Prussian advances and Paris royal notes dominate long dispatch
Warsaw reports widen factional doubts over a Permanent Council amid Prussian troop advances and Fraustadt seizure. Paris notes King Louis XVIII’s reign signals with public cheers. Fire devastates Monneftier near Briancon. royal family smallpox updates follow. Shipping news from Deal and Dover lists arrivals and sailings. London Parliament passes various bills and military reorganization.
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Warsaw
M. Benoit
Prusian
Prince Worovicki
Wilczewski
Fraustadt
Berlin
Prusia
Oliva
Dantzick
Paris
Monneftier
Briancon
Choify
Adelaide
Sophia
Vitoria
la Muette
Princes of the Blood
Count de Maurepas
Reading of the Booksellers Bill Passes to Lords
Debated in the House on the bills to lay a duty on printed and dyed cot tons imports. Members aged forty and twenty two divided. The bill will proceed to the House of Peers on Tuesday. The Air and Calder bill passed third time and moved to the Lords. Session adjourned to Monday.
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House of Peers
Air and Calder
Lords
House of Commons Passes Bills and Debates Quebec Government
The House of Commons passed bills to curb exports of cotton and linen utensils and to promote British-made fail-cloth, raised funds by Exchequer loan, and prohibited distillers from distilling spirits or low wines. The West India security bill went to the Lords, and a Quebec government bill faced a long second reading with debate and division. Lord North opened a Ways and Means committee, proposing duties on rums, brandies, molasses, syrups, and wine licenses, with specifics to be implemented after hearings.
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Quebec
Lord North
Thomas Mills
West India Islands
North America
Crown
Great Britain
Sugar Islands
Basingstoke Races Plate Plans At Crown Inn and maidens
Basingstoke Hants June 14 1774 plans for horse races at Basingstoke with four mile heats to start at one pm and entries due May 16. Fees include entrance costs clerkships and two guineas toward next year’s plates. Races to be governed by stewarded rules and prizes to the second best horse. Weatherly the steward announces venues including Crown Inn Maidenhead Fen and White Hall Werting with social events and an effort to prevent disputes by final stewards’ decisions.
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Aylesbury
Hayden Hill
St. Rato
Sol
Mr. Lee
Bridgenorth
Morfe
Salop
George Whit Nore
Lord Pigot
Runnig
Charlton Leighton
William Owen, Esq
Basingstoke
Hants
Batingdoke Downs
Y &c
Crown Inn
Maidenhead Fen
Town Hall
White Hall
Henry Penton
Joan Folden
Conway Races Meeting Set With Multiple Races at Carnarvonshire
Conway Races in Carnarvonshire to feature seven by five and six year old and aged horses in four mile heats with bets and weights listed. A sweepstakes for four year olds and mares is scheduled with two mile heats and a three heat format. Further particulars to follow, with Watkin Williams and Tho Asherton Smith as stewards.
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Conway
Carnarvonshire
Asgott
Cocking. &c
Bridgewater
J.lv
George Inn
Tutland
Eacin
James Bernard
Weatherry
Tetbury Course
Tae Wei
Fetbury
Thimas Etcourt
Waite Hart
White Lion
Ure White Hart
White Hart
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Suffolk
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Kelly
Oporto
Cowes
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John
Blake
Waterford
New England
Rockingham Stacey
Bilboa
Sally
Haynes
Betty
Polly
Johnson
Cordis
Leeward Islands
Dolphin
Abrahams
Madeira
London
John Roebuck
William Andrew Stirling
Carolina
Georgia
Cape Finisterre
Duke of Orleans
Duke de Nivernois
le Conte de Muy
War Department
L’ Abbe de Bretueil
le Conte de Maurepas
Marine Department
Privy Council
Berne
Basil
Pais de Vaud
Lake of Newschatel
Geneva
Alsace
Franche Compté
le Pais de
United Cantons
Lord Sandwich
Portsmouth
Stranraer
Whitehaven
Henry Jefferson
Matter
New York
Hounslow
Maidenhead
Bristol Mail
Henry Waters
Hatheld
Herts
Mason
Maryle Bone
John Wilson
Chelsea
Radnor
North End
John Richardson
Hambleton
Surry
Thomas Chandler
Eig
Mile End Green
Solloway
Leadenhall Market
London Bridge
Cocking
George Grenville
John Seare
HOUSE
Cease Watkin Williams
Tho. Asheton Smith, Esq
Bodmin
Cornwall
Ca Bodmin Down
Sir John Molesworth, Bart
Hupphry Mackworth Praed
Efa
Devon
George Hunt
James Laroche
Bath
John Rashleigh
John Stagkhouss
Rcandam
J. Fr. Ne« Veal
Dauphin
J. Bew
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