Fading French War Debates and Commission Actions
The Convention debates a general report on the War of La Vendee. A Saumur Representative promises documents, while Tours petitions lead to a decree creating a commission to judge Generals Reuin and Rofignol. A five article decree on weights and measures is passed. Poilter reports civic feasts replacing religious ones and a bishop’s cross is shown. The public notes revolutionary demands for funds. Two golden crosses and 46 marks of silver are placed on the desk as commissioners take their seats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flo
Committee On Public Safety
la Vendee
Saumur
Republican Society of Tours
Reuin
Rofignol
Popular Society of Fours
la Peasce
Fodrere
Committee of Public Instruction
Poilter
Paris Convention Amid Turmoil and New School Decrees
Reports describe the National Domains administrator’s inability to transmit emigrant effects and vigilance committee documents while Paris agitates. Delegations demand measures, a jury for monopolists is proposed, and municipal League escorts push reforms. A decree orders primary schools across the Republic, teaching republican values and rights to children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pars
Committee of Vigilance Act
Popular Society of
la Tour du Pin
Loulon
Paris
Tov
Bourdeaux
Lozere
Aveyron
Rhodes
la Vendee
Committee of Public Instruction
Prize of Ten Guineas for Essay on 1688 Revolution
Middlesex and London sittings before Lord Kenyon. Cambridge prize awarded to James Plumptre of Clare Hall for best essay on the Revolution of 1688. Jamaican mail reports hail stones, privateer actions, and a Barbados privateer capture. News from Grenada and Genoa notes, with war updates and ship movements.
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Lennox
Cambridge
James Plumptre
Clare Hall
Oxford
Hurdis
Magdalen College
Kett
Trinity
His Majesty
13Th Regiment of Foot
Fragmented Trial Transcript From The Temple Concergerie Proceedings
A courtroom scene details the Accused presenting a packet opened by officers, containing hair samples of her children and husband and cypher marked papers. She explains names and roles of several women and a physician tied to her children. Mandates of arrest are discussed and the trial continuation promised due to length.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salen
Demoiselle Vion
le Bernier
Britain Leads With Mercy And Might In War Anew
The article lauds Britain as a virtuous, compassionate power in the ongoing conflict. It praises the Duke of York’s reconquest of Flemish territories amid French incursions and commends ministers for public declarations of just and humane aims. It casts Britain as supreme among nations, wielding vengeance against regicides while offering forgiveness to the repentant, and cites classical obligations to govern peoples with justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of York
Flanders
Europe
France
Great Britain
Heaven
Earth
Parcere Subjects
Debellare
Duke of York wins complete victory over the French
Postscript reports a messenger arriving at the Secretary of State with news that the Duke of York secured a decisive victory near Marchiennes on the 30th, claiming 409 French killed and 1700 prisoners taken along with multiple wagons and twelve cannon. Also noted: Miss Greson of Hampstead died. her will gifts are bizarrely impractical, including severe conditions on a coachman for transporting her remains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wwe
Secretary of State
Duke of York
Marchiénnes
Hampstead
Greson
Sutton
Essex
Miss Gibson
Ad free the house of a Mc Thompin in Seec Meath
Fragmentary OCR notes place a house in Seec Meath within County Meath bound by a church figure. The text mentions a bishop of Nehiseetn and a possible land or property context with ecclesiastical authority.
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Kingston
Barbadoes
Spelli
Dominica
Grenada
Mir. Proustgot
Grenadines
Thompin
Ehompiony
County Meath
Nehiseetn
Alfred and Hebe Return After Severe Gale in English Fleet
Plymouth reports the Alfred of 74 guns and the Hebe of 36 guns returning from Earl Howe's fleet after a fierce gale. Both ships suffered mast damage but are fit to sail soon. Lord Howe's fleet is back at Torbay with several vessels damaged slightly. Orders direct the 58th Regiment to embark under Lieut. Clements to join forces under Sir Charles Grex in Catwater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Earl Howe
Alfred
Bazerr
Hebe
W. S. Ws
Edystone
Lord Howe
Torbay
War- Office
George Lenox
58Th Regiment
Col
Stuart
Troports
Catwater
Lieut. Clements
Sig Charles Grex
K.B
Jamaica to Falmouth packets arrive after long voyage
Westmoreland packet reached Falmouth on the 28th from Jamaica after 49 days at sea, followed by the Boyd from Havana after 51 days. Putrid fever on board forced Havana voyage to call in. the captain and 12 crew died. Hanover and Prince William Henry packets, sailing the 28th, returned yesterday due to contrary winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falmouth
Westmoreland
Boyd
Jamaica
Havannah
Hanover
Prince William Henry
Spilsbury's Antiscorbutic Drops Sold in London Shops
Fresh supplies of Spilsbury's Antiscorbutic Drops weekly arrive from Mrs Spilsbury at Solio-square London. Bottles priced 2s 6d and 2s each are sold by E Newbery at St Paul’s Church Yard corner. A new edition of Spilzburg’s Treatise on the Scurry Diet and Remedy is available, with 100 cases neatly printed in octavo at 6d50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spilsbury
Theatrical Register HaYmarket and Local Notices
The column lists theatre offerings for Haymarket Covent Garden and nearby venues with shows like The Mountaineers The Phize The Revenge and Love in a Village plus Hamlet. Births marriages and notices follow including a birth to the Lady of R H Boddam Cross Enfield and a marriage in Oxford. The page also mixes stock market quotes and financial notes with dealer terms and lottery ticket mentions.
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Middlesex
London
Lloyd Lord Kenyon
Savannah-la-Mar
Africa
Barricoa
Cuba
Hyzna
Montego Bay
Cape Frangois
Markham-hall
St. Mary’s
New York
Queen Charlotte
Fargie
Geroa
Duke of Tuscany
Joserx Doria
Genoa
Fioresto
Corsica
Lord Heon
Paozi
Gravina
Tia
Postscript
Bank
Contos
India
Theatrical Register
Haymarket
Phize
Covent-Garden
Démot
Kathlane
Harlequin
R. H. Boddam
Cross, Enfield
Richard Hartley
Mary Daniel
Prish
Drayston
Berks
Gillingham
William Hulmg
Tonken
Tives
Samgvel
Ifeagu
Seber
John Fenwick
Admiral Macbridey
Dublin
Sons
Ull’s
The
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