Paragraphs on French politics and European conflicts
The text discusses Lafayette liberty demands, the Directory’s stipulations, and prisoner releases. It notes Carmatin’s influence and Princess of France as a prior condition, mentions Meyer's recall and Vos Van Steehoye as minister, and speculates on a Paris Congress. Reports on Temple prisoners, rising public funds, and Prussian troop movements near Warsaw and Silesia. Venetian government changes bring unrest despite new leadership and prosecutions.
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Directory
France
Buonaparte
la Fayette
Prusia
Warsaw
Silesia
Lithuania
Dantzic
Berita
Miglia
Verona
Venice
Villetard
Mazini
Batagia
Gandolini and
Spada
Cayenne Colony in Decline Despite Prizes and Debt
Cayenne reports a dire colony with little work and crops. Expenditures total 2,509,009 livres while output falls below 300,020. Prizes saved them from famine but imports have dried up leaving two months of provisions. Debt to a Baltimore captain remains unpaid as stores empty.
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Cayenne
Baltimore
Ancona Voices Independence Hope Amid Buonaparte Pressure
In Ancona on May 7 the Revolutionary Party claims General Buonaparte urged them to push independence. Proponents press for change while cautious opponents depart the city, leaving Ancona to decide the fate of the March and the Duchy of Urbino.
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Revolutionary Party
Buonaparte
Cispadane Republic
Ancona
Ad Alfo
Duchy of
Urbino
French convoy flee as English squadron blocks entry
Nantes reports armed cutters from Brest racing to aid a convoy bound for Nantes Rochefort and Bourdeaux. An English squadron of a ship, three frigates, and a lugger pursued the fleet, forcing it to shelter near Hodi erne and Penmarks. Brest readies two ships of the line and other craft to free and guard the convoy entry. An English prize valued at 200,000 livres was brought in.
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Brest
Nantes
Rochefort
Bourdeaux
Hodierne
Revolutionary Tensions Persist Under Arms in Government
Government defenders remain armed as Afficiates and the Leffér Council fail to restore order. Private revenge surfaces from behind the curtain as people are misled from their interests. Senators Cattaneo and Serra were dispatched to General Buonaparte with secret instructions. A courier faced heavy resistance en route, with hope pinned on a striking event upon his return.
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Leffér
Cattaneo
Serra
Buonaparte
Peace efforts and martial plans weigh on French German front
France and Austria move fortifications amid quiet quarters as Count Schlick tours German courts to prep for a general Congress of Peace. Austrian garrisons strengthen Ulm while France repairs Kehl. If Prussia refuses to return Franconian districts, the Emperor as Empire head will issue an Executoral Mandate ordering neighboring states to dispossess the Prussian monarch by armed force.
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Count Schlick
Ulm
Kehl
Prussia
Franconia
Empire
Poland Restoration Favored by Russian Emperor
A report from Warsaw on June 2 suggests Poland may regain political existence with restoration favored by the Russian Emperor. The former king remains allied with him, and Prince Repnin’s mission to the Prussian Court is said to aim at this objective.
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Republic of Poland
Rusia
Istill
Repnin
Defenders, Oaths and Militias Spur Dublin Security
Dublin report details Sheriff Linfay seizures and arrests of Marma duke Goldfoury and five others for sedition. Court Martial near Cork sentences two privates from the Kildare Militia. Ormond presides over the court. Defenders overrun Kildare. Monastereven sees two men jailed for oath taking and aiding Defenders. Volunteers celebrate sovereign birth with mock fight, clergy and officials praised for allegiance oaths and arm supplies. Carrickfergus gaol receives three aiding France, while Newry and Sheepsbridge suspects await in Belfast guard room. Lisburn notes Orange burnings, inflicting losses on Teeling.
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Kildare
Earl of Ormond
County of Kildare
Monastereven
Huftace
Naas
Kelly
Caffily
Armagh
Dublin
Carrickfergus
Newry
Sheepsbridge
Belfast
Respectable tradesman detained for treasonable correspondence at the Nore
A tradesman was taken into custody on Friday for corresponding with persons on board the fleet at the Nore. Last week three men from Ludgate Hill Strand and Hungerford visited mutinous ships, spent a day near the Sandwich, and were found with letters and papers judged inflammatory. They claim they visited out of curiosity and were forced by Delegates to deliver the papers to town contacts.
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Nore
Ludgate-hill
Strand
Hungerford
Sandwich
His
Trial adjourned over blasphemy case at King’s Bench
Record shows Thomas Williams book seller in Holborn facing blasphemy charges for selling Paine’s Ape of Reason. Case postponed to next term on Crown’s motion. Also noted are Westminster election dispute with Lord Hood and Lord John Townsend arbitration, and Thomas Green the custom officer convicted of misappropriating India bandannas.
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Thomas Williams
Holpern
Felling Paine
Garrow
Hood
Westminster
John Townsend
Thomas Green
Ships Seized in Mediterranean Trade Routes
The Veloche Calelut sailing Naples to London is captured by the French and brought to Cagliari. The Favourite Mutrea sailing Martinique to Cork is also taken by the Thetis French frigate at lat 34, long 33, with the crew delivered to Rochefort.
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Calelut
Naples
London
Cagliari
Mutrea
Martinique
Cork
Rochfort
Fleet movement and ships in Plymouth Sound
Plymouth on June 8 reports the Fly a 16 gun ship sailing eastward and the City of Dantzick arriving from Dantzick. Two fleets passed the Sound that day from the east believed to be the East India and Quebec fleets. Magnanime of 38 guns under Captain De Courcey came from Hamoaze to the Sound.
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Dantzick
East India
Quebec
Hamoaze
de Courcey
Thames frigate and Scourge sail to West Indies
In Falmouth on June 7 the Thames frigate and the Scourge sloop failed a morning voyage with the fleet under convoy bound for the West Indies. The brief note records the ships and route without additional cause or outcome.
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Thames
West Indies
Pallas cartel arrives from Brest with officers and merchants
Portmoths reports the Pallas cartel, Captain Corbett, delivering 69 merchantmen and about 490 inferior officers from Brest. The vessel left Monday as 17 ships of the line and 13 frigates lay in the inner roads, seemingly manned unevenly. A proclamation on mutiny was read at the dock yard, and Captain Sir H B Neale of the St Fiorenza distributed 1701 to ship’s company for loyal conduct during the mutiny incident.
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Pallas Cartel
Corbett
Brest
Pallas
Edward Pelléw
Lord Bridport
Ushant
H. B. Neale
St. Fiorenza
Nove
Naval movements and mutiny report from St Helens
June 10 details a convoy for Lisbon under the Alcmene and another for the West Indies with Charon at St Helens stalled by calm. A Fly sloop and a cartel from France arrive with 250 prisoners. A mutiny at Chester prompts riot suppression and weapon damage, with two invalids and a customs officer killed.
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Alcmene
Lisbon
Charon
West Indies
St. Helen’s
France
Triumph
Roger Curtis
Chester
Parkgate
Chester ‘Volunteers
Col M’dowel
Custom House
Derry
Grain market prices and imports in London ports report
Embargo affected vessel loading with few grain arrivals. Wheat and other grains show mixed prices. sugar, hay, and seed costs listed. Inward corn entries note oats from Embden and Holland, with barley from Bremen. Market tallies include beef, mutton, veal, and pork ranges and livestock counts at Smithfield and Newgate.
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London
Embden
Holland
Price of Tallow and Hides and Coal Rates
Price of tallow in London listed by market and quality with rates from St James's, Clare Market, and Whitechapel, plus raw hides prices for calves, middling, and lambs. Also coal prices in the River for Newcastle and Sunderland. Marital notices record Captain Maney’s engagement to Eugenia Money and memorial notices for Richard Cairns and George Neale.
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St James’s Mark
Clare Market
Whitechapel
Dittcrough
Graves
Newcastle
Sunderland
Captain Maney
Walthamstown
Eugenia Money
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Francefort
Fune
Linfay
Marmaduke Goldfoury
Wexford
Trench
Galway
Lisburn
Teeling
King's Bench
Ship News
Plymouth
Falmouth
Portsmouth
R. Parker
Scotland
Perth
Gbeh Ren Sher
Fime
Pollard
Kent
Sulex
Sulsex
Op Essex
Farn
St. James’s
Whitechapel Haymarket
Satur
Hay
Newgate and Leadenhall
England
Wales
Issodaasod
Witham
Essex
Richard Cailis
His Majesty’s Dragoon Service
George Neale
London Hospital
Leadenhall
Butts
Rgi
London Bridge
O’slagk
Alow
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