent Dapainier arrived with General Rochambeau and Safberri’s return to Paris amid political maneuvering.
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Lacoste
Garnier
Sabouadieré
Paris
Fambon St. André
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Council of Five Hundred Meeting on January 3
The session focused on narratives of Canys and Drouet, released deputies, but the reports were deemed uninteresting as they detail arrests by Pameurier. It was decreed that Meraxt, a deputy, may not sit in the Council until general peace, per the 36th Brumaire act.
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Drouet
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Meraxt
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Ipersons
Commune borrows for grain purchase in Maieduel session
The council of elders from Sef Teng met on January 14 and announced that the Commune of Maieduel borrowed 699000 livres for grain purchases. The sitting was described as uninteresting and routine.
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Sef Teng
Maieduel
OLD BAILEY INDICTMENTS FOR LARCENY AND THEFT
The Old Bailey session reports multiple theft cases including William Hockham indicted for stealing wearing apparel from Thomas Hoare with related pawn evidence. George Partaculer found guilty of larceny from a grocer’s shop. James Hopwood convicted of stealing a carpet. Jobe Hughes guilty of private theft. and other cases of powder, timepieces, and miscellaneous goods with varying verdicts and witness testimonies.
County magistrates adopt Wheat price relief resolutions
In Northampton a session chaired by E. Dickins, Esq. considered parliamentary resolutions for reducing wheat consumption during high prices. The magistrates engaged to adopt the resolutions within their families and urged strict observance by all persons in the county.
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Northampton
Eday
E. Dickins
Alfo
Forestalling Markets Prosecutions Initiated in Gloucester
At the January Quarter Sessions in Gloucester the grand jury found bills against 22 individuals for forestalling markets harming local inhabitants. Authorities promise strict future oversight to safeguard market fairness.
Sudden Thunderstorm Tops Newcastle Coast Observation
NEWCASTLE reports a shocking storm on Tuesday evening with vivid lightning and thunder, followed by a violent hail shower lasting about half an hour. A strong southwest wind blew that night and into the next day, raising fears of coast damage though no harm was yet confirmed.
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Robbery near Gravesend as two-footpads assault carpenter
On the evening of the 7th, Mr Joan Pink, a Gravesend carpenter, was attacked near Northfleet by two footpads, then overpowered by two more. They beat him, dragged him from his horse, and robbed his watch, neckerchief, pocket-book with bank notes, and about 190 in cash. He reached home five hours later, visibly shocked, the recent wedding notice adding scandalous context. At the Norfolk Sessions a man was committed for renting a seditious hand bill to a large crowd and sentenced to one year in prison.
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Joan Pink
Carpenter
Gravesend
Northfleet
Pink
Norfolk
Ian
Ayttham
Regiments Embarked at Cork in Expedition Under Wavre and Wilmot
Regiments sailing from Cork under Major General Wavre and Admiral Cynitian include brigades of dismounted light dragoons and infantry. Cavalry strength is 100, infantry 5,680 rank and file, with parts of the 26th Dragoons aboard for the West Indies reserve. Transports anchored in Cork Cove awaiting orders on the tenth.
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Dragoons
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Indies
Smithfield Market Reform and Bread Policy Proposal
Discussion on altering the Smithfield marker to ease cattle timing, suggest replacing it with multiple London markets to reduce nuisances. Advocates mixed bread for the poor and cites price benefits. notes gypsy burglaries around Running Horse and a fatal Bath coach accident. Mentions Dispensary in Scho Square and Burt’s Anti scorbutic Drops with patient relief claims.
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James Moreland
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Mary Graves
James Hopwood
Robert Cheapohafe
Jobe Hughes
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