Firglamation by Don Antonio Ricaldos Commander in Chief
A translated circular from Antonio Ricaldos announces rewards for foreign volunteers joining the Spanish army at Figuetes near Barcelona. It promises fifty livres and rations for those who desert opposing factions, with admissions into foreign or Swiss regiments and the Walloon Guards for non French natives. See headquarters at Trullas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Antonio Ricaldos
Cmvilep
Aarwyy. Ca
Barcelona
Frérigh Corps
Frances
Walloon Guards
Trullas
Antonio Ricarros
Families flee Franche-Comté after religious coercion
Soleure reports Swiss refuge for 69 fugitive people including two priests from Franche-Comté, driven to exile to escape forced religious ceremonies. Fourteen Befargon department members executed for opposing the Convention, while others seek passports to Swabia and Bavaria to pursue work away from tyranny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franche-Comté
Ify
Befargon
Switzerland
Swabia
Bavaria
Royal Drawing Room and Court Appointments Report
Friday morning reports state Maystiz8 Painces Aucustus and Anotruus with three elder Paincasses attended a Drawing-room at St James's for Her Majesty. Notables included Bishop of St Da hrn's, Sir Cartes Brackstone, and Duchess of DeVonstree. Audience allocations followed, with ministers and nobility seen at various sessions, plus notes on naval promotions and stock donations.
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Painces Aucustus
Anotruus
Paincasses
Buck Ingham House
St. James's
St. Dahrn’s
Cartes Brackstone
Duchess of
National Convention Parody of Radical Madness and Mayhem
A frenetic mock convention scene depicts Moderé elected president, demands for 500 ships and mass executions, Béte Sauvage denounced, Geneva-esque tribunals, and a cascade of dramatic decrees as radical reform nears. The satire escalates with references to Egalité, Windsor, and a Civic Feast amid chaos.
Libel case in King’s Bench over Dublin sheriff
In Dublin King’s Bench court the Duke of Leinster prosecutes Joan Girrard Esq a Dublin city High Sheriff for a libel. The court allowed the cause shown and set aside the conditional Rule. Reports say transports carrying flank companies and guards regiment may have had embarkation countermanded at Cove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King’s Bench
Duke of
Increpon
Goth
Fragmented Nineteenth Century Letter on Gifts and Forgery
A letter laments Lord Loxspatre’s gifts to fund army needs and questions the war effort’s progress. It notes women writers of the era and erwähnes a late Lyon’s filter forgery case, referencing Mrs. Rudd in a brief, critical aside.
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Baxuam
Morninex
India House
James Hay
Lord Macartney
Apam Drump
Eliot
Fowsxes Lurrrean
Tax Office
Board of Customs
Hoo? Jr
House of Mons
Port
Tréa
Col
Fox
Lavaton
Harton
Castle Rd
County of
Yorkshire
Lyon the Stock Thief Captured in Deal
A drunken man at the New Inn in Deal, later identified as James Lyon, attempted to disguise himself with a wig and planned to flee on an outward bound vessel. He carried loaded pistols, foie powder, and ball, and was seized after a reward notice sparked recognition by Bow Street officials. He awaits magistrates’ warrant in Deal before transport to London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Kent
James Lyonm
Bow-street
Carpmeal
Fore
Lyon
Royal Exchange
Vast Guest List At Bath Arrival And Dartmoor Riot
At Bath a long procession of titled individuals and families from Madin, Carlisle, Salisbury, and other seats of society arrived for a visit. Meanwhile on Dartmoor a miners’ disturbance grew after four comrades were involved in a window-breaking incident at a public house, leading to a failed prison breakout and the leading rioters being taken to Dartmouth aboard a press-gang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl
Madin
Fullerton
Kendall
Eawl of
Carlisle
Mys
Svisbury
Butinquet
Claverton
Provin
Caroline Hume
Hawtrey
Gibons
Campbell
Villers
Pelthall
Davidson
Cole
Mes. Spiers
H. Goodrick
Miss Eyre
Thomas Rivers
Miss Purvly Major
Bayard
Daubery
Major Gall
Mills Doughis
Cockburn
Mite Molineaux
Willock
Mira Wood
Douglas
Gundry
Dartmoor
Dartmouth
Transports for West Indies ordered to sail for France
An express from Government orders all transports with troops bound for the West Indies to prepare to sail for the coast of France. Admiral Gardner's armament targets the late next month with 800 marines recruited for this fleet. A Rose frigate and others arrived at Cowes Road with a convoy from the Downs. Whitehaven reports the wreck of the sloop Alexander near Meaghold’s Head, Ile of Mann, with all aboard perishing.
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Portsmouth
West Indies
France
Ostend
Gardner
Eonardo Paxensam Jg
East Indies
Cowes Road
Rose
Riov
Santa Margarita
Harvey
Fury
Sortizron
Echo
Hon. Kett
Downs
Whitehaven
Kov
Alexander
William
Matter
Harrington
Corna Harbour
Meaghold’s Head
Ile of Mann
Kirk Maughold
Thomas Howard
Ramszy
Unusual Mild Weather Boosts Wildlife and Crops
The mild spell brings rooks nesting at Trickett’s Thorness Isle of Wight and a gooseberry tree bearing fruit at Devizes. In Perthshire Delvin a field potato weighed five pounds with many over four pounds.
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Trickett
Thorness
Ile of Wight
Jordan
Devizes
Delvin
Perthshire
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Mont Blanc
Frimaire
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Boohal
Highgate
Newmarket
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Ancy
Britain
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Joshua
Margaret Nicholson
Bedlam
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St. Giles’s
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Paré
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