Parisian Political Turmoil and Curious Faith Curiosities
The Paris region reports a mayoral tally with Bailly leading 12,550 of 314,010 votes while other candidates appear minor and voters may name any person. It notes stock movements, church superstition in Catholic lands, and bizarre pilgrimages near Paris including a Virgin of Loreto chapel and fables of visions involving d Hozier and Petit Jean with royal implication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mefl
Mounier
Vig
Azyr
Paris Chronicle
M. de Montmorin
National Assembly
Paris
M. Bailly
Ms Wormerton
M.freteau
M. Camus
M. Danton
M. Duport
M. de la Rochefoucault
Garran
Polverel
Batnave
Vacher
M. le Pelletier
Mesfrs
Bailly
d’Omeffon
Freteau
Caiffé d’Escompte
Ix Parvo
Holy House of
Loretto
St. Sulpice
Nazareth
Melf
d’Hozier
Petitean
St. Joud
Petit Jean
Madame Thomaffin
Biving
Nanci
Lorrain
Vaifars
M. d'Hozies
Orléans
English satire and German translated drama staged in Paris theatre
A London reader notes a horrid English attempt to fix a federal con federation epoch and praises a three act prose comedy taken from German performed at the Italian theatre. Volfan, son of a noble, woos Louisa, painter Dorimont’s daughter, posing as a pupil before winning her hand. In Paris, a quarry collapse at Ménilmontant buries five workers, highlighting local danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Lewisa
Volsati
Volfan
Louwisa
Dorimont
Louisa
Ménilmoutant
Paris
Ghent Revolution Treated as Great National Example
The Flemish Gazette reports Ghent’s 22 July destruction of aristocratic influence and the assembly formed Collace presenting civil order. Bells rang, musquets fired, and city illumination marked the event as world news. The Duke d Uriel is said to be liberated. In Vienna, Marshal Laudohn dies, the King mourning and granting for his family, while officers receive leave to honor his career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leyden
Ghent
Collace
Senate
Nobbelegs
Flanders
Netherlands
d’Uriel
Laudohn
Europe
Peace prospects and cabinet moves amid Spain talks
A postscript reports the Prussian Hungarian peace is arranged while Britain adjoins a cautious stance in settlement talks with Spain. Cabinet meetings, stock shifts, and diplomatic nudges mark a tense prelude to potential accord, with warnings against repeating Walpole era delays.
Mary of Plymouth Arrives from Oporto with Wine Report
Mary of Plymouth arrives from Oporto in fifteen days with wine. Captain James Bennet reports Portuguese general reluctance to back Spain in a war with England. He notes the Portuguese queen signaled neutrality and willingness to mediate reconciliation between Madrid and London. Bennet observed no Spanish ships at sea.
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Plymouth
Mary
James Bennet
Oporto
England
Portugal
Madrid
Great Britain
Bennet
Mixed fortunes and local notices from an eighteenth century gazette
The report covers inheritance disputes involving Lieut Macguire and family patronage of the Marquis of Downshire, East India Company tin credit arrangements, multiple marriage announcements, deaths including William Medcalfe and Godfrey Lee, a sheriff declaring ports open for grain imports, barley harvest notes, bee colony progress, a suspicious death in Kirkintilloch, and various ships and trade movements listed at Gravesend.
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Macguire
Marquis of
Downshire
Macpuire
East India Company
Francis
House of Commons
Fa& Is
Connithorne
Cornith
John Jardine
Stoke
Suffolk
Miss Alt
Mr. Alt
Mixbury
Oxford
Kingston-house
Dorchester
James Cholmondeley
Board of Excise
Miss Pitt
Willian Morton Pitt
Dorset
Homerton
William Medcalfe
Godfrey Lee Farerant
High Court of Admiralty
England
High Court of Delegates
Court of Appeals
Commons
Mila. Wyatt
Wyatt
Celmstock
Charlotte Nott
Edinburgh
Silvermills
Stobhall
Capt
Drummond
Perth
Forres
Elon
Podessin
John Watt
Kirkintulloch
New Monkland Kirk
Weste
Moffat
Lanark
Gravesend
Beaver
Soman
Hamburgh
Lark
Murphy
Bourdeaux
Prince of Orange
Mellick
Dunkirk
Madona
Stevenson
Stockholm
Betsey
Firth
Lisbon
Prince of Asturias
M’carthy
Cadiz
Friends
Parcel
Scipio
Dunn
Fred Virginia
Friendship
Paterson
Amsterdam
Blenheim
Metcalf
Davis
Streights
Recovery
Cooch
Waterford
New Providence
Wood
Faro
Pallas
Dunning
Blefsing
Shipley
Memel
Jemima
Petersburgh
Duke of York
Lees
Mogadore
Theatrical Intelligence. Haymarket. Yesterday, New Spain
Theater notes from Haymarket listing yesterday’s shows including New Spain and The Lyar with The Deuce is in Him in the lineup. No further details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haymarket
New Spain
the Lyar
Deuce
Prices and quotes for Banik Stock and others
An OCR fragment lists multiple stock prices and bonds including Banik Stock at various fractions and percentages, Red. 78 r-gth, Navy 5 Per Cent Ann. 196 1-3, Litt Sort, South Sea Stock Old Ann 73, New Navy two ditto, Exchequer Bills, and India treasuries with assorted bid values and fractions, reflecting a mixed market quotation page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
S&s
South Sea
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Gantea
Evektwe Pade
Nature
Orient
Greer
General Evenine
Parisian Intelligence
Vienna
Juvyy
Ilon Don
Berlin
Change Alley
Beunty
Bruitjeden
Sias
Bay of Campeachy
Gallon
R. Wallate
Prado
America
Florida
Carolina
Spain
South Seas
Anton
France
Parry
Barbadoes
Warsaw
Constantinople
Duke of Oreans
Thuilleries
M. de Voglas
M. d’Orleans
Versailles
M. de Biron
M. de la Touche
M.de la Touche
M. Dé Voglas
Pierre
M. de la Towtchey
Portsmouth
Spithead
Vanguard
A. S. Hammond
Bart
Ardent
J. Vathon Andromeda
J.J. Salisbury Carysfort
M. Smith
Sc. Helen’s
Lord Howe
L. Gower
Sir R. Curtis
Formidable
Keith Stewart Bronswick
H. Parker Courageux
A. Gardner Afattrious
A. Edgar
Marlborough
Cornish
Vengeance
T. Rich Roebuck
Hospital
G. Lindsay Latona
A. Bertie Iphigenia
P. Sinclair Spithre
Freship
BR. Warren Tifiphone
Fireship
C. Tyler
Elephant
Lion
Earl of Guildford
Kent
Oxfordshire
Dorset-fleet
Salisbury-square
Fleet-street
Cuthbert Johnson
Vauxhall
Queen Charlotte
Banik
Layal
Tor
India
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