Cagliostro trial and European unrest report from Rome to Brussels
From Rome and Paris to Brussels the bulletin details Cagliostro's secretive trial with a five hour examination, papal orders for chains, and alleged conspiracies against the government. It covers Naples crowding with foreigners, Boulogne tobacco protests, Antwerp capitulation talks, and evolving Belgian politics as civic and noble powers clash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cagliostro
Naples
de Guiche
Count de Vaudreuil
Paris
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Regiment of Condé
M. Farras
Public Ministry
Count de Mirabeau
de Foucault
de la Chatre Morel
de Chedeville
de la Forte
d’Eymar
Brusells
Inf
Col. Hayden
Antwerp
Pfpen
d’Uriel Hies
van Eupen
Cornet de Grez
Edward Viscount Walchiers
Mount Guard
Address on rights and oath of fidelity to the Nation
An impassioned address warns against precipitate engagements that threaten rights and urges living in the holy religion of liberty. Wednesday the Duke d Aremberg took a public oath to the Nation, with vast crowds and military units forming a hollow square to greet him.
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d’Aremberg
Confraire de
Cambridge Fellows and Masters Advance at Cambridge
Cambridge February 16 Messrs Flibbert and Smith of King's College were elected Fellows of the Society Septimus Stainton Bachelor of Arts of Magdalen College was elected Fellow The Rev Daniel Francis Durand AB and the Rev Thomas Robinson AB of St Johns College were admitted by the Vice Chancellor to the degree of Master of Arts.
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Cambridge
Messrs
Flibbert and Smith
King’s College
Septimus Stainton, Batchelor of Arts
Magdalen College
Daniel Francis Durand
Thomas Robinson
St. John’s College
London Notes and Arrivals in 1790 News Brief
London reports include Countess of Westmorland landing at Dunleary and proceeding to Dublin Castle, revenue gains for the week ending February 12, 1790, ship arrivals from Charleston to Falmouth and back, a disastrous fire at Waplington injuring cattle and a fine horse, 70 convicts arriving at Newgate for Botany Bay, executions at Newgate of Thomas Newton and John Durham, and local marriage and death notices including Ernest Kramer, a clerk of the German office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Countess of Westmorland
Dunleary
Bay of Dublin
Alexander Schomberg
Fanny
Withale
Charleston
Falmouth
Young
London
Hanbury
Hill
Ditto
John Ball, Esq
Waplington
Pocklington
Newgate
Glamorgan
Botany-bay
Thomas Newton
John Durham
Durham
Kirton
Prescott-street
Goodman’s-fields
Tunstall
London-street
Radcliffe
Thomas Ellis
Longlane
Edward-street
Portman-square
Miss Chalmers
Chelea
Ernest Kramer
Hornsay & Co Proposes Paying Every Prize in Full
Crowds throng Hornsay and Co offices to learn of an unprecedented plan to pay every prize in full from 25 000 to 20 prizes. Lottery clubs and societies see immediate gain from instant, undiscounted prize distribution, reviving interest and activity in this practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hornssy & Co
Hornsay & Co
East India Company Stewards and Midshipmen Wanted
Public advertisement seeks a young man of good character to enter the East India Company's service as steward to a captain or to obtain a midshipman place aboard a company's ship for a premium. Any person with such a position to offer may send a line post-paid to the publisher. Secrecy may be provided if required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East India Company
Honourable East India Company
N. B
Refutation of Repeal Arguments and Lottery Advertisements
A period piece advertising refutes the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, listing Bishop Sherlock and Ishop Hoadly and promoting Civil and Religious Liberty pamphlets. It also markets Nicholson’s Lottery Office with prize breakdowns and warnings that only stamped shares are legal, noting past prize shares and upcoming draws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Price
Ishop Hoadly
Sherlock
J. Johnson
Jay
St. Paulis
English State Lottery Tickets Sale Warned in 1790
An 18th century notice advertises English State Lottery tickets and stamped shares for sale at No 104 Bank Buildings Cornhill along with prize structures from past drawings. It lists sample ticket and share values, previous capital prizes, and instructions for remittance to secure tickets, with monthly drawing dates beginning February 22 1790.
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Nicholson
Bankstreet
Cornhill
Bank of England
Yoo
Yoon
Sco
Aten Eabhave Witce
Taylor
Vowerhill
Hickletong
Thy
Miss Edwards
Eptom
Ighardson, Goodluck, and Co
King’s-Mews
Charing-Cross
Wenham
Londn
Thelrith T
Przes
Outrage in Quercy Perigord Sparks Assembly Decrees
Postscript notes February 12 report violence near Quercy and Perigord with noble houses burned and several lives lost as lower classes push for a new constitution. Assembly orders king to enforce August decree, disperse seditious gatherings, disarm vagrants, and trial all detainees while municipal officials report disturbances and prepare punishments.
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Committee of
Quercy
Perigord
Limefin
Autun
France
Committee of Crown Lands
Aristcratic Party
Debtors and Creditors bill debated in London Commons
In the Commons several private bills and petitions were presented including a Debtors and Creditors bill. Alderman Newnham presented a petition from Debtors confined in Newgate. The Mutiny bill report was to be engrossed. Supply and Ways and Means committees were deferred until Friday. Discussion on prior accounts of public money prompted scrutiny of earlier investigations and government replied that accounts have been reported to the King in Council.
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Alderman Newnham
Newgate
Supply and Ways
John Miller
Courtnay
Angela Taylor
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Foreign Intelligence
Rome
Country-News
Prietley
Pitt
Mr. Wakefield
Nottingham
Lowing Capital
Ecol
Sixtgentha I
National Assembly
Howse Or Commons
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