Protests of French royalists against decrees endangering monarchy
A lengthy protest signed by 290 National Assembly members urges allegiance to the king and monarchy. It condemns decrees that suspend royal authority, declares continued support for the king, and vows to abstain from deliberations not tied to defending the monarchy. Louis forms a formal denial of counterrevolutionary letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Assembly
Maury
House of Liords
M. Cazares
M. Creamont Toynerre
M. Faucauld
National Assembly debates on silver casks and public decrees
M Harmand de St Fleur urged movement of two casks of silver stopped at Forback and the assembly agreed. A decree cleared the colonial Assembly of St Domingo and M de Santo Domingo. Letters from Flemish garrison officers reported oath takers and suspensions. Vernier proposed harsh emigrant decrees, deferred. Electors of 1789 asked to send a deputation on July 14, and the Diet granted the request. The Royal Comtoss sentence was annulled, a move shocking many. Addresses from departments numbered in the thousands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Harmand de St. Fleur
St. Domingo
M. de Santo
M. Vernier
Federation
M. Chabroud
Regiment Royal Comtoss
Public finances and unrest in Paris and provinces
July 8 report notes 3,000,000 livres from the Bank extraordinary for public hospitals and 24,600,000 for defraying June deficits. It cites a Spanish ambassador remonstrance over plate seized at QuillBoef and orders commerce uninterrupted except war stores and bullion. Reports of unrest, arrests, and executions in Montpelier, Bélefie, and at the Château de la Provfucres amid royalist fears following the king's escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee of Finance
Portugal
Quilleboeuf
Paris
la Force
M. de Bouille
Montpelier
Bélefie
M. de la Provfucres
Poitou
Cf-Devant
Destruction of Louis XIV statue in Caen and royal symbols in Paris
Curiously violent actions surface in Caen and Paris as Louis XIV’s statue is toppled and beheaded on the Place Royal. Marble slabs with admiring inscriptions are pulverized, and a plan to send the powder to Parisians is mentioned. In Paris a Barnave portrait is displayed in a political club amid laurel and a cockade, while Barnave’s mother is honored at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caen
Normandy
Louis XIV
Place Royal
Canton
St. Robert
Barnave
N. B
Paris
PUBLIC OFFICE, BCW:STREET. Before Sir Sampson WricHtT
Bigamy case in which a man is accused after being seen to sign marriage registers with Miss Grenville and Miss Clark. Witnesses confirm two marriages at St Pancras Church and St Clement Danes. Prisoner claims prior wife alive, seeks bail denied. Committed for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BCW
Sir Sampson Wrichtt
Messis
Macmasmus
Strand
Miss Grenville
Rumors Abroad and Local Anecdotes from the City
Intelligence from Alsace reports rising Austrian troops on the Rhine as harvest prospects in France look poor. A polished Battille model for the Revolution Society arrives from Havre de Grace. Crown and Anchor renamed Anchor for a meeting due to objections. A Windsor vs Eton pony race covers three hours. winner Wiginton. Fatal accidents include a coachman’s death in Mile-End and a waggon driver crushed in Kingsland Road. A Guildhall proceeding dismisses a child-stealing case. a mad mother is freed. A mercury poisoning accident at Mawnby poisons ten, three dead, three likely to recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alsace
Rhine
France
Battille
Lord Stanhope
Revolution Society
Portsmouth
Havre de Grace
Siméin
Sanders
Windsor
Wiginton
Eton
Bath Road
Hyde Park Corner
John White
Isaac Winford
Mile-End
Whitechapel
Kingsland Road
Guildhall
Bedlam
Richard Sturpy
Mawnby
Northallerton
Cooper and Firkin
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Pants
Uly
Mirabeau
Pe Syerges
Des Crées
d’Artois
The
Montmedi
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