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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 18, 1793
Page
4
The message affirms loyalty to the sovereign and calls officers to ensure proper respect during religious processions. It orders troops to carry arms and directs sentinels on duty to prevent impropriety, while emphasizing unity in devotion and allegiance despite religious differences.
A crowded Covent Garden Theatre celebrates a new Harlequin Doctor Faustus pantomime with elaborate scenery and female performers in the lower boxes. Critics praise the design, performances, and orchestration while noting the show’s continued popularity and the audience’s enthusiastic response despite changes in staging and cast.
A proscribed Lyons resident who escaped to Switzerland shares a concise account of the horrors in Lyons under the Republic. The letter, received by a known contact, argues for extirpating the villains responsible for cruelty and devastation in the country.
A despatch from Lausanne details the Lyons executions with 70 guillotined on the 6th and many more daily, naming condemned priests and lay officials. It describes theft, arrests, mass demolitions of quays and Bellecour, forced labor, and widespread terror as revolutionary troops purge opponents while residents flee to Switzerland.
The Jamaica coast reports a severe storm or hurricane on October 26. Ships and small craft were wrecked, four ships including the Palliser were destroyed, many lives lost, and the Smiths Wharf facilities suffered total ruin with nearby wharfs heavily damaged.
LUCBA reports very bad weather has destroyed all ships at Montego Bay with wreckage ashore. Some canes and provisions damaged lightly, but hoped not to affect crops materially.
A Cork arrival reports a sudden gust capsizing a boat in Cork harbour. Three officers drowned, a fourth struggled, and a sailor on a plank offered a lifeline, uttering a brave remark before aiding the man to land.
A Bahal report notes the Duchess of Yore possibly ordered there by her physicians while Lady Cu Estarield may arrive soon. Sir Robert Mackworth and wife arrived in splendor with twelve servants. Two soldiers awoke hearing a shot and fled to the watch house. A deserter was found this morning at Stall-freer. Bryngwyn mansion in Montgomeryshire burned recently. A workman near Sidney-pice uncovered a large stone sepulchral altar buried four feet underground.
A tale recounts Mr Cenverri known as Wofey in theatre circles. During a performance a potato hit him in the nose from the upper gallery. He chased the culprit, seized him, and gave a hearty beating. Years later a convict forgave him on the way to lyburn, declaring peace with all mankind.
Yesterday the term of imprisonment expired for Mr Irosy and he was released from Newgate to his Spring Gardens home. A Jar Zonelle pear tree in Baldrysth Fifethire garden bears blossoms and young pears, with last year’s tree blossoming at Christmas. Fruit is abundant. apples are large, some 12 inches round and 15 ounces. A nearby field yields a 28 lb turnip three feet in circumference. Also note the Edinburgh Conventionalists, if not halted, might have become as troublesome as Ireland’s Whiteboys.
In 1779 Woolwich a group of drunken sailors aboard the Robuste man of war forced entry to a church yard tomb room. They ate bread and cheese, toasted with beer, opened a coffin, and one man suffocated while being carried to rest with the dead. Constable relays the incident as fact.
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