Gift to Sir George Howard at Stoke Place
London dispatches recount yesterday’s royal gift to Sir George Howard at Stoke Place. Reports note Baron Trench’s French regiment command, Rossi Pierre as Convention president, and Whitworth to be invested with the Order of the Bath. Empress Catherine’s envoy Count Silvers receives St Andrew.
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George Howard
Stoke-Place
Baron Trench
France
Rossi Pierre
Duartes Whitworth
Petersburgh
Russia
Count Silvers
Marquis ‘Lownshend
Lexdon Heath
Colchester
Rupert Slopen
Saxopholite Society
Prince of
Courtenay
Boston
Lord Courtenay
Gzwon
Nice
Martinique
Guadaloupe
Demerara
Appison
Shakespeare
Newton
National Assembly
London
Glasgow
Paris Dispatches Describe Rumors and Arrests Across France
Thick clouds darken prospects from the South as letters from Nantes and Vendée speak of royalist blockades and harvests. In Paris the bread squeeze tightens while Royalists are jailed in Five and Oz. Notables like Barnave and Gilbert des Veisix face arrest, with factions tugging at release.
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Jxdretz
Nantz
Paris
Five
Soussas
Vervins
James Roux
Commons
Louis the Sixteenth
Barnave
J. Gilbert Des Veisix
French Convention Debates New Coinage and Financial Reforms
The National Convention discusses minting copper and bell metal coins, redefining livre into decimes and centimes, and featuring a brass piece with famed symbols. Debates on suppressing certain finance firms and punishing notaries for forged copies unfold alongside discussions of officer promotions and wartime proclamations from Strasbourg to the Rhine. The assembly approves a thousand million compulsory loan plan and contemplates salary adjustments for high offices.
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Leyfe
Committee of Assignats and Specie
National Convention
France
Camden
Caifée d’Ecompte
Company of Life Insurances
Cambon
Public Safety Committee Orders Powder and Saltpetre Placed Under War Minister
On Wednesday August 28 the Committee of Public Safety decreed that all powder and saltpetre in the Republic be at the disposition of the Minister at War. Saltpetre price to be paid by the State. All powder manufacture workers to follow the Minister’s orders. Representatives report measures to suppress malcontents in the Western Pyrenees and pledge defense of the Constitution. A dragoon named Citi zen Colon aided a wounded officer under heavy fire and a dragoon killed a Dutch captain, boosting morale against the enemy.
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la Croix
Army of the North
Favart
Lavalette
Andremont
Soribourg
Lavafseur
Strasbourg
Merlin
Douay
France
Thibault
Republic
Ramel
Commission of Finances
Lacroix
Casfel
Bergues
Committee of Public Safety
Pyrenaees
Colon
la Croix Rouge
Dumoy
National Guard
Grenoble
Cartaux
Aix
Tarentaise
Lyons
Alps
Mont Blanc
Carrauge
Thouon
Annecy
Geneva
Marseilles
Bourneaux
Dubois Crance
Fijeac
Department of
Lot
Brunet
Italy
National Convention
St. Andre
Gigot
Metz
Revolutionary Tribunal
Billaud-Varennes
Ozsar
Scheldt
Peronne
Cartes
Barrere
Switzerland
Nantz
Soliniere
Lamoliniére
Charles
North
Orchies
Marchiennes
Pas-de-Calais
la Somme
Pitt
la Vendee
Lyons Siege Dispatches and Revolutionary Turmoil Abroad
A Dubois Crance dispatch from Lyons describes a brutal siege with fires and heavy losses among rebels as French forces press the attack. Reports from Strasbourg detail massacres and defections while sections urge decisive public safety measures and crackdown on émigré troops and ci devants.
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Serr
Sociéty of the Sans-culottes of
Chartres
Convention
Distrié
Hazbrouck
Distrix
St. Pol
Eee
Pas- de-Calais
Dubois DE Crance
St. Clair
Saone
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