Turkish Commissions Arrive at Jafly For Potemkin Accord
Vienna dispatches report Turkish Capidgi Bachi and two marshals reaching Jafly with demands for terms. Potemkin rejects an initial set of articles, then negotiators hint at possible peace as Turkish envoys press for a settlement while troop movements and passports stir speculation. The embassy commends the Turkish conduct and patience.
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Jafly
Potemkin
Reis Effendi
Ace
Capidgi Bachis
Tie Tuite
Capidgi Bachi
Reconciliation at Court and Atlantic News Briefs
London reports Prince Ed ward and the Duke of York in audience with the King before the prince sails to Gibraltar. The Prince of Wales gifts 160 guineas to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Dispatches from Trieste, Providence, and Charleston detail military actions, slave trade debate, and local elections. Chief Clerk election at Christ Hospital names Richard Corp after rivals resign.
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Prince Edpalward
Duke of York
Gibraltar
Brooks
Prince of Wales
Society For Promoting
Trieste
Pacta
Scutari
Croatia
Providence
Rhbode Island
Charleston
South Carolina
Washington County
Harling
Senate
West-Indies
Christ Hospital
Eyre
Richard Corp
Rivington and Crosby
Court of Delegates adjourns over costs dispute
The Court of Delegates at Serjeants-inn-hall heard Counsel in the Strathmere versus B case. An affidavit was deemed informal, delaying the hearing to next Friday as two judges visit King’s Bench to take Mr. B’s oath. B asserts payment would deny support for his two children. Lady Strathmore offers maintenance at her expense. News also notes ship losses, a damning death by own act, and several notices of marriages and deaths across England.
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Serjeants-inn-hall
Chancery-lane
Countess of Strathmere
Mr. B
King’s Bench
Perth
Gunfleet
Pitt
Johnsons
Joseph Banks
Joshua Reynolds
William Scott
Lawrence
Brocklesby
Burney
Old Bond-street
Cropton
Yorkshire
Marmaduke Harrison
Neisheld
Wrelton
Yuesday
J. Luxford
Cecilfred
Strand
C. Wheeler
St. James’s Street
Hatfield Peverel
Essex
Peter Luard
Mary-Anne Bennet
John Malkelyn
Warminster
Leghorn
Italy
Liane
Theophilus Lane
Hereford
Lee
Kent
Newland
Tnight
Welcome Nook
Corney
Lord Mailareene
Barnet
Holborn
John Tomkyns
Lean Gadwallader
North Wales
Hug Llewellyn
Hornsby and Co Offer Broad Lottery Benefits to Purchasers
The public has never seen a more beneficial proposal for buyers of tickets and shares. Hornsby and Co pledge to pay the full amount of every prize, a saving equaling ten thousand pounds on the lottery product. Benefits extend beyond capital prizes to every winning wicket or share, even the smallest prize, promising broad public appeal.
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Hornsby & Co
The Cape of Good Hope Described as Slave Trade Hub
A fragment from The Historical Pocket Library condemns the Cape of Good Hope as a major rendezvous for ships to Asia where Europeans buy enslaved Africans from rulers and families. The passage details the forced transport to distant lands, daily labor on sugar estates and mining, and the brutal cruelties of owners and overseers, provoking horror at this barbarity and the cries of humanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape of Good Hope
Pocket Library
Asia
Taylor's Logarithms and Subscriptions Open
The administrator announces Taylor's Logarithms of Numbers and Logarchic Lines with tables and explanations. Subscriptions remain open until the next Lady Day before price rises to four guineas. Subscriptions at Elmsley’s and Wingrave’s, opposite Catherine Street, Strand.
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Taylor
Rte
Michael “Taylor
Elmsley
Soft Power of Sweetness in the Mirage Grove
A lyrical fragment evokes Mirza and Selma in a scented grove with references to Arabic imagery and romantic longing. The speaker praises love, beauty, and desire while weaving elaborate floral and exotic metaphors across a twilight setting. The verse dwells on fragrance, glamour, and unattainable idealized love.
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Mirza
Lara
Rafah
Samara
Alsey
January 23 Postscript on Guillotin proposals and finance decree
Postscript discusses three proposed articles of criminal jurisprudence by M Guillotin limiting family disgrace from crimes, preserving rights, and permitting burial rites. It reports a Finance Committee decree on budgeting debts by department and paying current expenses monthly from January 1, 1790, with continued arrears of annuities.
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M. Guillotin
Committee of Finance
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Hetheriad
YoungGet'eman
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Duc de- Ciray Ryice
Boc. &E. Fiag
Finchale Priory
Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure
W. Bent
Universal Magazine
Tate
England
Europe
J. Johnson
St. Paul's Churchyard
Aft
Sweden
Gustavus Wafa
Denmark
Count Schruenzee
Durti
William Radcliffe
A. B
Oriel Cojlege
Oxford
G.kearsler
Literary Review
Aday
English Review
Lavater
Esay
Cullen
Materia Medica
Archaologia
Val. Wile
Newcastle
Khajeh Abdul- Keurreem
Boulis
Great-Britain
Furose
Betwice
Ani Hi
Subje
Austrian Netherlands
N.B. Geniemen
J. Murray
J. Sibbald
Edinburgh
M. Lavoisier
Academy of Sciences
Royal Society of Medicine
Agricultural Society of Paris
Royal Society of Londen
Orleans
Bolognay Basil
Philadephia
Haarlem
R. Kerr
F. R
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Orphan Hospital
W. Creech
G. G. Wid J. Robinson
Patermotter
Haye
Evstince Post
India
Swallow Packer
Bocarez
Sir William Jones
Eyra
Araby
Balfora
Selma
Bet Mirza
Sultana
Postscript
Arisian Intelligence
National Assembly
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