Duchess of York to Attend Drawing Room at St James's Palace
The London Gazette notes a drawing room for Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York in the Queen's apartments at St James's palace on Tuesday June 5 at two o'clock. It also records a Stockholm tribunal sentence for Ankarström who shot the late King of Sweden. The punishment calls for amputation, beheading, quartering, and public whipping in three districts before execution. Brussels dispatch reports General Sztaray’s attempted attack near Florence, with Austrian and French losses given. Other notices list surrender dates for merchants and attorneys, and dividends for Birmingham and Titchfield trades. A certificate for John Humphreys, a Gloucestershire money scrivener, is to be granted by June 19.
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Pitt
Robert Smits
Hertfordshire
Secretary of State
Whitehall
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The
Hague
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Lisbon
Howe
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Falmouth
Peter Barret
Sucripan
France
M.de Cuauvetin
M. de Talleyrand
Brissot and Co
Paris
Prand
Jacobin Club
Ji Dumowetez
Count D’estaine
London
Levee at St James and Paris unrest dominate Wednesday
On Wednesday morning a Levee is planned at St James's at one o'clock and no Drawing room tomorrow. Reports from Lord Auckland and the Hague discuss Lord Borringpow's arrival. French affairs show riots and Jacobin influence, with threats of martial action if mobs form.
Stockholm News Quiet as Public Debt Grows
STOCKHOLM MAY 4 The capital enjoys utmost tranquility as Government notes rise daily The subscription of one fifth in Billets a Etat to the Bank of discount filled in half an hour Criminals defended themselves yesterday Count Horn ill Royal Secretary Joan D Eng du lstrom and Norper condemned to bread and water four days lose their offices first to be degraded from Nobility Secretary Hacorn to be freed
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Count Horn
Joan D'Engelstrom
Norper
Hacorn
Poland Celebrates Constitution Anniversary at Warsaw
Warsaw on May 4 reports a grand anniversary celebration of the new Constitution. The King, with the Primate, attended a church service and a high throne sermon followed by Ze Deum. A stone-laying near Ajadow for a Providence church, free public spectacles, and a National Theatre performance honored Casimir the Great. News notes Vienna and Berlin support Poland’s independence and free government, with official notifications awaited.
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St. Cross
Ajadow
Guespe
Casimir the Great
Vienna
Berlin
Poland
Europe
Proclamations, Liberty, and a Morning Coach Mystery
A London audience hears calls to curb sedition amid circulars urging legality and unity. A Portman Street disturbance at four reveals a mysterious private coach capture. Innovation notes a Vienna inventor’s voice-imitation machine and a steam engine circular motion advance. A Somerset coach accident claims Mr Nosworthy.
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Netherlands
Tam
Paradise
Maza
Portman-street
Portman Square
Oxford Street
M. Kemerten
Vienna
Nosworthy
French Princes Seek Coalition Amid Emigrant Strife
The French princes again push a two-party coalition among emigrants, offering to send back M. de Cahgne to England if Bretewil adherents join. Police arrest several Frenchmen in Brussels area, with papers seized and suspects confined. Diplomatic shift widens, with several envoys resigning or moved and a Congress possible as circulars urge unity behind the Hungarian king and a loan proposal awaits peace.
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M. Dé Cahzne
England
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de Bretewil
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War Office
M le Large
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Ruel
Brussels
House of Austria
Ransonnet
Liege
Mons
d’Aremberg
Count de la Amarck
Constituent Assembly of
France
Mirabeau
Orleans
Low Countries
Prince de Rohan
Hungary
Baron Aavesterke
Paris
Count de Thiennes
Flanders
Diest
M. de Gortz
M. Blumenport
Attack on La Fayette detachment near Florenne fails
General Count de Sztarray planned an assault near Charleroy with 25 infantry companies and four light horse squadrons. The enemy was driven from their camp to Philippeville, losing three cannons and a carriage. fort Philippeville blocked further progress, while Sztarray regrouped and withdrew after collecting wounded and trophies.
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Mons
la Fayette
M. de Gonwin
Meuse
Florenne
Count de Sztarray
Charleroy
Philippeville
Sztarray
Casualty figures from a preliminary dispatch
Preliminary dispatches report approximately 7 or 8 Allied deaths and about 20 wounded for our side, versus about 200 enemy killed and around 20 wounded. Notable targets include Colonel Maubourg and a Knight of St Louis, name unrecorded. More details awaited from General Sztarray via Major Count de Kollonitz.
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Col. Maubourg
St. Louis
Sztarray
Count de Kollonitz
Cream of Violets Soap Promoted for Ladies Use
An advertisement extols Cream of Violets as a refined soap for women, claiming a soothing cleansing effect and fair complexion. It notes exclusive manufacturing rights for fourteen years, warns against counterfeit outlets, and directs orders to the Bank Buildings in Cornhill with Hatzi and Co. branding.
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Cornhill
Hatzi and Co
London
Meff. Dyde
Bailey
Promissory Note Suit Involving Miss Hoxley And Chaworth
In an action before Lord Leyven poroucHchaft Term Miss Hoxley the vidore of a Promissory Note from the late Mr Caaworgh of Nottinghamshire sues after the note was described as pretium pudoris The opposing counsel claimed a prior amifie sudoris An eminent attorney of standing absconded over forgery charges A Madeira ship George Gregorio is near Long Island A Louise Antoinette Uraine Merville from France to Africa is distressed in Martinique A Barine ship laden with agar from Bengal arrives under many colours
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Gregorio
Madeira
New York
Long Island
Louise Antoinette Uraine
Merville
Tates
France
Africa
West Indies
Martinique
Barine
Bengal
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