Quiet Nantes Riots Over Masons Sentences Stir City
Reports from Nantes describe disturbances after journeymen masons were jailed for two weeks for unlawful combination. Militias and National Guard surrounded the Palais de Justice as crowds clashed with gendarmes. Seven prisoners were led away, stones flew at soldiers, and a barricade rose in Rue Marceau. Fifteen arrests were reported, many youths among them, while the mayor urged calm. Later notices claimed tranquillity returned and work resumed, though troops remained alert.
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Nantes
Loth Inst
14Th Regiment of
National Guard
Palais de Justice
Place Bouffay
Place Royale
Rue de Calvaire
Rue Marceau
National Guards
Madrid Cabinet Report and European War Foresight
Letters from Madrid claim a cabinet completed with Calatrava Mendizabal Lopez Olozaga De la Cuadra and Rodil, though officials doubt the formation. The piece notes financial strains, army weaknesses, secret societies, and French influence concerns amid ongoing war in Spain. Dutch updates describe money-market trends and troop dispatches to Java, with royal travel details.
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Spain
Madrid
Senor Calatrava
Council and Foreign Affairs
Senor Mendizabal
Senor Lopez— Grace
Mendizabal
Europe
Mendez Viro
Cortes
Journal Des Débats
Belgium
Greece
France
Duc d’Angouleme
Don Carlos
Maprio
Senor Egen
Bertrand de Lys
Calve de Rosas
Aniceto de Alava
Carrasco
Gamindez
The
Castillon
Senor Arguelles
Senor Olivier
M. Mendizabal
Torrijos
Senor Viniegra
Calatrava
Foreign Office
Evaristo San Miguel
Lopez
Interior
Olozaga
Marine
de la Cuadra
Rodil
Arragon
Catalonia
Pedro Mendez Vigo
Russia seeks peace while expanding army under ukase
The Swabian Mercury reports that St Petersburgh dispatched notes to great powers with an August ukase announcing an extraordinary recruiting. Officials insist Emperor Nicholas desires peace and believes differences can be amicably terminated, arguing the levy is due to Russia’s vast frontier and not larger than other powers’ annual levies.
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Russia
St. Petersburgh
Nicholas
Ipuette
Coronation of the Emperor of Austria in Prague
Sunday in Prague marked a grand royal pageant with five infantry battalions three Lancer squadrons and two cuirassier units joining garrison troops and artillery before the castle. Emperor rode the line before Mass and a cathedral review followed the drawing room. Only a few English nobles attended reflecting a likely Milan coronation next year. The dinner and ball were described as sumptuous with hundreds of attendees lingering into evening.
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Austria
Emperor of Austria
Prague
Brandeis
Jerseys
Wicklows
Lord Alvanley
Milan
North America trade notes and British financial impact
The article reports interest in how Bank of England measures to curb American paper circulation may affect Britain. It notes no major New York exchange shift yet, potential gold flows if grain imports rise, and small American export activity. It mentions remittances to New York banks, grain crop failures, and unusual bills for American missionaries in India and Singapore quotes on London bills and missionary notes.
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North America
United States
Atlantic
Bank of England
New York
England
America
Vern Cr
Michigan and Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank
India
Singapore
London
Fire destroys garret and_claims a life in Aberdeen house
In Aberdeen Littlejohn street a blaze in the upper part of a house endangers the whole building. Fire engines rescue furniture as a poor woman named Wilson suffocates in bed. The garret and half the roof burn. no insurance on the property. The origin of the fire remains unknown. Bath reports bones found near Stogursey with a Willful Murder verdict uncertain identity. Bath candidates for city vacancy include Captain Scobell. A Bath man leaped from Grosvenorrow Suspension Bridge intending suicide but was rescued. Binstead notes a man’s death from an adder bite after handling venomous snakes. A Mollington death follows. Brightom describes sea wall progress and future promenade potential near Kemp Town. Carlisle notes two 100-year-olds, Martha Tindall and Solomon Osborn, in Holm Cultram vicinity.
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Aberdeen
Littlejohn-street
Aberdeen Fire and Life and Norwich Insurance Companies
Wilson
Bath
Stogursey
Bridgewater
Binding
Scobell
R. N
High Littleton
John Allen
Law Stationer
Grosvenerrow
Binstead
Shebbeare
Charles Munday
Holt Forest
Brightom
County Hospital
Kemp Town
Carlisle
Ace
Holm Cultram
Martha Tindall
Souterfield
Solomon Osborn
Cowgate
Solomon
Liverpool
Solway
Cheltenhama
Sarah Gurnett
Lord Ellenborough
John Ballinger
George Guy
Cheltenham
Druaprut
John Berrington
Berrington
Portland-square
Gregory
B.’s
Croydon
Sixcular Rossery
William Barry
Barry
Doncaster
Dorset
Thomas Clark
John Gold
Quaker Temperance Society
Dever
James Muddle
Dover
Edinburgh
Canal-street
Perth
Exeter
Lower Paul’s Street
Hull
Beverley
Burton Monkman
Jersey
Chamber of Commerce At
St. Helier’s
Eliza Brown
Barham Down
Bridewell
Medley
Powell
Lothario
Brown
Stour
Hopper
Gretna
Midderminster
Macclesfield
Anne Nicholson
Messrs, William Bayley and Brothers
Dunkinfield
Manchester
Edward Simon Arnett
Elizabeth Arnett
Isabella Arnett
Virgil Street
Mint
Mr. Harvey
Edward Arnett
Harvey
Kirkdale
Crewe
Monmouthshire
Hilstone House
Robert Browsrigg
Birmingham
Wolverhampton
Potteries
Sheffield
Lord Fitzallan
Earl of Surrey
Duke of Norfolk
Buckingham
Staffordshire
Union
Wisbeach
Fox Maule
York
Gosport
Hamstead
Thomas Parker
John Marshall
Home Secretary
Mr. Marshall
Fridaybridge
Parker
Vessels Defy Report Of Solway Power On Estuary
A Cheltenham report claims vessels move by estuary power toward Liverpool, while an elderly man calls the tale fiction. The piece sketches a scene of doubt and infirmity preventing proof on shore.
New Court Indicts Two for Robbery on London Stroll
Two men, 25 and 28, stood indicted for stealing 4 sovereigns 6 half sovereigns and a Scotch note from Robert Glass. Bodkin for Baseke and C Jones for Cummings, Greenock merchant victim testified he met them near St James's Park after an August encounter while seeking London. The pair lured him into a bowl and porter before the theft.
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Phillips
Henry Waters
James Johnson
Scotch Fusilier Guards
David Robert Barry
Rotherhithe
Ald
St. Helena
Deptford
Dennis Coleman
Johnson
Waters
Thomas Baseke
William Cummings
Robert Glass
Bodkin
Baseke
C. Jones
Cummings
Greenock
London
Minories
St. James’s Path
Newcastle
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Dred
Schroeder Devrient
King’s Theatre
Holland
Amsterdam
Java
Great Britain
Trade Society
Princes of Orange
Hague
Staats Courant
East India Service
the Hague
Albert
Prussia
Country News
Central Criminal Court
James Khene
Terbex
Richard Herbert
Hockley
Commons
Thomas Liecombe
Bow-street
Peacock
George Edward Peacock
Maule
Adolphus
Bullock
Doane
Maule Kagin
John Wilson
Wilmer Francis Ridley
Wilmer
Young
Consols
W. Addison Fountain
William Watkins
Beso
Janus Clarke
James Clarke
Stoc
Bilt
James Thurlaw
Power of Attorney Office
Addison Fountain
M. Maule
Lord Denman
New Court
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