Commemoration Speech at Directorial Palace Address
The proceedings describe the Directorial Palace ceremony where artillery fire, music, and a grand address marked the fete. The Prefect extolled liberty and the Constitution, urging Republicans to resist royalism and internal strife while vowing vigilance against conspiracies and foreign threats. Applause followed the lengthy oration.
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Fe Corte Cave
Diberey
Republic
Europe
Jzalouty
Mazar
Friends of the Republic
Robesrierre
Bascett
Council of Elders Ends and Addresses Bourbon Estate Sale
In the thirteenth sitting the Council, on Dufaults motion, extended the suspension of sales of hospital and college estates. In the fourteenth it approved restoring the Duchess of Bourbon to full property enjoyment. In the fifteenth the Directory sent an Address of Reunion justifying the colony’s conduct against English claims, noting independence pressures and bread supply cuts. Ordered to be printed.
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Council OF Elders
Dufault
Duchess of Bourbon
Island of
Reunion
Isle de Bourbon
Sercey
Council of Five Hundred July 13 14 Proceedings
The July 13 14 sessions report petitions denouncing the Third as forgery and demand for restored Catholic worship. Merchants claim US conduct harms France. Duchess of Bourbon restoration approved. sale of white paper for affiguats authorized. Rambach attacks postal secrecy in emigrant priest cases.
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St. Menchould
Department
Lower Rhine
Nantes
United States
French Republic
America
Duchess of Bourbon
Gilbert Definolieres
Propoting the Tepediok MHe La and the French Liberty Debates
July sessions of a revolutionary council debate the banishment of priests and religious declarations. Bonaparte praised for breaking chains of La Fayette. The majority adopts Dudruel project on religious worship and priestly oaths with protests and nominal appeals. Milan and Venice report confusion, nobility plots, and political turmoil amid widespread Liberty talk.
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Jean de Brie
Baitile
Couchery
France
Maublanc
Buonaparte
la Fayette
Philippe Deluile
Paris
Febaumet
Dudrul
Zhibaudean
Royer-Colard
Pefforet
Zrowil’é
Thibaudeau
Dudruel
Venice Discusses Reform With Montenegrin, Dalmatian Emissaries
In Venice on June 25, two municipal deputies urged Dalmatia and Istria to join the metropolis under a new democratic government. A letter to Montenegro’s patriarch promoted democracy. Dalmatia’s deputies sought incorporation with Venice but returned without clear results amid ongoing violence. General Paraguey d Hilliers and Lailemant presented two French naval officers to organize the Venetian fleet, yet hopes for a union with Stria and Dalmatia wavered after d Hilfiers’s vague reply.
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Venice
Istria
Dalmatia
Republic of Venice
Montenegro
Paraguey d’Hilliers
Lailemant
Buonaparte
Stria
d’Hilfiers
Tree of Liberty planted by Partizans in Velletri
In Velletri on June 20 a democratic group formed a plan to plant the Tree of Liberty and illuminate opponents. The Governor learned of the conspiracy, overruled dissent, and watched as conspirators carried out the act. The tree was planted at night and found with seven heads displayed at dawn. An inscription warned against those who oppose liberty and equality.
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Boulay
Merlin
Audouin
Panvilliers
Milan
Budaparte
Cate
Montebello
Venice
Génoa
Duke of Medina
Trieste
Venice Tax hits nobles with heavy levies and church plate
On June 23 Venice reports the French have imposed large taxes across Venetian provinces. The Municipality of Venice levies an extraordinary tax on residents with rents over 100 ducats, while those holding 10,000 ducats are taxed at 4000 cucats.
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Venice
West Indies privateers dominate hostilities and ports
Privateers raid the North Island and prize enemy ships as four Spanish vessels are cut out near Monti Chrisi by the Ceres frigate. A Havannah proclamation bars neutral bottoms from England bound ships, hindering commerce. General Simcoe sails from Port-au-Prince with 3500 troops toward L’dreahaye, while Mirabelais and Grand Geave reportedly offer submission. Convoys protect American vessels. Captain Morcan commands 30 ships. The Pennsylvania funded Federal frigate is launched and readied. The homeward fleet of 150 sail muster at Port Antonia and head to Cape Nichola Mole to collect sailings for England.
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Monti Chrisi
Ceres
Havannah
England
Havakinah
Simcoe
Port-au-Prince
L’dreahaye
Mirabelais
Grand Geave
Gen. Warre
Morcan
Pennsylvania
Port Antonia
Cape Nichola Mole
Dollars in Transit Stop Case at Guildhall
In a Guildhall hearing before Lord Kenyon, the assignees of Staples and others contended that dollars Turner sent to satisfy a debt were misappropriated by Staples and bankrupts. The court held the dollars were not countermandable and distinguished from ordinary stoppage in transit, preserving the creditors’ rights to the funds. Verdiat argued for the plaintiffs.
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Guildhall
London
Lory Kenyon
Stapless
Bowles
Wdder
Staples
Thether Bankruprts
Turner
Pearyns
of Cornwally
Zaw
Lord Kenyon
Lord Harperer
Prefcct
Lord H
West Indiaman repels Danish privateer in Jamaica run
Extracts from a letter aboard His Majesty's Packet Westmoreland dated Kingston Jamaica June 1797 recount a morning encounter on May 18 with a Danish privateer armed with 18 guns and 150 men. After a two and a quarter hour duel the English ship disengaged, claiming no casualties and only one wounded carpenter, with 36 men aboard.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Mart
Lightning Strikes Wiltshire Oak and Kills Cow
During a late thunder storm a two foot diameter oak at Church Yatton Wilts was struck by lightning and shattered. A cow owned by Farmer Allwoop Babington Wilts was killed by the same storm. Police in Whitechapel arrested a man and woman on Charlotte Street Hoxton for coin offences. a quantity found awaits Mint solicitor examination.
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Church Yatton
Wilts
AlLwoop
Babington
Whitechapel
Charlotte Street
Hoxton
Blasphemous Libel Trial in London Bookseller Case
An indictment of a Holborn bookseller for publishing The Age of Restor by Thomas Paring ends with a guilty verdict. Lords Justice urge restraint, noting the shocking details should not be published and condemning dissemination of indecent doctrine. The trial features Garr ow and Bailey for the prosecution and Kyd and Mackintosh for the defense. Ir Fleming testifies that the book was in the shop on February 7.
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Lord Kenyon
King
V. Williams
Holborn
Thomas Paring
Lirfeine
Garrow
Bailey
Kyd
Mackintosh
Erskine
Fleming
Curer
Public Office Bow Street Rape Case and Counterfeit Coins
John Briant appeared before Sir William Addington charged with raping a young girl in St James's Park and was committed with bound over to prosecute. Joseph Harris, a Jew, charged on Deputy Solicitor for the Mint Powell’s oath with uttering three counterfeit shillings after exchanging a pottle of strawberries for a guinea. he was secured and committed.
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John Briant
St. James’s Park
Joseph Harris
Powell
Mint
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Esserp-ALs-Errenot Visits Paris Amid Electrical Demonstrations
Otoman Porte ambassador Esserp-ALs-Errenot toured Lisle and Paris noting a Library and Physical Hall visit. Professor Moxter staged electrical experiments revealing the ambassador’s surprise at a blaze of his name and static shocks. The event highlighted differing European beliefs about thunder and lightning.
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Esserp-Als-Errenot
Ottoman Porte
French Republic
Lisle
Paris
Moxter
Esstio
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Rambach
Cholet
Lamarque
Quatiemere
Coupé
Conti
West-Indies
Westmoreland
Public Office
Bow-Street
Sir William Addington
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