Metzdestined Dispatches and Hidden Bastille Skeletons Revealed
Friday May 7 reports a courier from Metz with important dispatches for Count de la Tour du Pin. Paris notes tension between the Metz garrison Bourbonnais regiment and the National Guard. In old Bastile ruins at Oudiettes, workmen uncover subterranean dungeons with skeletons and bones cemented in mortar, including a skeleton likely 66 years old and another about 40 years.
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Court life and war talk at St James's drawing room
The London crowd gathers at St James's for a Drawing-Room with Duke of Clarence, Lord Lifford, and other nobles. Dispatches to Gibraltar and the West Indies forewarn governors of possible Spain tensions. Navy arms and dates, plus updates from Berlin, temper the mood as Parliament debates a royal message on maritime spoliation and redress.
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Ships in the Downs in early May 6 percent deal
Wind W arrived and sailed for the River the Jane and Reay from Lisbon and Pelican from St Abe's for Stockholm. His Majesty's ships Royal George Aftrea Scout sloop Cockatrice and Barracouta cutters remain in the Downs for Gibraltar.
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Middlesex Election Freeholders Dine for Waring in 1790
The freeholders of Middlesex are invited to dine at Freemasons Tavern Lincoln’s Inn Fields on Wednesday May 19 1790 to support William Main Waring Esq the present worthy Member. Stewards offer tickets at seven shillings sixpence each with dinner served at three o’clock.
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