Wars in La Vendee and Rebel Leaders Update Caen
Paris dispatches detail La Vendee insurgency, Charette’s fate, and ongoing reprisals. Reports cite Louis XVIII chants in Caen, Marat and Carrier brigades forming in the South, and measures closing clubs while preparing a broad pacification campaign across Brittany and Normandy.
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Paris
Fea
Org
Charette
La‘Vendee
Normandy
Caen
Louis
Louis_ XVIII
Louver
Jesus
Sun
Marat
Carrier
Council of Five Hundred March 3 1 1793 Drouet request
Drouet on leave asks the council to consider allowing a child of age for requisition to stay home to cultivate land. Villars moves a resolution limiting rations from Germinal to military in service and citizens under law. Decreed.
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Guipillean
Hoche
la Vendee
Chavete
Drouet
Villars
Admiral Van Strawer Arrives to Open Scheldt and Repair Antwerp Port
Admiral Van Strawer and engineers arrive to open the Scheldt and cleanse Antwerp port, preparing quays and piles for use. They consult with Merchants to align plans, while the French Minister of Marine informs Brustl of progress and hope for soon success.
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van Strawer
Plice
Scheldt
Antwerp
Brustl
Directory
Netherlands
Sceptre and Crescent sail for Cape of Good Hope convoy
Portsea ships Sceptre of 64 guns and Crescent of 44 guns, with seven transports, set for the Cape of Good Hope under convoy. A second fleet to sail soon. Plymouth reports capture of Dutch warships in harbor and transfer of flag to British. Hind revenue cutter brings in Vigilante with smuggled spirits. Star encounters a French prize. fierce exchange leaves one dead, three wounded, and a badly damaged rig.
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Sceptre
Crescent
Cape of Good Hope
Hind Revenue
Bray
Polperro
ColvilLe
Berwick
Star
Entertainments and personal dire events stir late nights in Britain
The report mixed society gossip with sharp misfortunes. Plans of Mr Braپsnaw to wed a noble widow, Mrs Concannon hosting concerts, and late night fittings at Green Cloth unfold. Tragedy strikes a Sussex heir, a young man ends his life after a Covent Garden liaison, amid inquiries into a false character for a royal valet. A firing of public figures, a bankrupt sale, and fires devastate Little Redwitt Mills and a French Emigrant artillery storehouse near Calfirst Castle.
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Brapsnaw
Westtmeath
Concannon
Green Cloth
WatLack
Bure
Covent Garden
Graham King
Bow-street
Earl of Oxfom
St.Alban’s
St. Alban’s
House of Correction
Little Redwitt Mills
Wilts
Half Way
Southampton
Calfirst Castle
Richard Mason
Hawkshead
North Mimmms
Herts
Execution at Newgate for High Treason in Dublin
James Weldox a private in the 7th Dragoons was executed at Newgate for high treason. The hanging and subsequent decapitation were brutal remarks recorded as the crowd watched. The body was displayed for a time before being returned to the prison.
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James Weldox
7Th Dragoons
Newgate
Iho
Gloucester appoints John Wilton to common council
In Gloucester on Monday Mr. John Wilton apothecary and surgeon of Eastgate street was chosen as a member of the Common Council and appointed apothecary to the hospitals for the aged poor under the corporation's patronage.
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John Wilton
Eastgate-street
Grounded fall sheltering young corn aids winter relief
Newcastle on March 5 reports a recent fall of snow four feet deep that may shelter young corn and curb premature vegetation. Town families, troubled by life’s scarcity, have agreed to cap butter prices at 1s per pound to curb avarice. The measure reportedly curbs price gouging and aims to open supply channels for workers’ reward.
Weather and court highlights from Edinburgh and Glasgow notices
The wind shifts danger of Dutch fleet to northern waters, with possible Channel route. Frost eases land moisture aiding spring grain. Glasgow Justices of the Peace convict a distiller, fine six pounds, and seize bribe money for the infirmary. Additional fines for unlicensed retailing noted.
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Justices of the Peace
Glasgow
Royal College election and market prices across towns
Friday afternoon the Royal College of Physicians in London saw the election of a Botany professor at Oxford to fill Sibthorpe’s chair as Dr Williams was named fellow and Dr Powell was noted. In Salisbury Market wheat and barley fetched varying prices, while Devizes reported higher wheat values. A new 410 gun ship keel is to be laid at Chatham, and a Wimbledon robbery occurred near the gibbet of Abershaw. James Anderson, 114, itinerant tinker, died in Scotland. A respite in O’Meall’s case and Thomas Shuttleawood’s polygamy trial were noted. Four women claimed to be Shuttleawood’s wives.
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Royal College of Physicians
London
University of Oxford
John Sibthorpe
Williams
Christ Church College
Powell
Ville de Patis
Wimbledon Common
Marsn
Old Palace-yard
Abershaw
Scotland
James
Anderson
Thomas Shuttleawood
Newgate
Deachman
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