Petition and arrests stir Paris Convention debate.
Workmen in the encampment around Paris petitioned the Convention over reduced daily pay, arguing equality law. Debates ensued on arrests ordered by the Committee of Surveillance, with calls to stop the revolutionary excess and extend General Safety oversight to Sections and Paris Commons. Savoy sends thanks and asks for papers to aid organization.
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Paris
Afi
M. Lauggi
Committee of General Safety
Carrozge
Savoy
Language of Dumourier Declares France a Republic
General Dumourier’s October reply to the Brunswick declaration argues France has chosen a republic as the National Assembly abolished monarchy. He blames Royalists and AustrianPrussian powers, condemns Vienna’s intrigues, and defends the nation’s sovereignty against foreign interference and counterfeit alliances.
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Dumourier
Duke of Brunswick
National Assembly
Ites
Nationa Convention
France
Prussia
Louis XVI
Europe
Vienna
States General
Lewis XVI
Austria
Henry IV
A Nation's Fate and the Call for Honest Policy
A French sympathizer laments costly pride and the danger of war with Prussia, urging King Frederick William II to pursue humane realpolitik. He praises Prussia’s general as noble and warns against a vain honor that would ruin nations, while noting Dumourier and Brunswick correspondence and looming winter mobilization. A gale off Lowestoft yields the brig Hope ashore with damaged cargo and grateful townsfolk aided by residents.
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Prussia
Poussia
Vienna
Louis XVI
Duke of Brunswick
National Assembly
Dunnoughteer
Manstein
Chalons
Dumourier
Duke of
Verdun
Longwi
Luxembourg
Department of Landes
Bayonne
Lowestoffe
N.N. E
Hope
Thomas Hempton
Topham
Hambro
Barcelona
Hempson
London
King's Plate at New Market October Meeting 1792
Sporting Intelligence from New Market reports the King’s Plate for six-year-old horses with prices on Skylark and Lord Grostenor’s Skylark Six. Also listed are two-year-olds Scanderbees and Mercutio, and a note on Venus’s Quick beating Fox’s Mercutio.
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Athursday
Cat Radford
Lord Grostenor
B. H
Mr. Fox
Mr. Dawson
Higt Ayer
Fortune
P. of Wales
Saltram
Horse Racing Entries and Purses on Friday Card
Friday entries include seven riders in various ages with weights and prizes. Notable horses listed: Mr. Perven’s Alfred five years, Eager by Bedford’s Fidget, and multiple two mile races with bets and payouts. Foreseeable bets include six to four on Mother Bunch and a Derby line featuring Hotspur and Pudibras relations.
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B.C
Falkland
Dare Devis
Derby
Ch. c
Hotspur
Bridget
Grovenor
Bull
H. Fetherston
Gr. c
Mr. Bullock
Peace boosts customs revenue and thefts threaten dispatches
The week ending the sth of O&. 1792 shows a rise over 1791 with seventy eight thousand six hundred ten pounds in net revenue for the period. Over the last three weeks customs excise figures exceed nine hundred thousand pounds, while the permanent revenue increase for the year totals two hundred seven thousand two hundred twenty nine pounds. A rogue raid on a royal dispatch box at Windsor near Langley Broom accompanied by a post chaise theft underscores persistent crime, though paper fragments lie scattered on the Heath. In Cumberland Mr. Simpson reports a cow yielding four calves in eleven months as Scots manufactures show further progress.
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Daily Messenger
Secretary of State
Windsor
Langley Broom
Royal Union Bark, No. 2 Loxiar Street Announcement
Messrs SHERGOLD and Co. inform the public they continue business on their liberal plan and offer a saving of fifty per cent. Demonstrated clearly by reference to No 0 Lombard-street.
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Royal Union Bark
Loxiar, Street
Messrs. Shergold and Co
Lombard-street
Nobility and Gentry Informed of Division Bottling Offer
Residents are notified by Mr Sprisbury about a new bottled antidote offered at multiple London locations including Borough Southwark Wray’s, Royal Exchange, and Soho Square Dispensary. Patients seeking advice or admission should attend before one o clock on September 8, 1792, at Soho Square.
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London
Sprisbury
Meil. Clark
Southwark
Soho-Square
Proprietor Secures Patent for Violet Soap in London
Persevering ingenuity wins for the Parent Violet Soap inventor a fourteen year patent and exclusive London manufacture. The notice warns against faked variants sold by various shopkeepers, and directs buyers to the official office in Cornhill and to the Dublin outlet, claiming the soap relieves chapped hands, improves skin softness, and guards against sun damage.
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Althoug
London
Cornhill
Dublin
Great Britain
Arrivals and notices from October port records and society items
Ship news lists arrivals from Lisbon Archangel and other ports including the Rochdale Brenthall and Gobe. Births marriages and deaths noted with local social details. Prices, stock quotes, and lottery tickets rounded with brief market briefings.
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Dover
Rochdale
Lake
Lisbon
Liverpool
Brenthall
Wheatley
Hiram
Robt
Pallas
Ormond
Archangel
Helen
Fincher
Violet
Swinburn
Rachel
Welth
Petersburg
Genoa
Gobe
Mitchinson
Havre-de-Grace
Jeune Helvese
Demings
Stoodwell
Active
Hornby
Georgia
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Biron S
the Upper
Rhine
Sporting Intelligence
Discontina
Mary
Eudes Baine
Jamaica
Dean
Oober
Downs
Diligence East India
Drar
Francis and Mary
Howard
Dubl Fame
Kennedy
Diligence
India
Lora Bot
Grosvenor-street
Jens Wolff
Eig
Cavendish-square
Buckworth
Canterbury
Lincoln
Haman
Waterford
Anpia
Inhal
Halland
Flanders
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