Privateers and prize captures reported by Captain Stopford
The Phaeton and Unité captured the French privateer of 116 guns and the Egmont, a West Indiaman, this morning. The letter from Captain Stopford details the seizure and names the vessels involved. Also listed are average sugar prices and a long run of bankruptcy notices, dividends, and certificates with various names and dates.
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Royal Gedree
Stopford
Lam
Briproar
Phaeton
Roche Bonches
Egmont
Unité
Storrovd
Dutch Republic in turmoil over oath and reforms
Private correspondence reports protests in Holland as citizens debate an oath against Stadtholde rate and aristocracy. French commissioners push for a new constitution while guilds resist, with Cologne and Coblenz authorities resisting revolutionary acts and magistrates delaying installation amid protests by burghers.
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Baum
Holland
Fan der Fagt
Spain
Dengar
Valtenaar
Teave
North
Bourmonvelle
Utrecht
Cologne faces drift toward democratization across Rhine region
Report from Serv on September 21 notes the Banner Senate of Cologne and other guilds protest innovations and republicanization as Cologne Juliers Aix la Chapelle and other places move toward Rhenanization. The threat of a peace treaty looms as democratization could spread through Germany. French officials swear in Cologne’s new municipality promising loyalty to the French Republic and to carry out its orders, not hindering liberty principles.
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Cis-Rhenane Republic
Senate
Bonn
Juliers
Aix-la-Chapelle
German Empire
France
Germany
Cologne
New Magistracy Installed at Cologne Amid Occupation
On September 16 French General Jacobé Trigny and Commissioner Rhethel oversaw oaths for Cologne’s new magistracy. Convents may be suppressed. Ftienne displaced the Aix-la-Chapelle Senate, citing session duration, while many in Coblentz backed the old order as revolutionaries, aided by empire agents, faced opposition.
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Cis-Rhenane Republic
Colzne
Facobé Trigny
Rhethel
Ftienne
Senate
Aix-la-Chapelle
Chamber of the Empire
Wezlar At-Coblentz
Order of Things
In Coblenz German Debate on Constitutional Change
Report from Coblenz and Bonn shows most residents favor the old constitution while revolution supporters gain aid from the French. The Intermediary Commission at Bonn cites French intent to make the Rhine a boundary and urges popular consent with French backing. Local authorities protest to the Treves Commissary. responses praise liberty and enlightenment, with deputies recalled to avoid arrest. The Rheinbach magistrate opposing the Tree of Liberty is in custody.
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Intemediry Commission
Coblentz
Justice of the Peace
Rheinbach
Tree of Liberty
Bonn
Cologne
Friends of Revolution
Rhine
Treves
Friends of Freedom
Revolution News Sparks Cabinet Feisation In Paris
Vienna reports a new Revolution in Paris causes a fierce stir in the cabinet. General Meerfeldt leaves for Paris with dispatches claiming Parisian peace negotiations, while Austrian forces in Italy press forward. Officials have not confirmed a Paris peace. Negotiations hinge on Meerfeldt's return and the Austrian response.
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Paris
Adina
Méerfeld
Italy
Meerfeldt
Baden
Baron Zhugut
France Aims to Repel Austria from England
The report notes 5000 National Guard to be stationed in Friuli by order of Buckaperte and records Austrian advances. It cites Major General Ruckavina's entry into Castel Nuova and Cattaro with popular reception, while warning of renewed, rigorous war efforts and heightened preparations.
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France
Austria
England
Buckaperte
Friuli
Venica
Arbe
Cherfo
Lufingrande
Olero
Dalmatia
Ruckavina
Castel Nuova
Cattaro
P.S
Buonaparte
Meerfeldt
Austrian French Plenipotentiaries Conference Ends
Adina reports the sixteenth conference between Austrian and French plenipotentiaries with France ordering sick, women, and baggage moved toward Ferrara. The army must be ready to march by the 23rd. Palma fortress esplanade will be gunned tomorrow as neighboring areas supply workmen and transport. A fields hospital is to be established.
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Adina
Ferrara
Palma
Buonaparte Receives Reinforcements Amid Italian War News
Milan report notes 43 nobles arrested between the 5th and 7th, while Bonaparte’s proclamations to the grand army and Kellerman’s division, totaling 30,000 troops from the south, bolster war reports. Sardinian forces mobilize as talk persists of sending 10,000 to join Bonaparte. Bonaparte’s envoy in Rome presented to the pope with Tolentino treaty ratified.
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Milan
Genoa
Buonaparte
Kellerman
Jance
Sardinia
Rome
Tolentino
France
Exiled Deputies Reach Switzerland and Ex-Director Arrives
Reported arrivals include ex-deputies condemned to transportation at Freyburg and Ex-Director Carrot in Thun with funds. He plans to leave Bern territory for Gefau. Rumors about Bern and Basle cantons petitioning for Barthelemy are unfounded.
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Pichegru
Switzerland
Freyburg
Thun
Berns
Gerfau
Bern
Basle
Barthelemy
Curious wagers and sensational trials near Windsor
A weight contest near Camberwell ends with a man outweighing horse and chair by one pound fourteen. At Covent Garden Theatre a duel of wits features a Smelling battle. Quarter Sessions at Windsor acquit Mrs H and her daughter of murder after two days. A Lincolnshire case sees Fane Porter jailed six months for milking another’s cows. Bath bailiff Wilmot dies after a distress raid gone wrong. Isaacs in custody. A Breadalbane Fencibles man is punished for firing on Leith. Two Greenwich-ward robbers strip two gentlemen in a pott chaise near Peckham Gap. Norwich brothers Harwood die within hours of each other as earth collapses on a grave.
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Covent Garden Theatre
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Windsor
Ansel
House of Correction
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Bath
John Laacs
Walcot
Payne
Traacs
Wilmot
Breadalbane Fencibles
Edinburgh
Leith
Greenwich
Pottchaife
Peckham-gap
Chaife
Attornees
Norwich
Harwood
London Markets Report Mixed Movements Across Staples
The market shows firmer prices for barbadots and Madeira wine with imports to the Continent, especially Holland, strong. Coffee remains heavily traded, with casks sold at Garraway's for home use. sugar, tea, and hides fluctuate. Tobacco prices ease marginally in some regions while Virginias and Carolina varieties rise by about a halfpenny per pound. East India goods steady to higher. rice and spices show mixed shifts as overall demand stays robust.
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Woolf
Holland
Garraway’s
Geneva
Maryland
Gercral
York
James Rivers
Virginia
Georgia
Rappahanock
Carolina
East
India
Jamaica
Prices fall at Shrewsbury Fair as butter cheese and stock soften
At the Shrewsbury fair on Monday a record amount of butter and cheese appeared, driving prices down. Salt butter dropped from 9s to 7s 6d per gallon, new cheese from 40s to 60s per cwt, old cheese from 5s to 58s per cwt, and pigs, cattle, sheep, and horses all sold cheaper, with pigs about 20 percent lower than the previous fair.
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Shrewsbury
Hops Prices Slump As Market Quiet In Canterbury
Canterbury market note reports yesterday’s hops trading at 7 for 86s per cwt and 4s. 4d to 6s. per cwt, but activity was light as planters refused to meet the declining prices.
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Canterbury
Bristol Fair At Gloucester Brings Fewer Attendees
The Bristol Gloucester fair held Thursday and Friday last drew fewer visitors due to bright harvest weather and prior cheese fairs. Cheese prices slipped. best make from 54s to 56s, two meal 46s to 48s. A Birmingham Fair incident saw a floor collapse at Spicealtring public house. no serious injuries reported. Coroner Joyner opened an inquest into a drowning found at Sea Mill Dock Westbury upon Trim, describing a man around 30 with brown coat and blue silk bound pockets, likely drowned two to three weeks ago.
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Bristol
Barton
Gloucester
Birmingham
Spicealtréer
Joyner
Sea-Mill Dock
Westbury
Trim
Brighton Woman Drowns in Ocean After Attempted Walk
A Brighton resident set out at about eleven in ordinary clothing and a cloak to walk into the sea. She was seized by a cramp before reaching knee depth and died before aid could arrive. A second witness saw the event. the report notes a rise in local madness sentiment.
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Brighton
Misdemeanor indictments and fair prices at Surrey sessions
At the Quarter Sessions in Kingston two bills of indictment against Rawkiniog and In gram for obstructing the Royal Princess of Waves procession and assaulting attendants were found and traversed to next Sessions. Butter and Cheese Fair prices at Bury, Woodstock, Ledbury: prime Butter 44s 46s per firkin, Halves 23s 24s, Two meal Cheese 51 5s per cwt, Whey 5s, Flet Cheese 60s 645. Woodstock new Cheese 48s 56s, Two-Meal 36s 46s. Ledbury best Making 53s 6s, Two-Meal 45s 48s per cwt.
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Surry
Kingston
Rawkiniog
Woodstock- Fair
Ledbury Fair
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