Beachey Head Privateer Capture by British Vessel
Admiralty report dated May 30 records Lieut Compton’s capture of the French lugger privateer La Justine Adelaide near Beachy Head after convoy safety was established. The privateer carried two carriage guns two swivels a chest of small arms and twenty men. No further capture details are given beyond this action near the Downs.
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Admiralty Office
Compton
Beachey Head
St. Helen’s
Beachy Head
la Justine Adelaide
Fecamp
Peyton
Downs
Royal Family Dines at Carlton House as Tours and Health News Spread
May 30 London reports the royal party including the Dukes of York and Clarence and other royals dining at Carlton House before small health setbacks. Separately, news from Woolwich praises the Royal Regiment of Artillery for loyalty amid pay debates, while Plymouth seamen disrupt on shore and concern over consequences rises. Letters from Vienna and Paris discuss peace preliminaries and shifts in military postings, with unrest noted over compulsory oaths against royalty.
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Dukes of
York and
Clarence
Prince Ernest
Prince
Friends of Anarchy
Plymouth
Halifax
New York
Falmouth
Countess of Leicester
Depp
Vienna
Marquis Sucess
Maniel Zergy
Austria
Nurembergl
Rith Inft
Hache
Brussells
Clerry
Portsmouth
Hobse
Plymoute
Hamoaze
Dock
Bannisters
Il-Fame
Dismissal of Ministers debated in House of Lords
The Duke of Bedford in a televised motion urged an Address to the King for ministers' removal. He analyzed four years of war and governance, condemning ministerial mismanagement, financial strain, and Ireland policy, calling for a new system, retrenchment, and reform while warning of national peril and secessionist tensions.
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House OF Lords
Duke of Bedford
Prussia
Ofmutz
Bafle
Lord Malmesbury
Paris
Belgium
Ufé
Select Committee of Finance
Select Committee
Treasury
Lord Sydney
Ireland
Earl Fitzwilliam
Earl Camden
Admiralty
Iitéry
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