Paris Journals Report Peace Rumors and Frontline Dispatches
The Dover audience relays Paris papers arguing peace rumors are unfounded. News from Lisle, Adina, and Vienna indicates cautious moves by Buonaparte, with Hamburg and Brussels mails noting no definitive treaty yet. Accounts from Jamaica and St Domingue report naval prizes, earthquakes, and French attacks, while Piedmont rests in tranquility and Brussels highlights Prussia’s battle with the Bishop of Bamberg.
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Paris
Redadfeur
Moniteur
L’elair
Council of Elders
L Eerape Politique
Directory
Cape of Good Hope
Ottend
Francé
Adina
Buonaparte
Par
Aviwate
Dover
King’s Packety
Osborne
Mr.Wesley
Liste
Wesley
Lord Grenville
Nne
Lids
Count Coblentz
Vienna
Marquis di Gallo
Venna
Baron Degelman
Piedmont
Brussels
Franckfort
Prussia
Bamberg
Morton Eden
Plymouth
Westmoreland Packet
Edward Dunsterville
St. Domingos
Jamaica
St. Domingo
Mr. West
Biggs
Spearman
Lucas
Adams
Port Royal
Cape Nicola Mole
Havannah
Cuzco
Quito
South America
Port de Paix
St. Marc
Texel fleet action and Batavian convention plans
Hague reports English ships probing Texel, Admiral de Winter drives them back under Captain Bushman. English fleet blocks neutral entries. 32 sails in their force. New Batavian Convention to convene September 1 to draft a constitution. commissions named to prepare and oversee foreign affairs and finances. de Castile likely first president of the new body.
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Texel
de Winter
Bushman
Wis
Serreteivenhe
Tepoxtiok
Vienna orders release of Olmütz prisoners to sail for America
Letters from Vienna report the Imperial Court has ordered the release of the well known Olmütz prisoners. A ship is prepared to transport them to America at their request.
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Vienna
Olnutz
America
English Courier Sees Dispatches From Lord Malmesbury
A British courier traversed Brussels en route to Vienna bearing dispatches from Lord Malmesbury. The report signals ongoing English Austrian negotiations. Warships still patrol the Scheldt coast as a cordon of troops forms to curb contraband goods entering the departments.
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Vienna
Scheldt
English French plenipotentiaries reopen talks at Lisle
Lisle August 16 reports the English and French plenipotentiaries resumed negotiations on the roth after a courier arrived from London. It is stated that progress has been made since then. The inhabitants praise the English embassy for contributing freely to local circulation.
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Malmesbury
London
Baltic fleet sails from Leith in convoy tale
A large Baltic fleet of about one hundred sail sailed from Leith Roads on Saturday under convoy of the Good Intent and Wright armed ships. separate notices report stock purchases, exchequer bills stoppage, and a mutinous outbreak aboard the Canada after wage delays.
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Baltic
Good Intent
Leith Roads
Chancery
Count de Choiseul Gouffier
Academy of Sciences
Petersburgh
Russia
France
Porte
Greece
Holland
Rotterdam
Cornwallis
Canada
Westmoreland
Earl
Royal visit and peace rumors at Weymouth camp
At Weymouth on August thirty, King George III and the Duke of York join officers for riding and dining as Prince of Wales and Duke of York attend. Dispatches read by Mr Hunter hint at peace talks between England and France. Governor Simcoe arrives at the hotel and the Royal Family plans an evening at Mr and Mrs Knight's engagement.
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Lord Berkeley
Prince of Wales
Duke’ of
Agricultural and social notes from the island
The harvest is generally unpromising with blight and rains reducing yields especially for wheat and oats. Markets rise for old samples while new corn is slow to come in. Hay, turnips, clovers and hop plantations face mixed fortunes. The wool trade declines, meat is scarce, and prices rise. The repeal of a law opens private letters, a night storm kills a man in Saddleworth, a Hyde Park meeting ends amicably, a horse performs well on Hampstead road, and actor Button dies in Newgate.
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Forthigh
London
Suffolk
Kent
Hay
Smithfield
Saddleworth
Hyde Park
Capt
Symes
Light Dragoons
Mr. Horn
Gray’s Ton
Swan ‘Inn
New-street
Admiralty
Hampstead
Button
Newgate
Murder charge and other 18th century notices in Southwark press
Reports from Police Office and Union Hall Southwark include Robert Dinwiddie charged with wilful murder by Robert Wheatley and committed for further examination. Thomas Clark committed for trial in Surrey Sessions for breaking and entering Henry Beechy’s dwelling and stealing property. Also noted are a warehouse fire in Leeds, two Gloucester children killed by an old gun, a soldier killing another, a drowning West India Docks, a woman found hanged in Southwark, and militiamen and a coroner's inquest into a seaman's death at Deptford.
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Robert Dinwiddie
Robert Wheatley
Orfner
County of
Surry
Thomas Clark
Henry Beachy
Queen’s Regiment
Bolman
Gravesend
King-street
Southwark
George Hill
Richard Jackson
West London Regiment of Militia
Moulton
Joseph Martyr
Elg
His
Cured after thirteen years with Daoprs medicine
A letter from John Cole of Queen-Anne Street East claims a long illness cured by Daoprs. He reports rapid improvement after one dose and gratitude to Mrs SPILSBURY. The note is signed Aug 16, 1797, with endorsements from George Cassons of Soho. Drops sold for ss and ri 28 each at Sahoe Square Dispensary and patent medicine sellers across Britain.
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John Cole
Queen-Ann Street
Easts
Cole
George Cassons
Nairss Wardour Street
Soho
Sahoe Square
Marriages Read in Various Homes Across England
Reports list several marriages and notices from Warwickshire Yorkshire Devon and London including Jef Jeykil Rey to Moss Clavering Abraham Spooner to Miss Lillingston James Baoburgh to Miss Ance Cowling John Smart to Mrs Elizabeth Roberts and Capt J T Duckworth of the Royal Navy. Obituaries note Mire Catherine M Donagh at 108 and Richard Shateleworth and Willidm Davenport ages 66 and 73.
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Chalcote Park
Warwickshire
Jeykil Rey
Moss DP
Clavering
Kensington
Abraham Spooner
Lillingston
Richmond
Yorkshire
James Baoburgh
Willan
Beckwith
Carey -Street
Sto
E Damerel
Devon
Dewense
Clayton-Tarleton
Elys Oneur
Liverpol
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Hague
Lisle
Weymouth
Police
Union Hall
South Wark
Sporting Intelligence
Egham
Litchfieldy
Warwick
Stockton
Richmnd
York
Shrewford
Bedford
Tewkesbury
Lincoln
Leicester
Northampton
Doncaster
Abingdon
Enfield
Mrs. Spilsbury
Mapawn
Bridge
T.o Slocite
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