Lord Chancellor backs second reading for divorce bill
In parliament the Lord Chancellor explained doubts about the bill’s evidence but concluded it should proceed to a second reading, with the divorce to be a vincule Matrimonsi. Lord Grenville and others debated timing, while Hastings's trial loomed with a potential long debate on May 16. Committees were postponed, and Cornwallis’s commission faced further delay as ministers weighed India dispatch timing.
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Country
Cecil
Hastings
Lord Grenville
Marquis Lanfiloune
Marquis Lansdown
Earl Fitzensilliam
Expiring Laws and Pilchard Fisheries Debates in Commons
The House of Commons debated the Expiring Laws Bill and the Keci admeasurement bill, both read a second time and committed to a Committee of the Whole. The Bill for the Relief of Captured Vessels was also committed. The Pilchard Fisheries Report favored a bounty increase on pilchards. Dundas postponed the India Budget to Tuesday fortnight. Sir G Elliot discussed the petition from the General Assembly.
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Keci
Pilchard Fisheries
Itouse
Selec
Royal levee and gaiety amid war talk in May London
Yesterday at St James's the King held a levee from 1 to 2 pm receiving prominent figures including Pirr archbishop of Canterbury Duke of Sieops Marquis of Stanforn Earl Campen and Lord Grenville. Later the Rugrat Family attended a Concert of Ancient Music in Tottenham Street as a morale note amid dispatches and deliberations on West Indies slavery and martial affairs.
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St. James’s
Pirr
Cantersury
Duke of
Sieps
Marquis of
Stanforn
Earl Campen
Viscount Sydney
Lord Gren Ville
Sir George Yonge
Queen’s House
Rugrat
Tottenham Street
Earl of Glencarrn
Duke of Buccleugh
Earl of
Carpican
Marquis of Salisbury
Pearson
Lascelles
Birch
Petrie
Rowtey
Navy
Barrington
Prince le Norickx
Germany
Duke de Villeauver
Duke de Prience
Dourie
de Lexiter
M., Brrrets
M. Fircerz
London
Barnet
Westminster
Brentford
de Bri
Wis
Princess de
Aix la Chapelle
Versailles
Regiment of Flanders
Russia
Louis XVI
Cowpert
Maryborough
Ireland
Bunbury
Lafayette disbands Grenadiers after royalist defiance in Paris
In Paris on May 1 the Marquis de la Fayette, with his aide and 3000 National Guards, shut down the Grenadiers of the Cretoire who refused orders. The event, met with murmurs, leaves Lafayette facing threats from bandits and incendiaries. The king was informed, the military pledged to uphold law, while workers demand higher wages as Duke Wirtemburg debates indemnity and losses from Assembly decrees.
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Marquis de la Fayette
National Guards
Grenadiers
M. de la Fayette
Duke of Wirtemburg
Paris
Civil War in the Comtat Venaissin Engulfs Avignon
Reports from the Comtat at Venas sin and Avignon describe a brutal civil conflict. Avignon Catholics win a skirmish, reinforcements arrive for the other side, Carpentras gates are bricked and flooded as sluices are broken, villages burned, and the region plunges into savage warfare driven by fanaticism and philosophism.
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Comtat
Viaisin
Avignon
Carpentras
Smugglers Seize Toll Rights and National Guards Intervene
In a provincial episode dated the 28th, smugglers drove off the Revenue Collectors at Barriere de la VitteTts and installed themselves as toll collectors for personal gain. The National Guards later seized fourteen of these self appointed collectors. The piece notes M du Bois de Crance’s algebraic challenge to M de la Fayette’s reappointment as Commandant of the National Guards, remarking the post was sought by the algebraist.
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Barriere de la VitteTts
National Guards
M. du Bois de Crance
M.de la Fayette
National Assembly Debates About Spanish Frontier Troops
In long debates the National Assembly discussed the Organization of the National Guards. M. d Anire reported a letter from Count Fernand Nisres, Spanish minister, stating the King of Spain ordered a cordon of troops to seal Catalonia and Aragon frontiers to prevent French entry. The Madrid court says the move is not hostile and not aimed at interrupting Franco Spanish commerce.
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M. d’Anire
Fernand Nisres
M. de Afontmorin
Spain
France
Lme
Catalonia
Arragon
Madrid
Debates Over Soldiers Attending Political Clubs
On April 29 the Assembly debated whether soldiers may attend the Friends of the Constitution clubs. Major figures warned approval would ruin army discipline, yet it was decided soldiers may attend political clubs at will. Small assignats again discussed with proposals for formal values opposed for now.
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Friends of the Constitution
Civil War Fears Rise After French Revolutionals
Letters from France speak of a fragile constitutional outcome and possible civil war as the Marquis de la Fayette resigns amid turmoil. Reports note the arrival of M Pryrouse, the French circumnavigator, at Botany Bay and the recovery of the captain's body from a Swedish ship wreck off Margate with valuables secured at Birchington.
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Marquis de la Fayette
Cuarlrs
Louis Taz Xvith
France
Cacutostro
M. Pe Pryrouse
Botany Bay
Margate
Birchington
Masonic Anniversary With Prince of Wales Grand Master Use
A planned installation of the Prince of Wales as Grand Master faced ticket limits and a £10 admission, with only 420 seats offered and quickly filled. A sudden illness prevented the ceremony, Dr Warren deeming it dangerous. well wishes were offered for better health to the Grand Master in a traditional three times three toast.
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Prince of Wales
Warren
Double Skull Child Exhibited in Calcutta Curiosity
Anatomical curiosities described as Evernard Holst presents the double skull of a child born in Calcutta in May 1713 to Joan Hunter. The head attached atop the normal body showed no pulsation in temples, imperfect ears, and a movable jaw with no teeth. The child died after street exhibition and a cobra bite. Skull now in museum of Joan Hunter.
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Evernard Holst
Esq
F.R.S
Joan Hunter
Calcutta
East India Company
Tumloch
Burke and Fox clash over British Constitution and reforms
The English Democrates are defeated as Burke defends constitutional integrity against French revolutionary ideas. Fox, though capable, is criticized for constitutional misgivings, while Fox supporters warn against measures that would threaten the long flourishing British system.
Abstract of Precedents Committee Proceedings and Dysart Marriage
The record says the Public will find the information aligns with the law and that the numbers are seven seven stolen against impeachment. It notes Lord Dysart married last week to Miss Lewis, formerly a widower, his first wife sister to the Duchess of Gloucester, with no children. His presumptive heir is Mr Tollemache, son of Lady Bridget Tollemache, who married the lord’s brother, Col Tollemache, killed in the last war in America.
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Committee of Precedents
Dysart
Taf Week
Lewis
the Duchess of Gloucester
Mr. Tollemache
Bridget Tollemache
Col. Tollemache
America
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