Fire at Hotel Dieu and Free Masons Stir Paris
The Aug 10 Paris dispatch reports a major fire at the Hotel Dieu with extensive damage and many casualties. It notes renewed clergy opposition to Free Masonry, the arrest of a local magistrate candidate list, a death sentence for Caldwall, and a preaching license revocation for a young minister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Free Masons Lodge
Inquisition
Florence
Hotel Dieu
Paris
Caldwall
Porteous
Lind
Presbytery
Urquhart elected MP for Forres Invernes Nairne Fortrose
In Scotland on July 23 Duncan Urquhart younger of Burdsyeards was elected MP for the burghs of Forres Invernes Nairne and Fortrose in place of his Uncle Duncan Forbes now Lord President of the Session. Edinburgh July 28 Gray the incendiary stood on the pillory in a dusty crowd receiving eggs dirt and garbage before exit. Hugh Blair of Dunrood Esq died suddenly last week to general approval among acquaintances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Porves
Duncan Urquhart
Burdsyeards
Hugh Blair
Dunrrod
Notable Visitors Grow In Scarborough This Season
Scarborough reports an unprecedented influx as near a thousand strangers arrive early in the season. Attending the town are the Duke of Norfolk Sir Miles Seapyrton Sir William Wentworth Sir Robert Eden Hugh Smithson Sir Edmund Barton and many other distinguished persons, with the Duke of Kingston expected daily.
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Scarborough
Duke of Norfolk
Miles Seapyrton
William Wentworth
Robert Eden
Ugh Smithson
Edmund ‘Thomas
Barts
Duke of Kingston
Death of Lady Mary Gore and royal birth notices
London reports the death of Lady Mary Gore at Tring after a brief illness. The Birth of the Princess of Wales sparks public celebrations, christening plans, and appointments of officials. Other items note royal visits, a bonfire at Carleton House, a funeral in Walthamstow, and various overseas dispatches and local civic matters.
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William Gore
Tring
Hertford
Mary Gore
George
Earl of Northampton
Issae
Most Hon. Privy Council
Prince of Wales
Duke of Cornwall
Cleveland-Row
St. James’s
Hampton Court
Elizabeth
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
London Evening-Post
Yterday
France
Country News
London
Pulteney
Tunbridge
St. Jamies’s
Princess of Wales
Lye-In
Carleton House
Pall-Mall
Brett
Society of Free and Accepted
Germany
Duke of Lorrain
Tuscany
Middlesex
Wedminster
Gerard Conyers
Walthamstow
John Eyles
Robert Baylis
William Billers
Edward Bellamy
John Thompson
John Barnard
Powis House
Countess of Montijo
Spain
Heathcote
Cape
St. Jago
New England
Bay of Honduras
St. Kitt’s
Gibraltar
Muly Abdelha
South
Barbary
St. Sepulchre’s
D. A
Scotland Yard
Herbert Price
Board of Green-Cloth
Bunhill Fields
Delvalle
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