European War News and Political Debates Chronicle
A dense dispatch covers Cadiz harbor lines and English tension, Archduke Ferdinand’s movements, Belgian patriots defeat, Finland weather and military transports, Vienna negotiations for a truce with Prussia Sweden and Poland, Bosnian sieges, Turkish border moves, and Dutch political proceedings on tobacco excise with parliamentary divisions and committee moves. The report blends war news, diplomacy, and domestic policy in a single continental snapshot.
Cambridge admissions and appointments in May article
Country News reports Lord William Beaugl erk, second son of the Duke of St Alban's, admitted to Trinity College Cambridge. William Michell of Caius College becomes Bachelor of Arts. Rev W Cooper M A Fellow of Clare Hall is named His Majesty's Preacher at Whitehall. Rev J Watson M A is instituted to Frampton vicarage by Lord Bishop of Lincoln on presentation by John Tunnard Esq.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
William Beauglerk
John Tunnard
Amendments in Lords Lottery Bill Debate
In the House of Lords a Committee of the Whole discussed the Lottery bill with Lord Loughborough proposing amendments. He aimed to correct a wording in the preamble about dividing tickets into shares and refine the distribution provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Loughborough
House or Commerce Bills Read and Amended on May 25
The chamber read a third time and passed the Clare car rying bill. Amendments from the Lotus were agreed to in private bills. After the session, members adjourned.
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Lotus
Royal airing and foreign dispatches recount court life
Yesterday the royal family visited Kew Palace and Buckingham, with the Prince of Wales attending audiences at Bagshot Park and a Park Lane visit. A Stockholm letter reports General Armfeldt at Karnakoszi repelling a Ruffian attack with heavy losses, while the king endures hardships and may command the fleet. Constantinople confirms the Grand Vizier Hassan Pacha’s death and Abdel Hamet’s hopes for peace, as Prussia’s King remains in Berlin and Count Schulenberg de Blumberg dies at 74.
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Kew Palace
Buckingham House
Royal
Prince of Wales
Carleton House
Bagshot Park
Earl of Eglington
Mr. Sheridan
Cher, de Farre
Duke of Orleans
South Street
Park-lane
Stockholm
Baron Hamilton
Armfeldt
Karnakoszi
Igelstram
Denilaw
Tne
Constantinople
Hassan Pacha
Porte
Abdel Hamet
Prussia
Berlin
Morley
Count Schulenberg de Blumberg
Royal music event and legal notices from Old Bailey trial
At Westminster Abbey a royal audience of 2000 to 2500 witnessed an unparalleled performance by 1200 musicians with the Prince of Wales and royal family present. The Hallelujah chorus drew acclaim and fainting, while the conductor praised the band’s honour. Separately, a fraud trial at the Old Bailey ended with a verdict for the defendants as several prisoners faced various sentences. Married notices follow in Reading Edinburgh Bristol, and obituaries record deaths in Reading Rathbone Place and Chipping Norton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster Abbey
Prince of Wales
Dukes of York
Bedford
Archbishop of Canterbury
Bithers
Quesson
Queston
Caf
Old Bailey
Willig Jenkinson
William Read
Henry White
Thomas Hopkins
Elizabeth Afxer
Richard Turner
Alexander Wood
Miss Fuller
John Fuller
Salisbury
Edinburgh
James Williamson
Leith
Elizabeth Colquhoun
Sir George Colquhoun
Bristol
Philip Stanhope
Inner Temple
Miss Daniel
Daniel
Reading
John Haylie
Rathbone-place
Blarnage
Col. Blarnage
Gadl Regiment
Thomas Mackarness
Chipping Norton
Oxfordshire
Freedom of the Trinity House to the Duke of Clearice
The Trinity-House in Newcastle unanimously grants freedom to the Duke of Clearice. Sunday a royal procession will go from the Lord Mayor’s office to St Paul’s and thence to Goldsmiths Hall for a formal dine. News notes a defensive treaty to Liege, naval arrivals, and a Windsor Castle launch. Government plans a Powder Magazine at Athlone. A court ruling upholds liberty of the subject against warrantless tobacco smuggling. A Liverpool mail-coach case concerns seven bank notes valued at fifty pounds each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity-House
Newcastle
Duke of Clearice
St. Paul’s
Goldsmiths-hall
M. Vandernoot
Liege
Germany
Melville Cade
Dundas
Bengal
St. Helena
Earl of Mansfeld
Winterton
England
Inglefield
Spry
Utrica
Portsmouth
Corporation of
Mewcaile
Suesday Lair
Rothe
Valiant
Bury
Shields
Deptford
Portmouth
Cadiz
Athlone
Ireland
Shannon
Duke of Richmond
Lord Kenyon
King’s Bench
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France
Maprip
Florence
Archduke Ferdinand
Vierma
Cafoglio
Cologne
Stockholn
Finland
Louisa
Meyerfeldt
Hungary
Vienna
London
Sweden
Poland
Petersburgh
Prince Cobourg
Suwarrow
Frankfort
Gradiska
Efelavonia
Dubitza
Serafowa
Trawnick
Podranitza
Scutari
Croatia
Brussels
Madame Dubuision
Lisle
Democratic Party
M. Verries
Viscount Wasiers
Flanders
Ghent
Empire
Wurtzburg
Hussars
Texel
Admiral Kinsbergen
Baltick
Hague
Douglas
House of Commons
Earl Fitzwillica
Iis
Viscount Stormont
Marquis Townspend
Country News
House of Lords
Seconn
Granp
Performance
McEssian
Guildhall
Adams
Messrs. Wilson and Co
Liverpool
Daventry
Unty Hospital
Northampton
County Hospital
William Kerr
N.B
Brinsted
Southampton
William Earle
Alexander Baxter
Odiham
Clement
Alton
Farnham
SCOTT
Tiffany
J. Scott
Strand
Scott's
Vince
Boagls
G. Walker
Nottingham
J. Johnson
St Paul’s Churchyard
G. Egerton
Whitehall
Leweds
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