War era rumors and Greek delegation seek peace talks abroad
The Vondon Courier cites hopes for an amicable settlement as Vienna reports inching toward peace. Couriers shuttle between major capitals and a Vienna summer congress is rumored with Russia Austria Prussia Britain to attend. Greek delegates plan to seek independence negotiations through the United States and European courts, aboard the American frigate Caroline, though no such ship exists in the U.S. Navy.
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Vondon
Vienna
Alexander
Morning Chronicle
St. Petersburg
Paris
Berlin
London
Russia
Ausetria
Prussia
G. Britain
Peloponesus
United States
Archipelago
Europe
Greece
Trieste
Caroline
Paris crackdowns stir new unrest across France
Paris reports to March 27 show French funds drop two percent amid interior disturbances and arms found hidden for an attack on public authorities. Crowds fill Place de Vendome shouting Napoleon the second as Bourbon factions and Jesuit opponents clash, while general unrest spreads to the provinces. Fourteen officers arrested at Rochelle for conspiracy. press liberty law passes peers and faces royal approval. Piedmontese in Paris under false names under scrutiny.
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France
Paris
Place de Vendome
Bonaparte
Napoleon
Benton
Elba
Rochelle
Chamber of Peers
Poland Conspiracy Report Stirs Public Mind Across Europe
A story reports a Poland based conspiracy to incite insurrection linked to Russia and the Turkish empire. Several distinguished figures allegedly arrested, with Poland said to have broad European connections. The piece notes widespread talk of plots and a volatile public mood. More details are expected in coming months.
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Poland
Russia
Europe
Rumored Paris Distiller Plans London Brandy Venture
The text notes a prominent Paris distillery principal considering establishing in London to distill brandy from potatoes. Despite high duties in France driving production away, the process yielded brandy as fine as grape-based varieties. It mentions Lucien Bonaparte’s March 11 Frankfurt to Brussels journey for his son’s marriage, and that English King’s June Hanover visit via Paris is reported in continental papers.
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Paris
London
France
Lucien Bonaparte
Frankfurt
Brussels
Joseph Bonaparte
England
Hanover
Turkish fleet lands 12,000 at Patras as Ali Pacha is slain
Advices from Corfu report 76 Turkish ships at Patras with 12,000 landed troops. Ali Pacha is decapitated by Charschid Pacha and his head sent to Constantinople. Turkish forces total about 46,000 moving toward Morea, threatening Greek positions. Greek land movements are uncertain.
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London
Corfu
Patras
Ali Pacha
Charschid Pacha
Joanina
Constantinople
Churscid Picha
Morea
Salonica
Cassandra
Mount Athos
London News From Capu Champtin Shipping List
London evening papers and a shipping list dated the 1st inst show no major news. Reports from Trieste mention 10,000 Ottoman troops at Patras and a Greek Turkish fleet engagement with 25 transports captured. Ireland unrest grows as Cork and Tralee assize calendars rise. a warship is sent to the Shannon to transport convicts.
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London
Capu Champtin
James Monroe
Trieste
Otoman Peet
Patras
Ireland
Cork
Tralee
Shannon
Arrests of 25 officers in Rochelle spark plot fears
London reports from Paris via the Nantes Journal that 25 officers of various ranks were arrested at Rochelle over a plot. No details on extent or aims are given. In Parliament, budget articles discussed led to sharp exchanges as deputies clashed. General Girard praised Marshal St Cyr and criticized ministers for recalling imperial veterans as a reserve army.
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London
Thoreday
Paris
Nantes Journal
Rochelle
Chamber of Deputies
Girard
Marshal St. Cyr
Name of Joseph Williams sought. historical apprenticeship note
Information requested about Joseph Williams born in Chesterfield township Burlington NJ. Apprenticed to Charles Cook at Crosswick. Left with a mother and brother. father Nicholas Williams shot by Lewis Pisseder after the Revolutionary War. Believed to be with Jacob Cook in Northumberland County. If living, contact his brother on the island opposite Bristol PA.
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Joseph Williams
Chesterfield Township
Burlington County
New Jersey
Charles Cook
Crosswick
Nicholas Williams
Lewis Pisseder
Jacob Cook
Northumberland County
Bristol
Pennsylvania
Farewell to Drivel and Slander by a Danville Writer
A Danville correspondent declares an eternal farewell to a minister of religion for publishing a vile letter. The writer denounces religious slander against Catholics, condemns the author as illiterate and vulgar, and vows not to notice further abuse in the paper.
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Sim
Shepard
Lycoming
Laborers Wanted for Kanawha River Navigation Work
Two to three hundred laborers sought to improve navigation on the Kanawha river in Virginia. Twelve dollars a month, wages paid promptly. Further details via Conrad Kelly and Co at 60 Market Street Philadelphia or John Bosher, Coalsmith, Va. Five hundred more needed on the New York canal section through Cayuga marshes. Wages from 12 to 13 dollars monthly.
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Kanhawa River
Virginia
Messrs
Conrad Kelly
Traffic on London Bridge in October 1320
The account records foot passengers 16180, coaches 871, gigs and taxed carts 520, waggons 587, carts and drays 2576, and horses 472. A weird note mentions a calf with unusual anatomy found in New Hampshire.
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Traih
London
London Bridge
Delinquent Subscriber Hint and Native Eloquence Echo
A note from Sebeck Osborn, late proprietor of the Wilmington Watchman, offers receipts at his counting room. An article on farming suggests replanting cabbage shoots from old stumps for early, vigorous future crops. An excerpt of a Choctaw chief’s speech rebukes warlike stubbornness and invokes a mythic lightning vision.
War talk and fortunes in old Philadelphia almanac tale
A Philadelphia man, once a fluent, who earned by selling almanacs and blackball, inherits a West Indies relative’s estate valued at about $400,000 after years of hardship. The verse opens with battle imagery about the president and blood, then shifts to fortunes and mutations of fortune.
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Philadelphis
West Indies
Extraordinary Pedestrian Feats at Boston and London
James Bigmore of Boston England ran fifty miles in seven hours and twenty six minutes with forty minutes for refreshments. He also ran from London to Norwich beside a stage coach in fourteen hours. A Albany Advertiser calculation projects US population rising to about 937 million by 2000 under a fourfold ten year growth, yielding a total far beyond today’s world population.
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James Bigmore
Boston
England
London
Norwich
Albany
United States
Salt Water Discovery In Illin Sparks Salt Industry
Salt water found in Illin in great abundance, with an estimate that fifty gallons yield one bushel. Preparations aim to build extensive works, existing plants sell at fifty cents per bushel, a stark contrast to the prior price of $125 per bushel.
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Illin Noisy
English East India Company Growth and Power
The English East India Company began with a capital of 72,000 pounds sterling and two centuries later grew to 21,000,000. It claims ownership of 380,000 square miles, 80,000,000 inhabitants, 150,000 soldiers, and an annual income of 17,000,000. The text notes this as a prodigious power for an incorporated body and suggests it influenced English opposition to Russia’s actions against Turkey and access to trade routes to India.
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English East India Company
England
Russia
Turkey
Lodia
Plough Boy Endorses Spring Harrowing Of Wheat
An article notes spring harrowing loosens soil around roots to boost wheat yields. An experiment says harrowing one acre yielded about a fourth more wheat than an adjoining acre.
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Plough Boy
Sale of Handkerchief Prints From Dying Philadelphia Firm
The Rose and Centinel advertise samples from the Barretts Tileston Co printing shop as superior in color and pattern to any Atlantic silk handkerchiefs. The governor names William Duane editor of the Aurora and Joseph Watson lumber merchant as Philadelphia aldermen.
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Messrs. Barretts, Tileston & Co
William Duane
The
Aurora
Joseph Watson
Philadelphia
Gaz
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Danville
George Sweney
Danville Watchman
Carliste
Wature
David Clark
Ringe, N. H
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