Paris Crisis Speech Urges Unity to Defend Republic
The speaker urges unity to revive public opinion and confidence in the Republic, warning against royalist excess and civil war. He calls for maintaining constitutional order, reveals military movements toward Thoulouse, Amiens, and Paris, and notes arrests and denouncements of Directory members.
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Rity
Robertot
Rastadt
House of Austria
Council of Elders
Thoulouse
French vessels in the Mediterranean on Barbary corsair plan
The French have equipped several ships in the Mediterranean modeled after Barbary corsairs. They carry heavy guns and some sail with 130 oars, enabling rapid movement during calms common in those seas.
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Mediterranean
Ois
Swiss Protest Leads France to Curtail Local Commandants
A translated Swiss letter from Aug 5 reports General Maffena issued orders to stop commandants in western Helvetia from interfering with police. The French Commander in Chief Udinot assures Swiss respect and goodwill, aiming to ease objections and demonstrate good faith toward the Helvetic nation and its government.
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Maffena
Executive Directe
Helvettc Republic
Lentzbourg
Helvetia
Oudinot
Clarifications on Loss of the Resistance and Mysore Campaign
Readers correct figures for the loss of the Resistance from 44 guns to about 30 marines and 250 seamen. Old Indian confederates who aided against Tippoo Sultann renew assurances to cooperate in the Mysore campaign. Nizam forms vast troop columns to join Madras and Bombay forces. Lieut. Goldsworthy named Commissary of grain and bullocks at Madras Presidency.
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India
Tippoo Sultann
Mysore
Seringapatam
Nizam
Madras
Bombay
Goldsworthy
Presidency of Madras
Touffaint Louverture letters support independence claims
A 1799 Paris letter from Toussaint Louverture to Citizen Capef, written from Cape François, rejects rumors of independence aims as calumny. He praises Capef for delivering the mission, endorses the Republic’s defender, and urges renewed trade and virtue for his children.
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Touffaint
Republic
Toussaint Louverture
Paris
Siussaint Louverture
Ireland News From Dublin and Counties in 1790s Turbulence
Dublin reports happy calm after the lord lieutenant's tour with garrisons praised for discipline. A Duff order summons troops in Limerick and Cork yeomen on duty. Will of Earl of Charlemont leaves Marino estate to Lady Charlemont for life with strict library injunction. A tax collector is murdered in Tipperary. trials and executions follow in Wexford and Wicklow. A Gardener assault case in Anglefea Street details yeoman sentiments. A Gowran district policeman dies in a shootout with Cornelius Dumphy, noted as a tragic loss for his family.
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Dublin
Eldom
James Duff, Bart
Limerick
Patrick Beck
Forristal
James
Wexford
William Byrne
Ballymanus
Wicklow
Leonard M‘nally
Francis Hetherington
Gardner
Evan
Anglefea Street
Anglefea
College Green
Ireland
Daly
Lawless
M*nally
Hind
Raverser
West
Clarendon Street
Evans
M‘nally
Terford
Cornelius Dumphy
Daniel Wills
Ms. Dyer
Gowran
Firey
Domphy Tellen
Wills
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Championet
Ccemen
Moreau
Verdier
Amiens
Citza Grouvelle
Copenhagen
Capith Cabinet
Denmark
Norway
Switzerland
East Indies
West Indies
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