Anniversary of King William the Third's Birthday Observed
London reports note yesterday's events in honor of King William the Third. Bedford Tower flag, castle procession with nobility, bonfires and illuminations mark the anniversary. a salute and rattling volleys from guard regiments conclude the day in park and castle. Nearby, Potemkin’s death reported. bankruptcy notices list numerous surrender dates at Guildhall with various trades and addresses.
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William the Third
Bedford Tower
Rénand
William
His Majesty’s Park
College-green
Royal Family Schedule and India Famine News
Monday morning notices list the royal week at St James's with visits to Windsor Lodge and Buckingham House and a drawing room on Thursday. A divine service at St George's Chapel is noted, while the Prince of Wales stays at Kempshot. Harsh India news reports Lord Cornwallis’s death and Bengal famine. five Royal Academy associates named: Prafkam, Laurente, Marchante, Smirk, Stothard.
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St. James’s
Eane
Windsor Lodge
Buckingham House
St George’s Chapel
Windsord
Prince of Wales
Kempshot
Hampshire
Alley Croaxpas
India
Lord Cornwallis
Bengal
Epward Wixtes
Rawat’ Foro
Royal Academy
Prafkam
Laurente
Marchante
Smirk
Stothard
Mystery of the Cato Ship Loss Returns to Light
Reports to the Admiralty reveal new circumstantial details about the fate of His Majesty’s ship Cato under Admiral Sir Hyde Parker in the East Indies during the last war. Captain Burn of Arcot’s Nasas warns of Malay massacre reports after finding the Cato’s main sail and British cordage aboard a Malay vessel, with the ship later drifting away.
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Board of Admiralty
Cato
Hypé Parker
East Indies
Burn
Nasas
Arcot
Mecca
Caro
Malabar
York-house apartments described and theatre notices
Describes ground floor rooms at York-house with a military styled breakfast parlour and a dining room sited toward the park. Mentions unfinished rooms on higher floors and servants’ quarters. Includes theatre gossip on Incledon, Mrs Billington, and Haymarket entertainment, plus a long shipping-and-royal news digest ending with Potemkin's death in Russia.
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York-house
Coldstream Regiment
Jackdon
Macheath
Haymarket
Drury Lane
Leeward Ilands
Kempt Thorne
Falmouth
Barbadoes
St. Vincent’s
Yth
Dominica
Antigua
Montferrat
Nevis
St. Christopher’s
Tortola
England
Potemkin
Russia
Prince Potemkin
Paris Dispatches Spark Religious War Rumors in Assembly
Reports from the Departments of Maine and Loire describe a rekindled religious war amid Paris crowds. Deputies insult starving priests while Abbe Fauchet balks at their survival. Soldiers mutiny, martial law spreads, and Basily takes up Paris administration amid a hostile, Jacobin-led call for a new mayor.
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Maing
ndiLoire
National Assembly
M. Luard
Mizard
Fauchet
The
Oratoire
Regiment of Dauphine
Ir Corps
Court of Justice
M. Basily
Paris
M. Bailey
Algne
M. Bailly
France
National Assembly Debates on French Guards Petition and Decree
A lengthy session of the National Assembly examined petitions from late French Guards demanding incorporation with regular troops led by Bailly. Debates touched on petitions rights, ministerial conduct, and robust measures, including a decree to declare armed assemblies beyond frontiers as conspiracies and impose severe penalties and sequestration of princes' revenues.
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M. Bailly
M. du Bois
Dubay
Interior
Calvados
Gaen
Fauchet
Hotel Des Invalides
Marseillés
Ernest
M. Osvir
Interior Department
Thuy
Metz
Strasbourg
Lisle
Revolution Echoes in Paris as Old Order Wavers
The piece declares a Paris revolution undermining the crown and aristocracy, fearing a chain reaction that strains church and state in France and Britain. It notes England’s liberties and the sudden collapse of a noble lineage after Thomas Bathurst’s sudden death at Lydney Park, Chepstow.
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Joan Butt
Knave
Ngland
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London Gazette
Sun Castle, Nev
Wansaw
Westerday
M. de Bulgakow
Yaffy
Samuel Wheble
Alre-street
Goodman's Fields
Guildhall
Joleon Greaves
Royal Exchange
London
Atrornies
Messrs
Crow
Old Jewry
Mark Gregory
Thomas Gregory
King’s Armsyard
Attornes
Smith
King’s Arms-yard
William Rowson
Martin’s-lane
Cannon-street
Richard Jackson
St. Martin’s-lane
Botton
Fofkett
Redcross-street
Cripilérate
Thomas Redshaw
Newcastle
Lyme
Staffordshire
Crown Inn
Newcastie
Attornies
Barber and Browne
Fetter-lanew
Nicholas Gorky
Milé-end
Atten
Bower
Clifford’s-inn
David Taylor
Thavies-inn
Willett and Annesley
Little Fridaystreet
Cheapside
James Meredith
Landbadarnvynich
Radnorthire
Drovers
Dee
Teny
Guildhilly
Mr. Tourle
Bart Jet
Holborn
Sea
Philip “Morgan
Symond’s Inn
William Adkins
Joseph Adkins
West Bromwich
Bull’s Head
Walsall
John ‘Athley
Wednesbury
John Knaresborough Simpson
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Joseph Atrde
St. Clement Danes
Joseph Claridge
Oxford-street
Michael, Harris
Potter’s-fields
Southwark
Cortfactor
Fidde Helmken
Sarah Brickless
East Smithfield
John Richardson
Sylvester Hill
the Strand
John Snell
Great St .Helen's
John Whitheld
Deptford
Thomas Scollick
City-road
Charles Wakeman
Bristol
Bush Tavern
Henry Wheatley
North Row
St. George
Hanover-square
Thomas Row
Wner J
Thomas Eastoff
Wet Belfound
Deasbury Crawley
Piccadilly
Brookesper
Groy
Thomas Lyon
Clapham
Surrey
War ‘Office
HIS Majesty's
Imade
M. de Montmorin
Granit
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