French Peace Negotiators Reported and London Trials Begin
The Paris and London correspondence describe the nomination of ministers for peace talks with England and notes the appointment of Letournneur as legation president Calchem as secretary. Reports mention Dutch and Venetian affairs, a Martial Court panel on Parker, and a London livery dinner praising the king and navy with Bristol’s tribute to General Kosciuszko.
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Wwe
Apt
Dire
Wigan Ion
Peate
England
le Tourneur de la Manthe
Preville le Pelay
Maret
London
Letournette
Legation
Calchem
Afar
Lisle
Lord Grentilfe
Lord
Letourneur
Wmerit
Gétioa
Venice
Sénate
Willef
Bonaparte
Austria
Prafig
Tayy
Paris
North
Holland
Texel
Adriatic
France
Duke’of York
Earl Howe
Lord Hood
Duke of
Fort
Earl Spencery
Mr. Dundss
Old
Britain
Ireland
London Auction Notice for Prohibited Goods Sale
A historic auction string lists items allowed for purchase in limited quantities for exportation and home use. Prohibited Indian goods, luxurious textiles, spices, medicines, and various commodities are offered with details on locations at Greenland Dock, Tower Hill, and Custom House, London. Catalogues available for purchasers on specified dates.
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London
S.A L
Forder
Bis
Teesday
India
Paihiers Cilouris
A. Yeffeha
Dan Fursi
East-India
Greenland Dock
Rotherhithe
King's Tobacto
Towerhill
Custom-Hare
Yale
Irish Lottery and Fire Office Meeting Notice 1797
Sun fire office announces a quarterly meeting near the oval exchange in July and calls creditors to file claims. It also advertises an Irish Lottery drawing July 24 with prize details, notes price increases, and asserts low prices and prompt prize payouts for country correspondents.
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Tieis
Tin Suessferesty
F. RE
Harkgur
Great Britain
Irish State Lottery Opens Draws With Large Prizes
Public notice announces the Irish State Lottery drawing begins July 6 with tickets Halves Quarters Eights and Sixteenths on sale at offices in Cornhill London and Meri Trewman and Son and Thomas Beelanges. Capital prizes worth five million sterling are shared and registered by Hornsby and Co. All orders from the three mortgages domains are executed as if purchasers were present. Government securities are bought and sold by commission.
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G. Connavery
Loxboy
Bish and Co
sonTt
India
South
Cormmission
Dpiwarth
Cornaill
Capplohtel
Royal Exchange
Trewman Tand'Sdn
Exkr xi
Thomas Beelange
Lot
Éries
Hornsby and Cos
Governsitdt
Commission
Een
Pest Sof
Wales
The Delegate Letter From Edinburgh and Fleet Insanity Claim
A Edinburgh letter relates Parker's wife saying he is in a state of insanity and was last known aboard the fleet. She says she has not heard from him since May and wishes to travel to London but cannot pay passage. Meanwhile Stanton, wounded during Leopard mutiny events, is shot in the groin and refuses extraction. An incident in the Strand shows a man restrained as a potential Delegate escaping, pursued by Naval Officers.
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Appreal
Thomas Pasley
Erafamus Gower
Neptune
Stanhope
Ditto
Markham
Centaur
Williamson
Agincourt
Wells
Lancaster
Lane
Acatto
Thos, Williams
Endymion
King
Syrius
Pierrepont
Naiad
Rion
Mary Yacht
Parker
Thomas Parley
Admiralty
Royal William
Uii
Sandwich
Bristol
Koleitifke
Edinburghy
Fife
London
Stanton
Strand
Navy Office
Somerset Place
Randers
Portsmouth Furay Seizure at Cumberland Fort
Port stern dispatch describes a 1 PM assembly at Cumberland Fort by coisits who armed and breached the gateway. About forty escaped the fence and moved toward freeing irons. guards and soldiers killed two and wounded seven, seven others missing. Delegates were captured and confined aboard hulks. Orders call for trial of mus tineers in Pomipte with Pakenham set as President.
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Compton
Fons Dutrage
Déven
Pakenham
Mutinies, ships, and a Newgate sentence reported
June 19 Sheerness report notes military ships dispersed at Blackstakes and Little Nore to limit crew intercourse with delegates. Repulse repaired after Bidmouth damage as mutineers escape Nore. Admiral Buckner’s white flag flies. Also: Bequests by Thomas Coventry to Lord Deerhurst heirs. Guildhall sessions: James Clark convicted of rape attempt. sentenced to one year at Newgate. Hole-in-the-Wall keeper Stephen Findall dies by hanging. Coronet Inquest returns lunacy verdict.
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Blackstakes
Little Nore
Bidamouth
The
Nore
Admiral Buckner
Thomas Coventry
the Temple
Lord Deerhurst
Ron Hughes
John Hughes
Thereffore
Newgate
Stephen Flindall
Fleet-street
Marriages in Cambridge Shrewsbury and Westminster Church
A series of marriage notices: Dowlas weds Moss Mainwaring in Cambridge, Lord Myddelton weds Maria Benyon at Shrewsbury, and Henry Hanson Simson to Mary Ann Duberly at St James's Westminster. Also notices Rochelle France Maytide and Capt. Watham Innes of Rothsay and Caithness Fencible regiments, son of William Innes, and Miss Baynes wed to William Baynes of Harefield Place.
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Cambridge
Norwich
Dowlas
Benet College
Moss Mainwaring
Mainwaring
Lady Margaret
University of Cambridge
Shrewsbury
Lord Myddelton
Maria Benyon
Peterborough
St. James’s‘church
Westminster
John Law ‘Willis
AL ‘Rochelle
France
Watham ‘Ennes
Rothfay
High Water at London Bridge Weather Log Note
Friday morning 54 Menai 28 1 oclock afternoon 43. Isa Saturday morning 34 Min nat be afternoon 52 Minus.
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William Hearne
Edward Rendle
Kosciusko
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Sweden
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Germany
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Cumberland Fort
Sheerness
London Bridge
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