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Royal decrees and floods dominate London news
London reports a King’s messenger takes Colonel Despard to Shrewsbury for confinement after 17 months. War Office orders 25 fencible cavalry horses seized per regiment. Pro Consul John Barker appointed at Aleppo. Powder and arms shipments planned for Brittany royalists. Canterbury gains freedom of the city in a gold box. Floods threaten Northwich and Bedfordshire, with multiple drownings and property damage. A duel in Hamptheud leaves two officers wounded. Militia pay controversies prompt official replies. A suicide follows romantic disappointment near Fleet Market. Fencible Light Dragoons suffer crashes en route to Canterbury.
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King's
Despard
House of Correction
Bath
Shrewsbury
War-office
John Barker
Aleppo
Abbot
Portsmouth
Britanny
Lord Romney
Canterbury
Northwich
Messrs. Bancrofts
John Marshall
Wakefield
Bedfordshire
Campton
Henlow
Seline
Chicxland
Gravenhurst
Shellington, &c
Bedford
Biggleswade
Sturday
Lea
Birmingham
Duddelton
Hamptheud
Jonnstone
A. Bourke
House of Industry
Dundas
Fleet-market
Fencible Light Dragoons
Leicester
Derby
Ashbourne