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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 14, 1791
Page
3
Fragmentary Soviet era style report notes France facing civil strife and a sovereign mob in a bleak mood. Faris new mayor cites subsistence and police as key public concerns with daily grain sales and rice stocks mentioned, while warning of a harsh police climate amid broader upheaval.
The National Assembly debated foreign society relations, printed English Whig resolves, and sent thanks to the Whig Society. It approved measures on Saint Domingue, including a decree to bar national taxes from other services, and affirmed collaboration between Whites and Mulattoes to quell rebel Negroes, while ministers debated duties and ambassadorial inquiries.
Dec 7 report notes denunciations from Citizens of Saintes and Finisterre against ministers and the Assembly. Martinico deputation qualified the colonial Assembly amid fears of restoring old government ties to England. A letter from Louis names Narbonne to the War Department replacing Duportail. The Assembly approved its reply to the English Constitutional Whigs and pledged a solemn alliance between English and French Liberty.
On December 8 the Day’s Order covered finances with a decree to issue 100,600,000 livres in twenty five livre assignats and 100,000,000 in ten livre notes once paper supply permits. Tax collection shortfall since May 1789 totals 909,090,009 livres. A letter from Rend of Terwan notes St Domingo seeks to treat with the American Congress as a sovereign power via M. Poulan.
Workmen digging foundations near Wildernerow behind Cuarter-house Gardens uncover several human skulls and skeleton remains. It is claimed that 60,000 persons were buried on this site during earlier plagues, a fact not widely known.
Reports describe royal hunting at Windsor Great Park and a grand dinner at Carlton House for MPs. Dispatches to St Helena and Madras close, a fraud case at Birmingham and jewel recovery at Madame du Barres, while Potemkin's death stirs factions in Petersburg. Portugal moves with Spanish influence amid French Revolution tensions.
The Frénch Princes scheme to mint coins here at par in great and mal tournoys values, 12, 6, 3 livres and 30 sols, alloyed and undervalued. One million affignats will fund army equipment in France. A Royalist Knighthood, Order of Favras, and a gold cross with inscriptions are proposed. Lifeguards head to Tournay. nobles promise French nobles will unite by January.
A man living alone by a mountain near Paisley Scotland for about fifty years tends a hut he built. Although illiterate, he serves neighbors with botanical remedies for wounds and ailments and acts as shoemaker tailor and studmaker. He farms and gathers herbs, doubles local grain, and offers calm philosophical observations on nature.
On Wednesday last the eldest son of Mrs G Priddie of Lincoln College was attempting to reach wild fowl on ice near Oxford when his gun exploded as he struck the ice with the fowling piece. He died on the way home. Also, a carpenter in Whitechapel Road was killed when a falling frame dragged him by a nail. Other items note large butter exports from Ireland to Liverpool, a perilous voyage of the Fly from London via Selby, a Coventry whipping for domestic desertion, a Worcester fair with cattle and sheep selling well, and frost-bound ships at Ramsgate with Canterbury’s Stour river frozen.
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