15 Sep 1791
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Newspaper
Dublin Journal
Location
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Date
Sep 15, 1791
Page
1
The piece presents an English reader with an extract from a French periodical detailing Mirabeau's posthumous appraisal and a confessional catalogue attributed to the Marquis de Favras. It narrates alleged crimes and confessions spanning murder, seduction, theft, and treachery, cast as a dramatic moral indictment amid the French Revolution context.
Postscript from Dublin dated January 24 1791 announces audience hours for His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant. Sessions on Tuesdays and Saturdays from eleven until two. On Thursdays attendance limited to military business, at Lieven a clock.
The Court of Directors resolved to increase Bank of Ireland capital by 240,9001 and call upon stock proprietors to pay 40 percent on shares in four installments on September 6, December 2, March 4, and June 6. Subscribers will receive interest at the rate of 1 per cent per annum from the listed days until June 1793 when the stock becomes existing. Subscriptions and the first deposit of ten shares are to be received by the Secretary at the Bank from the 5th to the 30th September, with transfer books to be signed by order by Thomas T. Iams, Secretary.
Trustees of the Linen Manufacture offer a premium to the person producing the best specimen of oxygenated muriatic bleaching liquid judged by them. They name Mr. Ropsart Ror of Ringford as a gentleman in the liner trade to be instructed in its production and use. Applicants may apply at the Linen Office and those who wish to obtain an apparatus on the spot may do so before the first day of November.
A late 18th century letter denounces Dublin Evening Post abuse aimed at the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. It defends the office’s dignity, questions gossip about Lord Wellborough’s government, and laments provoked factional rhetoric surrounding the Belfast volunteers and a provincial review in Armagh. The writer calls for restraint and loyalty to governance.
Reports from Belfast Dublin and elsewhere describe volunteer parades, canal work, and public notices amid war talk and court moves. The Bank of Ireland deputy governor Theophilus Thompson dies, regatta events unfold on Waterford harbor, and prices for West Indian goods surge while claret vintages disappoint.
An antiquated verse excerpt contemplates Englishmen as bait for a nation’s politics, weighing rewards for loyalty and honor amid a medieval tone. The fragment references Catherine and an imagined exchange of favors within a chivalric context.
Sporting Intelligence notes Curragh racing on September 19 with Hawke partners and ranunculus bred horses in sogs races. Disturber wins the great Stakes for 140078-. Highwayean Macheath and Bellfarina contend with Cocoa and Chocolate lineage as contenders in a brisk card.
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