Debates and arrivals mark busy week at India House
A directors meeting at the India House adjourned to next Wednesday. Lord and Lady Dorchester with children arrived at Spithead in the Alligator frigate after a seven week voyage. News covers Post Office complaints, European affairs, and East India passenger lists as ships return from Madras and St Helena.
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India House
Lord
Dorchuster
Spithedon Quebec
Coffin
Lord Grance Lior
Wales
Bath
Brookes’s
Waitt's
Duke of Benworp
Pulteney
Prato
Sunbury
Hammersmith
Court of Common Pleas
King’s Bench
Feltham Common
Newgate
Court of Chancery
Emperor
Axroup Duxe- Francis
Prague
Britain
France
Spain
Germany
Italy
England
Montesquieu
Europe
Poland
Russia
Paussia
Highlands
Fishergate
Fitlergate
Warmgate
Warren Hastines
East Fitzwilliam
Madras
East India Houses
Bengal
St. Helena
Ise of Wight
Guildhall Court Debates on Coal Pay and Charity Aid
At Guildhall Court of Common Council the Lord Mayor and Aldermen heard petitions from Ladarin Coal Meters about small pay and a Minehead relief appeal that was generously granted with 100 lamed to charity. Debate on freedoms granted since 1781 to 1791 and election rules for the land meter post adjourned to next Court.
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Guildhall
Coal and Corn Committee
Minehead
Somerset
William Davis
Alderman Piexet
Dixon and
Maube
Watkin Lewis
Watkin
Court of Commo Council
Lewes
Newnham
Hammet
Watson
Merry
Dixon
Sims
Deputy Rich
Court of Common Council
Dissolution of the National Assembly in Paris
The National Constituent Assembly dissolves after Marget reads the procès verbal. Parliament ends amid applause as sections in Paris prepare for winter provisions. Clubs clash politically while pamphlets urge accountability. imagined royal letters stir harmony and caution against upheaval.
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Ae ‘Paris
National Assembly
Marget
Pregiment
Paris
Tea laden ships reach the Downs from China Channel
Reports state Botany Bay Neptune Scarborough Justinian and Lady Juliana arrived at the Channel on their voyage to the Downs with tea. Letters from Alia Cant note twelve Newfoundland ships safely reached there and will soon load fruit this year, earlier and more plentiful than last. A man named Hamilton in Glendore Ireland, aged around sixty, has buried eight wives and seeks marriage with a young lady of sixteen.
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Botany Bay
China
Neptune
Scarborough
Justinian
Lady Juliana
Downs
Alia
Cant
Newfoundland
Glendore
Ireland
Hamiltron
Paris Assembly eyes power amid royal threats and debts
October notes reveal tensions as the Kinc threatens to end the Assembly, the new body plans to verify powers Monday and convene with the King’s visit expected. Meanwhile C M d Orleans sells a gallery for 840000 livres amid creditor pressure. other estates to be sold. A protest to the late Assembly’s finances circulates, deputy signatories including former titleholders. Paris officials debate winter provisioning while a civic crown for Lafayette is deemed premature. News from St Andero reports a captain’s danger episode ends with sailors handed to the Inquisition after intrigue involving nonjuror priests.
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Kinc
Nual
C. M. d’Orleans
M. la Borde
Riney
Assemby
Paris
M. de la Fayette
St. Andero
Spain
Forsin
Nantes
Assembly Opens New Session With Oldest Deputy President
October Assembly opens with M. Casins as Speaker and two decrees on conduct. Deputies are read twice. the oldest, M. Pateau at 69, becomes President but confuses the President chair with a Secretary’s chair, needing correction to proceed.
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M. Cazus
M. Casins
M. Pateau
Irene
Assembly Debates on Powers and Club Decrees Whose Fate
The Assembly debates whether to define delegated powers and how to proceed. It approves a plan to form ten bureaus, faces procedural confusion, and schedules a nine o'clock meeting. A decree targets clubs and societies that act politically, punishing leaders with civic disqualification and fines.
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National Assembly
Ipswich Riot and Local Disasters Reported
A Fort house near Bristol is taken for a hotel. Mr SpeedsMan dies of apoplexy near Longeacre after crying for help. Ipswich town officers election ends in near riot with dragoons, serpents, an Ark and Dove effigy, injuries, and eventual order by midnight. A lime barge off Pitcher’s Wharf burns in rain. Waterman Benjamin Chenton killed aboard a Rothesby lighter by falling timber. he leaves a wife and two children.
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Ipswich
Pitcher’s Wharf
Deptford
Benjamin Chenton
Sun Pire
Rotheshire
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Wray
James Budworth
Miss Johnson
James Taylor
Sne
Ann Taylor
F. Kowles
Affleck
Jane Cairnes
James Campbell
Philip Mayne
Bofevicl
Meisters
Linfengen
Herricks, Baning
Eare Fitzwizliam Leff
Col
Sydenham
Phipps
Dawson
Crichton
Harrebow
Floyer
Charton and Davies
Durham
Swattow
Earl Cornwallis
Swantow
Seringapatam
Assembly
M. Déelplangve
Ee M. Delplanque
M. Delplanque
M. Dumolard
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