London Stock Prices and Paris News Warnings
London stocks close with modest gains as Paris journals report ongoing Chouan activity in Brittany and French army delays. Dispatches note potential French actions through Swiss cantons into Alsace and Franche Comte, while domestic concerns highlight clerical expulsions, Jacobin unrest, and pressures on press freedom amid the Republic’s shifting policies.
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France
Republic
Switzerland
Prince of Conde
Alsace
Franche-Comte
The Pictures and Manuscripts Reach Paris from Italy
Reports from Milan and Vienna describe a shipment of art and manuscripts, including a Virgil manuscript once owned by Petrarch, en route to Paris. May letters note a loan plan in Turin and rising French defense concerns as 25,000 men mobilize to guard Porentru.
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Armiy
Italy
Paris
Petrarch
Vieunna
House of
Canton
Porentrui
Con .d’ Drignano
Turin
Milan
Smyrna
Council of Five Hundred
Drouet
Babens
St. Menehould
Whcse
Drowet
France
Jacobih
Republic
Besancon
Streights
Calais
Joseph le Box
Mehec
Poultier
Chenier
Spain
Prussia
Sweden
Denmark
Sardinia
French Republic
Hamburg
Purr
Melis
Doerner
Luxembourg
The Chouans Attack at Musillac In June Journal Report
Rouen dated June 4 reports the Chouans numbering about 3000 clashing with 500 Republicans near Musillac. The Republicans retreated, pursued for three leagues, then renewed combat. After several repulses the Chouans steadied a bayonet assault and won a flight, the Republicans chasing for three quarters of a league with roughly forty dead or wounded.
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Rouen
Musillac
Butra
Campaign movements shift in Cologne area report
A dispatch from Cologne notes Gen Grenier’s Widdig camp has been raised and marching toward Anderzach. It adds that Commander in Chief Jeerdan left yesterday and has been followed by Gen Eraquf and the officers of the army of the Sambre and Meuse. Headquarters are to move to Munster Maynfeld on the Moselle side.
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Widdig
Grenier
Anderzach
Chigf
Jeerdan
Eraquf
Erat
the Sambre
the Meuse
Munster-Maynfeld
Moselle
Venice Order Targets French Emigrants in Olive Branch Tone
The document limits enforcement to émigrés tied to Louis XVIII while others stay untroubled. Naval affairs outline a 24 ship line squadron for summer, possible command by Howe or Baiprort, plus militia tents on Barham Downs and a Brighton encampment.
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Republic
Penson
Louis XVIII
Earl Howe
Lord Baiprort
Cornwall
Monmouth
Brecon
West Middlesex
Barham Downs
West Essex
Brighton
Baltic
Yarmouth Roads
Edgar Man
Chatham
M*doucall
Syonex Smita
Diamond
Channel
T. L. M.gossetin
Duke of Nortoummberland
Mr. Fox
Fa&t
Morne
Zooke 3
Searthy
Copenhagen-house
Alderman Anner
Lechmere
Tierney
Yarmouth
Greex
British naval movements and ship statuses reported at Plymouth
Sailed westward aboard the 53 gun brig Fortune under Capt Woothinegs and the Spider cutter of 12 guns commanded by Lieut. SEARLES. The 120 gun Le Commerce from Marseilles may be rotten beyond repair. ore of the Majesty’s brig Oreies and the East India ship Princess Charlotte prepare to sail with Admiral Conroy’s squadron pending wind. General Sir William Pitt arrives and irons are embarked for Cape of Good Hope. Various ships remain in the Downs or sail under convoy toward Newfoundland, West Indies, and Africa with sloop patrols and wind shifts noted.
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Woothinegs
Spider
Searles
le Commerce
Marseilles
Miajesty
Oreies
Parken
Mercury
Byrne
Newfoundland
Selliea
Bill
Conroys
Srrisuary's Ariscorsatic Drops Promoted By Dispensary
An old epigram extols the Dispensary as the happiest institution and hails Srrisuary's Ariscorsatic Drops for relief from goat pain scurvy rheumatism and nervous debility. It claims many cures since year 3773 and notes bottles priced per bottle at one dollar.
Birth Notice From New Cavendish Street
Birth record reports the arrival of a son at the house on New Cavendish Street on Wednesday. The notice references noble titles and names in a brief doorway listing typical in old newspapers.
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Histhouse
New Cavendist-street
Peter-Douglasy
Marriages Notice from St Andrews Holborn and Bloomsbury
Yesterday at St Andrew's Holborn the Rev Getree Bellafis of Queen's College Oxford and Basildon Berks wed Miss Leah Cooper Viall of Kendal. Also yesterday John Henderson of the Adelphi Terrace wed Miss Keate of Charlotte Street Bloomsbury.
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St. Andrew’s
Holborn
Died at Capel Street Dublin Sackville Gardiner
The notice records the death of Sackville Gardiner Esq uncle to the Right Hon Lord Viscount Mountjoy at his lodgings Capel Street Dublin. It mentions a Countess of Sussex in Knightsbridge and other scattered details from the period.
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Capel-street
Dublin
Sackville Gardiner
Viscount Mountjoy
Benes
Sloane
Knightsbridge
Countess of Sussex
Square
Capt
Bengal
Park- Street
Grosvenore Price
Jote-Marine Payminster
Navak -East-India Company
Price and Stock Listings From A Historical Ledger
A fragmentary stock and bond snippet shows bank stock values and percentages per cent, imperial and colonial denominations, and references to government securities and lotteries. It reads like a midcentury financial table with varied abbreviations and unit markers.
Surgeon and Midwife Offers Aid to Concealed Pregnancy
An 18th century notice advertises temporary retirement facilities for pregnant women. Mr Watson, surgeon and man midwife, provides airy lodgings and lie-in apartments near Charlotte Street, with discreet, confidential service. Also promotes Pitre Benzpieta remedy for obstructions and irregularities and postnatal medicine.
Scurvy and Toothcare Claim At Foreign Proprietor
An advertisement touts a universal dental cure that rapidly destroys scurvy cleanses gums whitens teeth and grants sweet breath. Billed as from a foreign kingdom the remedy promises safety for infants, guarantees relief from toothache and decay when used as directed and claims a London supply via Fenrum's Music Warehouse at 78 Strand price two shillings per ounce with directions.
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Billiter Lane
Fenrum
Strand
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