Patriot Martyrs Memorial Debated Amid Revolutionary Turmoil
A heated session recounts executions and patriotic displays as factions push for public monuments and aid for families. Reports from Nantes and Lege describe royalist rebels driven back by Mayence forces, with detailed siege and casualty notes. The Department of Hainault orders citizens to rise, while Toulouse protests a decree. Scrolls note grain-laden ships bound for Pitt and Cobourg and a push for an observation army.
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Havre
Nantz
Bourdeaux
Marseilles
Pitt
Cobourg
Executive Council
Decree on Commerce and Navigation Acts 1794 Reach France
The decree mandates treaties of commerce be respected as written, after January 1794 no vessel is French unless built in France or its colonies, English goods to colonies must use French ships, foreign ships barred from moving merchandise between French ports, duties to be reformed, and the decree to be published nationwide. Barrere’s report will be printed and translated for neutral Powers.
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Republic
Levee at St James's and Royal Movements reported
Morning Post notes public levee at St James's to be the only public day this week His Majesty holds it tomorrow The Prince of Wales returns from Windsor and departs for Brighton A Admiralty board houses two ships of the line into commission A Sardinian Envoy meets the Secretary of State at Whitehall Lords Grenville and Cotswold travel Lady Mexhour hosts a dinner at Whitehall Duke Devonshire recovering from illness Lord Huny Conway sails from the Admiralty to join Lord Heon at Toulon
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Mexrourn
Duchess of Devonshire
Ordnance Office
Palace-yard
Lord Cotsuitt
Earl Dicsy
Duke of Devonshire
Hucy Conway
Admiralty Office
Lord Heon
Toulon
Turbulent Paris News From September 1793 Dispatches
Extracts describe martial crisis in the city with arrests executions and peasant revolts. Details of Touton operations near Toulon include 6000 French army troops, English ambushes, and burning of Ollioules. Letters from General Caro and Garrau discuss prisoner treatment and threats. Mention of Eure Loire convoy to Paris and Strasbourg unrest.
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Citizen Delbecq
British Note Demands French Exits From Grand Duke Lands
Florence reports a British ministerial note demanding the expulsion of the French minister from Tuscany and the cessation of French influence. It orders punishment for French supporters, ceasing commercial ties, and threatens strict measures if Tuscany refuses, as the British fleet plans to winter near Leghorn and Spezia.
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Spezia
Tuscany
Allied Powers and French War Prospects in Early 1790s Dispatch
A London observer relays rumors from Boulogne and Dover about Allied and French actions. The piece cautions that despite external support, France faces a harsh winter campaign and internal strife, with calls for discipline and concern over brutality by Austrian forces.
French siege of Toulon and British relief
Continental Intelligence reports General Cartau with 40 000 troops besieging Marseilles and Toulon yielding to British protection. A later clash sees Republicans surprised and routed by the English with four cannon lost and many prisoners. Six thousand Neapolitan troops are nearing Toulon.
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Marseilles
Toulon
From the Upper Rhine Deserters Report on Weissenbourg Lines
Deserters claim imperial forces could have repelled a preemptive attack near Weiffembourg if the Convention decree on reinforcing the army had not been executed. They say 20 opposition units would have met the assault if timed earlier.
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Weiffembourg
French Army Attacks Allied Forces on Alsace Front
Reports from Frankfort indicate a French force of about 150000 attacked the Allied Armies on the Alsace front. Austrian forces retreated after heavy losses on the 12th, while the French were repulsed on the 18th at General KatReuth. On the 14th they were defeated near Permafen at the Lake of Brunswick, losing cannons and thousands of prisoners. Widespread shortages of provisions are alleged among German forces along the Rhine.
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Kat- Reuth
Brunswick
Permafem
Th Rhine
Riot in Twer Led to Death Sentence Change
Reports from Petersburgh describe a riot at Twer on the 16th of last month instigated by a Russian priest who preached Jacobin sermons. His adherents were dispersed by the military, the priest tried and condemned to die but the penalty was commuted to life imprisonment by Her Imperial Majesty. A secretary bound for Smyrna arrived at Constantinople with 200 chests of valuable effects.
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Smyrna
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