Polish Insurgents Rally Amid News From Europe
General Buonaparte writes to Count Potocki urging Polish Diet acts, while Poles abroad assemble in Paris and Italy. In Galicia and Transylvania insurgents gather on the Crapachean mountains, numbering six to seven thousand, organized into hundreds, spreading vengeance against Austrian usurpers.
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Baccaparte
Potocki
Ambalfa‘dt
Poland
Constantinople
Matthals
Milan
Paris
Italy
French Republic
Gallicia
Transylvania
Austria
Crapachean
French council debate on elections and peace with France
In the French Council of Five Hundred on the 26th alt Ginot de Pontaillier notes multiple communes in Cote d Or failed to execute the decree annulling elections. He reports that so called Deputies from St. Domingo are England bound and only came to France to seek a seat. The Committee to report is urged to act swiftly. The piece also discusses the prospects of peace, criticizing the French Directory, warning no lasting treaty with France can exist while its government remains unstable or military in origin. It predicts foreseen European unity against France and notes rapid changes in French administration and military command, with several generals displaced or reassigned.
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Ginot de Pontaillier
Cote D’or
St. Domingo
Cherbourg
Leborgne
England
France
Vaublanc
Lisle
Europe
Royalisoa
Corneille
Racine
Crebillon
Voltaire
Sahuguet
Bernadotte
Piles
Barthelemi
Pichegra
Guidna
Buonaparte
Adina
Hoche
Moreau
Widespread Jamaica Earthquakes Shake Island
A long series of earthquakes began on February 5 with intervals under a week and over a hundred shocks in 24 hours at times. Felt across Antigua and Martinique, most quakes hit near Mount Misery with east to west motion and underground thunder. Some shocks rise straight up like a mine explosion while others jerk houses along stony ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antigua
Martinique
Mount Misery
Grand Panto to Exceed Covent Garden, New Comedy in November
Mr Harris plans a lavish pantomime under Mr Cross, aiming for Covent Garden scale. Mr Cumberland unveils False Impressions in November after a Green Room read. Quick previews Lovegold in Bristol to draw crowds. Braham and Storace perform in Paris. A stag hunted on Ascot Heath was drowned near Virginia Water, causing a long hunt disruption. Floods sweep Sussex and Coventry areas with severe rainfall, forcing evacuations and disrupting transport and timber delivery.
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Harris
Cross
Covent Garden Theatre
Cumberland
Govent
Garden Theatre
Quick
Bristol
Lovegold
Braham
Storace
Paris
Theatre de la Republique
Ascot Heath
Virginia Water
Sunning-Hill
Sunni
King’s Beech
Thorpe
Johnson
Shipley
West Grinfled
Sussex
West Grinsted
Woolven
Bine’s Bridge
Steyning
Horsham
Brighton
Multiple captures and arrivals mark early 18th century Atlantic sailings
A string of naval actions and ship movements reported include the Hopewell Younghusband captured by a privateer and retaken by the Maté, with two boys aboard, arriving at Portimoutt. The privateer sent to Appledore. The View Margaretta condemned at St Croix with much cargo damaged. Other ships mentioned: Neptune, London Packet, Antigua, Elder Stroman taken to Jersey, Isabella parts convoy, Carls Pieter ashore near Eastbourne, LIntrepid and Chaffeur destroyed by British frigate, Triumph driven aground, Peggy sinks, and several Jamaica and Newfoundland bound vessels arriving at Liverpool and Falmouth. A broad picture of ongoing privateering, captures, and maritime movements near Europe and the Caribbean.
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Hopewell
Younghusband
London
St. Domingo
Portimoutt
Appledore
Margaretta
Campbell
Martinico
St. Croix
Neptune
London Packet
Simey
Archangel
Portsmouth
Buchannefs
Antigua
St. Vincent’s
L’orient
Stroman
Pederson
Bayonne
St. Maloes
Jersey
Isabella
Jamaica
Glasgow
Peterson
Stockholm
Waterford
Eastbourn
L’intrepid
Chaffeur Ditte
North Bergen
Naze
Norway
Royal fleet sails for North Seas to replace damaged ships
PORY SMOUTH October 2 The Montague a 74 gun ship and Bedford a ship of the line sail for the North Seas to replace vessels recently damaged in gales. The Telemachus captures a French privateer Jean Bart and sails to cruise Westward. The Janus and Quebec frigates lead a convoy from Jamaica and St Domingo with 39 trading ships and transports. The Peggy foundered August 31 and crew were rescued. Musgrave loses all masts in a gale but is towed to Spithead. Quebec sails to Bristol with the fleet.
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His Majesty’s
Montague
Knight
Bedford
Thomas Byard
North Seas
Telemachus
Newton
Jean Bart
Portland
Isle of Wight
Downs
Janus
Quebec
Jamaica
St. Domingo
Peggy
Musgrave
Thetis
Spithead
Eagle
Jenney
Sarah
Bristol
Leith Tender Arrives at Nore with Convoy
The Leith Tender under Lieutenant James Watson arrived at the Nore on the 22d in company with merchant ships under her convoy, all well. Those bound for Hull separated at the Spurn. The Betty of Greenock, seized in the West Indies, was retaken and carried into Antigua.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leith
James Watson
Nore
Hull
Greenock
West Indies
Antigua
Autumn at Brighamern? High Society Still Resides
The season enters its autumnal stage with many families leaving, yet several respectable households remain for healthful air and waters. His Royal Highness stays at the Pavilion in tranquil retirement. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort the Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester Lords Carrington Leslie and Camelford, Sir John Dashwood, Nichol, Rath, Warner and others are listed among the continuing residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort
Marquis and Marchioness of
Worcester
Carrington
Leslie
Camelford
John Dashwood
Nichol
Rafh
Warner
Ke. &E
Market Prices and Trade Dull at Hope Market
Canterbury September market report notes new pockets priced from .4s.153 to gligs and bags from 41.10s to 41.153. Trade is dull with little business, picking is general and to finish this week. Weather forecast hints at a wetter, more uncomfortable spell for pickers, though brief.
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Hope Market
Breach of the Peace Charged Over Hyde Park Duel Threats
Ensigns Church Cockerell and Lieutenant Binden, both under 18, and Lieutenant Bindsn faced Sir William Addington on a charge of breaching the peace by sending a pistol and sword challenge to Captain John Lyster. Lyster testified the invitation urged a five o clock Hyde Park meeting with threats to kill if refused. Bail set at 2001 with two sureties of 1001 each. A cr-devant officer, Robert Henry Church, also faced a similar charge from Lieutenant Lyster. the case followed the same pattern and was disposed of similarly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Mercer Cockerell
Paul Church
39Th Regiment of Foot
Bindsn
Famé Regiment
William Addington
John Lyster
Ensign Church
Buckingham Street
Ensign Cockerell
Hyde Park
Balfour
Binden
Lyster
Lieutenant Binden
Captain Lyster
Berger
Robert Henry Church
Chatham
Extraordinary charge before N Bonn Eq with James Landriff
A man calling himself James Landriff appeared before the magistrate on an extraordinary charge. Mrs Galloway of Seven Dials recounted how he claimed to be the wealthy James Galloway from the West Indies, sought lodging, drank, snatched two dollars, and produced papers with multiple names. The magistrate committed him for trial. A week later, parish churches in Ewelme and Dorchester, Oxfordshire, were broken into and stolen items included surplice, cloth, banner, clarionet, and communion plate.
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James Landriff
James Galloway
Crocker
Berwickshire
Scotland
Suffolk
Grenada
Ewelme
Dorchester
Oxfordshire
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Pulborough
Coventry
Chesford Bridge
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Steel
Rend. News
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Shields
Ocean
Harrington
James
Hume
Margaret
Lewias
Fame
Coughey
Ranger
Hayes
Mary
Bradie
Jane
Emerald
Palmer
Arbad
Falmouth
Sukey
Leman
Philadelphia
Industry
Anstruther
Newfoundland
Guadaloupe
Providence
Cullingham
Lowestoffe Beach
Pory Smouth
Brighi ON
Canterbury
Public Office
Bow-Street
N. Bonn
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