Princesses Visit Windsor and French Politics Reflected
Royal visit plans to Windsor are noted as the Duke of Clarence lies indisposed. Arrivals include Grattan from Dublin, with prices for tea and commodities in China. Amid political commentary, French elections for Paris unfold with complex majorities, while Spain tightens controls on foreigners and public scandals ensue in London with hangings and trials.
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Atany
Sopasa
Ametra
Winstor
Kar
Countess of
Harcourt
Nunéham
Suesday
Buke
Clarance
Grattan
England
Divlin
China
Royal Tour Delays Highlight Royal Carriages Trouble
The royal party traveling by carriage to Weymouth faced repeated delays from overheating axles near Salisbury and Blandford. A mechanic assisted at both stops as attendants swapped cars, while the King praised Colonel Wyse for his Taunton Court Martial report. Authorities ordered similar axle-tree boxes to those used in mail coaches to prevent future incidents.
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Salisbury
Wyse
Taunton
Blandford
Mixed 19th Century Naval News and Clerical Ceremonies
Reports detail the safe arrival of the Purser’s slip from China to the Ise of Wight, arrivals from Pelew Islands aboard the Earl of Thurlow, a Sutherland family annuity, Bishop Auckland’s park use for health and amusement, and parishioner tributes. Also covered are the Bishop of Salisbury’s public entry, Parisian civic shifts, a Durham visit, Durham Cathedral promotions, dockyard restrictions, and Taunton mutiny court martial outcomes with pardons and punishments.
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Henry Dunpas
China
Ise of Wight
Earl of Thurlow
Mr. Sutherland
Durham
Auckland
Barrington
England
John Lord
Sarum
Slade
Evans
Heathcote
Salisbury
Paris
Cuanenrror
Houghton-le- Spring
Tauros
Sharp
Durham Cathedral
Dickens
Taunton
Paris selects Billecoq as Secretary to Electoral Assembly
Paris reports M Billecoq chosen secretary to the Electoral Assembly despite Jacobins opposition. The text notes likely election of M de Cepede to Paris Deputies and mentions M d Ordeans as Jacobins secretary. It adds a fatal quarrel among National Guards at Toulx with deaths including a Navy Captain Beaucaire, conveyed by an extraordinary courier.
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M. Billecoq
Feuillans Club
M. de de Cepede
Paris
Gm. d’Ordeans
Jacobins Club
Toulx
Beaucaire
Navy
National Assembly debates lay ahead in Paris
The Assembly learns two departments have chosen Deputies for the next Legislature and approves a motion requiring arriving Legislators to sign their names in the archives. A Mint director may appear to denounce the Money Committee. Decrees propose gendarme units near Bordeaux and revisions to constitutional procedures with guards on veto and timing.
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M. d’ Dude
Paris
National Assembly
M. Souton
Pau
M. de Afencu
Bordeaux
Presentation of the Constitution to the King for Acceptance
A decree was read outlining the procedure for presenting the Constitutional Chart to King Louis XVI and the forms to observe. The orator’s bombastic speech contrasted with the reading of Articles: a deputation to present the Constitution, requests on guards and royal dignity, and a pledge for the King to name the day of his assent or rejection.
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M. Beaumetz
National Assembly
M. Freteau
M. Roberpierre
Tribune
Louis XVI
M. Raderer
Thionville
Mystery of Delay in a Parliamentary Denunciation
The speaker questions M. Rederer’s timing in reporting a long-known fact to the Assembly. He notes the information arrived over three weeks ago via a letter and accuses alarm spread to block royal liberty. The Assembly decrees the committee’s question be submitted to a vote without addressing the interruption’s cause.
Madrid Letters Hint at Quick Peace With Dey of Axders
From Madrid dated August 16 reports hope for a swift peace with the Dey of Axders. Moorish officers with a truce flag met at St Michael's fort and returned letters from Mascara and Algiers. The Dey agreed with the Vice-Consul for a 16 day cessation of hostilities. firing ceased and Moorish forces began moving toward Matcara. The Moroccan king’s brother sought sanctuary in Suez to avoid royal wrath. the Moorish ambassador left Madrid to explain his actions to Morocco.
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Oraxi
Axders
St. Michael’s Fort
Mascara
Algiers
Matcara
Morocco
Suez
Madrid
Polish Deputies Election Opens Amid Turmoil Across Europe
Reported events span Europe from Warsaw where deputies begin polls in the Polish Diet under a new form, to border tensions as German troops desert Luxembourg and the Imperial Cordon. Other items note Edinburgh granting Robert Adam freedom, Monmouthshire premiums encouraging long service and large families, and robberies, executions, and a street accident in London.
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Byckoffqn
Vienna
Neifle
Rome
Spain
Warsaw
Luxembourg
France
Edinburgh
Robert Adam
Monmouthshire Agricultural Society
East India Company
Fenchurch Street
Northumberland House
Earl
Henry the Fourth
British Museum
Henry
Hotspur
Royal George Excise
Ogilvy
Vulcan
Ife
Thomson
Leith Roads
Isleworth Mealman
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T. Ly
Scotland
Highlands
Faeland
Lomspare
Leicester House
Lifle Street
Little Newport Street
Newport-street
Carlton House
St. Martin's Church
National Assembly of France
Louis XIV
M. Goubarp
Agriculture and Commerce
London
Poland
Kingdom
Pyrenees
Europe
Kotzwarra
Joan Filiprya
Tottenham Court Road
Jon
Old Bailey
Black Boy Alley
Bow-street
Bagshot
Hertfordbridge
Salihhutysby
Gloucester Lodge
Weymouth
King
Devon
Joan Pearce
Andrew Knox
Pinner
Harrow-Weald-Common
Knox
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