Forces breach Valenciennes siege as British troops report defeat
General Crarryart’s forces attack Angeaint Heights near Valenciennes and force the enemy to abandon a long-fortified position, leaving Valenciennes and Condé exposed. Casualties are light on the Allied side, with heavier losses attributed to Clairfait’s troops and the enemy. Major Abercromby reports the killed and wounded for the Second Brigade and notes Hanoverian and British command under Walmoden.
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Jong
Valenciennes
Condé
Scheldt
Clairfait
Atizain
Caavfurn
JA. Murray
Henry Dunas
Abercromby
Trial of Warren Hastings in Parliament Intelligence
The Lords reconvened after eleven to finish the Opium and Bullock Contracts review. Mr Plumer and Mr Darras exposed garbled evidence and defended officials. Auriol’s Agency for Carnatic provisioning was praised for famine relief. Mr Burke’s cross examination ran long. adjournment set with defence to close and pending judgment.
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Warren Hastings
Mr. Prumer
Mr. Hastings
James Erskine
India
Plumer
Marquis Cornwallis
Duff
Mr. Darras
Mr. Auriol
Carnatit
Auriol
Pitt
Burke
Eyre Coote
Bell
Davuas
Hastings
Lords
Lord Stanwarer
Lord Stanxoreé
East India Bill Read First in Lords as Hastings Trial Looms
The House of Lords finished the Orders of the Day and sent a message to the Commons. They informed that the next day they would proceed to the trial of Mr Hastings.
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Commons
Mr. Hastings
Trial of Warren Hastings News Beneficiary Debate
The Lords informed the House they would proceed with the Warren Hastings trial the next day. The Irish Trade Bill was read a second time and ordered to be read a third. In Stockbridge election business Sir Richard Hixx raised objections, arguing the report on extending franchise rights to Stockbridge hundreds violated law and morality.
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Warren Hastings
Stockbridge
Richard Hixx
Stockbridge Borough Bill Sparks Heated Debate
A heated debate over a suffrage bill for the Stockbridge borough ends with a 42 to 33 division, Majority against the Bill. Speakers allege the measure would punish individuals and deprive property, while others defend it as extending rights and addressing corruption findings.
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Stockbridge
Hye
Poland
Elampshire
Everett
Select Committee
Wetsore
House
Buxton
Barnam
GengRrat
George Hardince
Crisklade
Migurtes of Business COMMONS Second Reading Delays
Commons debates on Seantens Bill and Bewick divorce measures proceed with committee scrutiny of Irish Trade Bill patentees Newfoundland justice and Irish forfeited estates while Lords amendments on Salford Roads and Turnpike Bill are noted along with slave trade and West Indies possessions trials.
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Bewick
Frove
West Indies
Warren Hastings
Lords
Salford Roads
Newfoundland
War talk and political misgivings in London and Marseilles
London reports quote Santerre’s alleged rhetoric urging French land in Britain to sway the war debate, while Marseilles trials reveal the defences of cr devants Conti and Ecausle. Ireland faces militia and tithes disputes as Chaplains in India are blocked. A child’s razor accident at Glenow warns parents to keep dangerous tools away from youngsters.
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Santerre
Cr-Devant
Prince de Conti
M. Ecausle
Marseilles
Ireland
Wraserforce
India
House of Commons
Witterforce
The King versus Frost at the Court of King's Bench
Yesterday before Lord Kenyon and a packed jury the trial of John Frost for uttering seditious words at the Piercy Coffee-house in Piercy-street on November 6 1792 opened. The Attorney General argued the words aimed to undermine the government and urged the jury to weigh intent as the law demands while Frost pleaded that words reflect free discussion and should not convict without deliberate malice.
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Lord Kenyon
Apedal
Common Pleas
Westminster Hall
Woop
Piercy
Piercy-street
Lis
France
Forster
Frost
Tate
Beffies
Mr. Savignac
Mr. Yeataian
Mr. Bullock
Mr. Frott
Sone Company
Mr. Yeatman
Yeatman
Mr. Frost
Witner
Ser
Jeant Runnington
Eatman
Equality
Mat. Yearman
Joux Butrocr
Defodant
John Frost
Hieself
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House OF Lords
Klouse
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London
Lawshpee
Sueripan
Cratis
Dundas
Mixes
Glenow
East Peckham
Court OF King's Bench
King
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