Leyden Riots Prompt Dutch Guards to Quell unrest
From de London Gazette Hague November 19 reports Leyden residents forming new pretensions and pressuring Fregericy. Prince of Orange orders a dragoon and foot guard detachment to Leyden to protect magistrates. Gorcum returns seven new regency members to Scoonhoven. Disturbances persist amid embezzlement legacy.
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Leyden
Prince of Orange
Highnness
Dra
Gorcum
Scoonhoven
Gorciim
Evacuation Demands and Vienna Council Reshuffle
An extract from a letter at Aix-de-Chapelle reports Sate General pressure on France to speed evacuations of ceding places. It notes Vienna’s shift from appointing a new minister to creating a council led by the Duke of Aremberg, subordinate to Prince Charles of Lorraine. Several ministers abroad protest exclusion from Congress and duplicity of hopes.
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Aix-de-Chapelle
United Provinces
France
Count de St. Severin
Marshal Lowendahl
States General
Low Countries
Charles of Lorrain
Court of
Vienna
Duke of
Aremberg
Prince Charles of
Liege
Royal Family Arrives and Troop Reductions At Versailles
A mail from France reports the Queen and Dauphins returning from Choisy to Versailles with the King expected next week. The Dauphiness and ladies are hunting, while the King and Dauphin meet them. Versailles apartments are prepared for Infant Don Philip’s consort and her daughter, and the Trianon is furnished for their stay. Four troop reductions are issued: Rohan and Ponthieu down to two battalions, D Anjouger, La Marche, Vexin, Baffigny and Fleury down to one battalion, plus cutbacks in Royal German and Rosén regiments and Nassau squadrons. horse companies reduced to 30 men each across seventeen dragoon regiments. foot-dragoon regiments reduced to 60 men.
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Choisy
Versailles
Dauphin
Choify
Don Philip
Trianon
Rohan and
Ponthieu
D’angermois
la Marche
Vexin
Baffigny
Fleury
Royal
Rosén
Nassau
Magnificent Swedish Birthday Celebration Planned Abroad
Madrid reports Don Antonio Gaitan presents a 6th volume of his Genealogical History of the House of Braganza to the Portuguese Majesty. A Triton frigate from Isle of France arrives at Port L'Orient with news that Admiral Griffin’s squadron cruised the Indian Ocean coast and the Ganges region, suffering losses but preparing to sail to Pondicherry with troops and ammunition. several Company ships return, including the Penthievre Whale and Male, and the Valants from Santo Domingo. The Dublin Society prizes await and verses honor William the Third, while local Newcastle and Gloucester items note wrecks, deaths, and regiments arriving for winter.
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Paris
Madrid
Lisbon
Antonio Gaitan
Susa
Academy of Portugal
House of Braganza
Triton
Isle of
France
Port L’orient
East India Company
Griffin
Corromandel
Bengal
Tryton
Ile of France
East-India Company
Centaur
Pondicherry
Sieur David
Bourbon
Ganges
Valants
St. Domingo
Death of John Burnet of Elrick at Aberdeen
News from Aberdeen reports John Burnet of Elrick, Esquire, died there on Wednesday in the 35th year of his age. It notes the arrival of Lieutenant-General Handafyd's Regiment and mentions Col Battereau's Regiment having been broke at Stirling. It also states all Officers on the Irish Establishment are ordered to their posts.
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Newcastle
Bryan Wall
Sunderland Road
Perkinson
Sunderland
Tinmonthaven
William Busfield
Ryshworth
West-Riding of
Yorkshire
Thomas Busfield
Howard
Dragoons
Wade
Gloucester
Thomas Gregory
Uly
Susannah Thomas
Timothy Thomas
Edinburgh
Aberdeen
John Burnet
Elrick
Handafyd
Col. Battereau
Stirling
Fire and assault in Dublin on William's Birthday
Frightful events unfold as a housekeeper wounded by a coachman's violent strike fractures his skull during a William's Birthday bonfire. A shop fire at Mr Sheil's grocer in Abbey Street destroys the shop and damages nearby buildings. Lord Chancellor opens the term at Four Courts. Noted deaths and a horse import scene follow. details mixed with damaged fragments.
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Irelan
Dublin
Drumcondra Lane
William
Sheil
Abbey-street
Henry’ Médder
Edward Sims
Gaftleloft
Westameath
Joan Smith
Violettown
Laid County
Ships Arrive and Sail in Returnward Trade Listings
Seaport records note multiple arrivals and departures from Nov. 14 to Nov. 15. Vessels include the Thomas and Mary Ely from Chichester to Cork, the Charlotte Caswell from Hamburgh to Deal, and several outward bound ships with ports such as St Kitts Marseilles and Leghorn. Also listed are arrivals at Cork Dublin Southampton Naples Whitehaven and Scilly from Virginia Jamaica Guernsey Exeter Petersburgh Newfoundland London and more.
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Wis
Cowes
Thomas and Mary
Ely
Chichester
Cork
Portmouth
Charlotte
Caswell
Hamburgh
Deal
Wiltshire
Bretman
St. Kitt’s
Kenie
Marseilles
John
Blandy
Virginia
Michael
Hyron
Petersburgh
Royal Duke
Archbold
Newfoundland
Ditto
Bee
Legar
Scilly
Thetis
Levermore
Falmouth
Leghorn
Prodigious Proficiency of Archduke Joseph in Riding Reported
London reports say Archduke Joseph shows great skill in riding and exercises as Hungarian nobility gather around him. Empress's decree on his residence at Buda stirs the nation and may prompt testimonies at the diet at Presburgh in months ahead. Private letters from Frankfurt and other German cities allege Prussian army expenditures are enormous, suggesting Willem influence on subsidies and state coffers.
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London
Vienna
Joseph
Buda
Presburgh
Franckfort
Ratifle F
Germany
Lutian
Forté
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Hague
Foreign Affairs
Paris Alamain
Prince
Sweden
Penthievre
Chateau-Villain
Sims
England
Dublin Society
Tribune Society
Liberty
George
Britannia
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