Ottoman Divan backs hard line on land rights amid turmoil
Reports from Consantinople describe a Divan assembly where the Mufti’s strong stance against ceding Ottoman land to the Rufsians is praised by the public. Meanwhile Swedish, Danish, and Portuguese notes hint at royal marriages, governance changes, and naval incidents across Europe and India.
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Daxynse
Tury
Ottoman ‘Empire
Fias
Stockholm
Swedish Pomerania
Frederick Adolphus
Brunswick-Wolfenbuttle
Hamburgh
Copenhagen
Wilhelmina
Hesse-Darmsadt
Utrecht
Goa
Council of State
Sardinia
Savoy
Daring Irish Robbery at Gore’s Grove House
Kilkenny notes a bold robbery at Charles Gore of Gore's Grove on a Wednesday night. Ten robbers attacked between nine and eleven, four entered, three men knocked down Gore with a hatchet. They looted 100 guineas, six guineas from Gore's purse, one guinea six shillings sixpence from Miss Gore, then stole two coach horses and a bay gelding before fleeing.
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Irellan
Corke
Trish
Kilkenny
Charles Gore
Gore’s Grove
Mr. Gore
Free pardon for Mary Hall in county jail murder case
Liverpool april 2 report that last week a free pardon was granted by his Majesty to Mary Hall who had long sat under a death sentence for the murder of her illegitimate child in the county jail. Also Lancaster crown side ended with Joseph Bounds sentenced to be hanged for robbing David Paxton on the highway.
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Wincheser
Mary Hall
Liverpool
Lancaster
Joseph Bounds
David Paxton
Dover
Calhoun
Trevanion
Barrett
Madrid
Lyons
France
Bourdeaux
Groyne
Cantabria
Buenos Ayres
Camarina
Hibernia
Jefferson
Ostend
Marseilles
76Th
Arsault
Gage
Farmer
Cowes
South Carolina
Charlese Town
Coleman-street
London-wall
Viscount Falmough
Garrick
William Garegign
Excise
John Morris
Devonshire-treet
Bloomsbury
Francis Marshall
Bath
George Colman
Covent-garden Theatre
Playhouse-Yard
Arrival and departure ships in Gravesex April
Ships arrived and sailed for the river with several vessels named including Passage from Ostend Jamaica Carolina and Lisbon listed among arrivals at Gosport Penzance Cork and Plymouth with multiple captains and origins such as Dublin Jamaica Carolina Barbados and Virginia noted in a wind and vessel movement record.
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Apare
Wind
Tee Trabella
Randall
Dublin
Gravesexe
Ostend
M‘kenzie
Hanover
M‘cullock
Jamaica
Fortune
Maddox
Carolina
Bernard
Yorick
Steele
Duchess of Manchester
Casey
Lisbon
Adtive
Seager
Alicant
Georgia-Packet
Anderson
Georgia
Union
Preston
Maryland
Boston-Packet
Lytle
Boston
Johanna
Bythewood
Guernsey
Hopewell
Martin
South Carolina
Gosport
Britannia
Hentey
Cadiz
Penzance
Providence
Lovering
Cork
Ditto
Duke of York
Williams
Teneriffe
Magdalen
Haire
Dover
Juno
M‘dunn
Viginia
Lady Gave
Farmer
Cowes
Diamond
le Vescante
Saloe
Plymouth
Chorley
Critchley
Barbadoes
Liverpool
Ann
Kennedy
East India Company Affairs Debate Grips Commons
Yesterday in the House of Commons a major East India related discussion drew a crowded chamber with members filling the gallery. Mr Dowderwell presented a petition from Major Grant, brother in law to Captain Kinzie, as the Secret Committee report on the East India Company was to be delivered.
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Tl Ooon Dork
House of Commons
East-India Company
Dowderwell
Kinzie
Tno
Debie
India
Willels
Dempster
M'Kenzie
Civil Department
M‘kenzie
McKenzie
Gregory
Major Grant
Col. Coote
Revenue
Kenzie
Johnstone
Bacon
Lord North
East India Company
America
Dowdeswell
Edmund Burke
Secret Committee rebuked over Captain M'Kenzie case
Debates in Parliament center on re committing a clause about charges against Captain M'Kenzie, brother-in-law to Major Grant, with Burke and Dempster urging caution. Advocates argue the committee misused ex-parte evidence, while ministers defend its scope and intent amid India related malpractices and extortion allegations.
House debate on committee report after holidays
Fragmentary text notes a debate on a report from a select committee. It mentions Lord North’s resolutions, division avoided, Col Burgoyne’s report, and timing “Wednesday or Thursday” to bring up the report so the House can proceed after the holidays.
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Lord North
Col
Burgoyne
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Apris
Merciay
Wotan
Flanders
Ieng
Sonia
S Ome
Va‘dia
Britis
Grant
Secret Committee
Mkenzie
Dowdewell
Treasury Bench
Jenkinson
Stanley
Dyson
Burke
Dempfer
Mr Kenzie
Capt
Mir. Dempster
Duke of Gloucester
Grosvenor Street
Adair
Dottor Jebb
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