Postal warning on cutting notes to thwart loss of drafts
A 1792 General Post Office notice outlines a counterfeit tactic to split bearer notes or drafts in half and send portions separately. It stresses delivering valuables to clerks, handling payments through London offices, and marking each half with date and year to preserve the full specification of the note.
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General Post Office
London
Anthony Todd
John Doe
Thomas Styles
Paris intelligence reports shifting alliances and French push
From Paris Gazettes intelligence notes French efforts to restore the old footing amid Prussian anger at émigrés. Reports claim two failed Marchiennes attacks praised by a general, Lille garrison under M. Duhoux, Austrians losing eight hundred, and French 20,000 men marching to frontiers. Strassburg letters mention Treves invasion and famine in Luxembourg with Austrian troops planning interior retreat.
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Paris
Bar le Due
Prussia
Moreton
Veraciennes
Corps of National Guards
Mudais
Marchiennnes
Contiché
Maulde
Strasbourgpeak
Principality of
Treves
Spire
Munhein
Miaettricht
Luxembourg
Germany
National Convention debates treason and Prussian envoy offers
The National Convention hears cries of treachery from the Committee of Surveillance while petitions reveal alleged piratical transfers of pensions and funds. A Prussian envoy seeks truce terms. Dumourier’s troops exchange prisoners but King Frederick William’s interests clash with revolutionary aims. The assembly orders a 24 member extraordinary commission to seize implicated papers and uncover conspirators.
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Committee of Surveillance of the Commons of
Paris
Republic
M. Ja Porte
M. “Saprexés
National Assembly
M. Kersaint
Committee of Surveillance
Committee of “ General Safety of the Convention
Fee of
Committee of Pensions of the Legislative Assembly
Seventen
Bovillé
Psidto Mid
Aarar
Louis
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Duke of Brunswick declares demand to free French royal family
A translated 1792 declaration by Charles Frederick Duke of Brunswick outlines the Allied monarchs aim to restore Louis XVI and Royal dignity in France. It condemns revolutionary violence, warns of consequences, and urges immediate liberation of the French royal family and reestablishment of royal authority, framing a path to peace or deeper war.
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Duke of Bourswick
Avas
Biffort
Prussia
France
Murmers
Mourier
Paris
National Assembly
Ashimesta
Chofer
Emperox
Louis XVI
Burns
Leugéter
Europe
Charles Frederic Duke OF
Brunswick
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Richard Roe
National Convention
M. Amelet
M. Ligueville
Montmedi
Duke of Brunswick
M. Canus
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Dadoux
Ta Porte
General Dumovurter
DuMourier
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Duke of Bausewick
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Committee of General Safety
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