Disputed Libel Case and Public notes from Essex
A London section reports on parliamentary privilege and a suspected libel case. Essex residents file a plea in Exchequer to dismiss a heavy fine, citing legal protections. Also listed are incidents of bridge tolls, a noble's Continental trip, a theater theft, a Newgate rumor, and a Swedish fire extinguishing formula trial in Prottingholm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Falmouth
Chesterfield
R. L. Jones
Carteret
Leeward Islands
House of Cérmons
Blackfriars Bridge
Larles
Fias
Essex
LoucHsoxouen
Henry the Vilith
Joseph Mill
Pelfryman
John Wells
Joseph Kingsland
Andrew Knox
Randall
Mill
Newgate
Wells
Lord Loucuscrous
King’s Theatre
Jaymearket
Lewisham Road
Blackheath
M. Acken
Prottingholm
Ode to Beauty and Virtue in Albion's Love
Fragmentary lines extol a duchess and Albion in romantic imagery. Poetic praise links beauty, virtue, and love with references to Troy, Helen, and noble ideals. The piece laments and venerates the beloved, urging pure devotion and the triumph of virtue over vice.
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Troy
Paris
Helen
Wetcome
Albrow
Public dispute over Mrs Jordan at Haymarket show
A Haymarket audience blamed Mrs Jordan for a Saturday incident linked to a cast change. The crowd preferred Richard Cour de Liard to High Life Below Stairs and mocked the manager’s handling. Accusations of improper conduct and dressing room miscommunications follow as the public contemplates withdrawing support from the stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haymarket
Busine
Richard
Cour.de Liai
Clarence
Jordan
Bath Cotillion Ball Reflects Growing Town Fashion
The Bath Cotillion Ball drew a large crowd amid ongoing efforts to admit a company into the Ball-Rooms. Attendees wore purple and blue striped silk gowns to flatter complexions and hide dirt as Bath’s building boom continues. Mr Pullenty advanced funds at interest as a temporary loan to builders, tied to potential borrowing.
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Bath
Pullenty
Mrs Reynoups Leads Bax Monde Season Debut
November 27 report notes Mrs Reynoups taking the Bax Monde role for the season with stewards of a hundred at her commentaries. Mrs Macartney, though aged, remains alive to mirth and folly as her rout two days earlier drew many polite circle regulars. The Catch Club meets Friday at the White Bear to appoint a manager in place of Mr Woxpéwoarta and set their campaign regulations. Once recruits are mustered and subscriptions secured, they will adjourn to the Town Hall to lead the season.
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Woxpéwoarta
Jacobin and Protestant Plan to Disarm Opponents in France
Paris reports reveal a conspiracy by Jacobins and Southern Protestant factions to disarm towns unfriendly to them. Executed in Nimes with many shot, Montpellier slated next. Deressart likely to head Foreign Department, Garnier to head Internal. Breton freed after royal guard incident, though likely not released. Alarm over Princes’ army invasion persists.
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Paris
Nunes
Montpelier
M. Deressart
Foreign Department
M. Garnier
Kine
Breton
National Assembly Nov 21 1793 deliberations
The National Assembly reviews deficit funding via Admiralty dues, discusses convening electors to fill priest removals, verifies Corsican deputies’ powers, and notes 19.9 million livres received in the first fortnight. It reports assassinations of constitutional priests and sentinels, actions on pensions for Acadians and Canadians in France, and measures to pay arrears.
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Manink Muvester
M. Ducessart
Department of ‘l’Aifre
National Court of
Orleans
Sieur Varner
Sieurs Tardif
Notrot
M. Gexfoméd
la Pendre
M. la Croix
Chalions
Pries Ferbaux
My Deessnet
France
Debated Article on Non-Juring Priests Sparks Print Orders
Historic proceedings recount long debate over measures against non-juring priests in the kingdom. Articles authorize parish lists, enforcement of oaths, and prosecutions. clerical and secular leaders face duties, denouncements, and potential penalties under August 1791 laws. The bishop’s rhetoric and speeches were ordered printed.
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M.ne Neuressareat
Lysus
Procureurs-General-Syndics Thal
Oo Arti
National Assembly
Bread for Toulon Shipwrights Sparks Municipal Support
A letter from the Muatne Minister reports shipwrights at Toulon, aided by the municipality, applying for daily bread rations modeled on Brest and Rochfort. distribution at the last ports to be halted to place workers on an even footing. Also notes 6,000,000 assignats to be burned, bringing total to 336,000,000. Emigration rises as disturbances in the North and Pas de Calais are linked to corn circulation. The King is urged to press the German Diet for treaty execution. New-Brislac Governacy and emissaries discussed with General Lackner. War Minister to report.
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Muatne
Toulon
Brest
Rochfort
Interizarion
M. de Morvean
M. Neirot
Dijon
North
Pas de Calais
M. Xood
Worms
Cabientz
Ettenheim
France
Germany
Aud
Tmpffen
Lackner
WiMerbeke
Upper Rhine
Public office case of gelding theft in Moorfields
Public charge before a magistrate details John Mott testifying that Sampson Waraun alias Bean borrowed a black gelding with bridle and saddle from Mr. Dale’s stables in Chilwell Street Moorfields to ride to Low Layton promising repayment that evening. Thomas Humphreys, a horse dealer, confirmed Bean offered the gelding for eight guineas and lent five guineas. The gelding was a property of Mr. Thomas Dale, livery stable keeper, and Bean was committed for trial.
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Sampson Waraun
Edward Beas’ Vial
Thomas Dale
Chilwell Street
Moorfields
John Mott
Dale
Bean
Chilwell-street
Richardson
Layton
Thomas Humphreys
Red Lion Yard
Holborn
Léw Layton
Noted English Early Modern Scandals and Colonial Notes
A fragmented article recounts Sir Robert Walpole’s expulsion from Parliament and Tower imprisonment over forage contracts in Queen Anne’s era, then sketches early Caribbean colonization with Spain, sugar, and slave labor. It also notes Morrocan-Spanish truce interruptions, a fatal accident in St Ives, and a Chefs Hunt burglary with a mistaken alarm rider.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Robert'Walpole
House of Commons
Scotland
Queen Anne
San Domingo
Mexico
Peru
West Indies
Jamaigay
Martinico
Barbadoes
Marry Atty
Morocco
Spain
Mequinez
James Osvorne
St. Ives
Huntingdonshire
John Marriot
Miss Stowe
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Duchess OF York
Raether
Bowers
Dodti
Elysa’s
Albion
Mrs. Jordan
National, Assembly
Boiw Street
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