Sally of Ceuta and French-Muslim clashes noted
The dispatch from Ceuta reports a night sortie by 1, x Companies of Grenadiers and 14 pickets against Moorish camps. 120 Moors killed, over 100 burned, seven women and fourteen children taken, and 454 head of cattle captured. Spanish losses minimal. Paris reports debates at the Chatelet on their rights and authority.
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Marquis de Crux
Ceuta
Don Joseph de'St. Just
Don Joseph de Guevera
Michael d’Ugalde
Cordova
Navarre
Paris
A-la-main
Yan
Royal Chamber
Irish appointments and misfortunes reported at Dublin
Yesterday in Dublin the Master of the Rolls Thomas Carter and others were dismissed from employments while Anthony Malone and Michael O'Brien Dilkes had pensions stopped. John Campbell named Adjutant General of His Majesty's Forces in Ireland. A packet wherry from Holyhead was wrecked near Skerries and looted. Constable Patrick Robinson and Richard Faulkner were arrested for robbing a house of bank notes.
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Ireland
Dublin
Thomas Carter
Anthony Malone
Michael O'Brien Dilkes
Bellingham Boyle
John Campbell
Lord John Murray
Regiment of Highlanders
Regiment of
Scots Greys
Co. Butler
Leicester Packet
Holyhead
Skerries
Patrick Robinson
Richard Faulkner
Newgate
James Drummond M'Gregor Returns from France to London
A report claims James Drummond alias M'Gregor, brother of Robert Campbell alias M'Gregor, now under death sentence in the Tolbooth after escaping the Castle, has traveled from France to London and given important disclosures to the Ministry. Queensferry magistrates publish a resolution condemning vote canvassing and bribery in borough elections, noting a rise in animosity and drunkenness harming families and peace.
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Edinburgh
James Drummond
M‘gregor
Robert Campbell
Tolbooth
London
France
Queensferry
Corruption in the British Constitution and Borough Representation
London essay laments that lower classes effectively rule by electing MPs while the Crown and Parliament are looted by ministerial influence. It recalls historic fair representation where knights and burgesses were paid and accountable, contrasts it with modern buying of boroughs, and calls for reform to curb corruption and restore equal property-based representation. The piece argues the boroughs are corrupt, decayed, and bought, subverting rights and liberties.
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London
Middlesex
Cornwall
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London Evening Post
Madrid
George Haldane
James Murray
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