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Newspaper
Courier
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 25, 1815
Page
2
The notice lists showings at Bate Royal Haymarket with titles The Provoked Wusband and A Chip of the Old Block and mentions stock prices including 3 per cent Consols and Te Diteo for Accoutt with various rates. The fragmentary text references performances and financial quotes from Omnium 738 Br.
The Paris dispatches describe King Louis’s tempered mercy in pardoning or punishing rebels, recall Colonel Lapenovey’s execution after a plea denial, and note army disbanding and guard deployments. They also mention forged State Papers blamed on Buonapartists aiming to inflame insurrection across France.
Editor of the Courier prints a critical response to a Morning Chronicle paragraph on the 8 August 1815 act. The writer argues the act taxes to makers of sweets or made wine for sale, clarifying that only those with intent to sell are liable, not households for personal consumption. The piece cites 59 Geo.3, ch.177, sec.4 and mentions prize boating news and genealogical notes on Marshal Bauclay and other London society items.
A garbled Portsmouth intelligence notices ships arriving and sailing including Victor and Ulysses, Sophia, Tyriqn, and Danish vessels. Several ships are paid off or being re-commissioned, with Corsairs and seahorse ready for sea and other craft returning to port or undergoing quarantine. Damen.
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