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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 25, 1793
Page
4
A speaker argues for expelling nobles and exiling foreigners tied to Emigrants, labeling nobles as enemies of equality and spies. He urges restraining clergy while urging civility, warning against measures that fuel anti religious sentiment. calls for vigilance over priests rather than exclusion.
A Dec 19 dispatch from Paris details Percier’s letter to the Lyons Commune urging broad reprinting to spread revolutionary zeal. It chronicles terror in Lyons with executions by the new committees, dispersal of residents, and mass shootings and guillotines on dates in early December, noting large confiscations and the collapse of the city’s old order.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a national convention and a public decree. Names and details are garbled, but indicate a formal foreign affairs committee and adherence to a royal or public order. Unable to confirm full context or individuals due to damaged text.
In Paris around the Convention, the Fx Minister Gara urged Municipalities to appoint execution agents while the War Minister selected his own. The Council denied tyrannical aims, insisting it acts from the people and would punish agents who overstepped orders. Several offenders were already seized and reported to the Committee of General Safety.
An exhausted heir to a fallen royal house laments his solitude and cruel reversal of fortune. He mourns absent parents, the murder of his father, and the peril surrounding his life while dreaming of peace and sleep. He pleads for mercy and time to endure his bleak fate.
FRIDAY MORNING reports His Royal Highness the Duke of York visiting Mons to confer with the Prince of Condé, while Ronespierre acts as temporary moderator of the French Republic and enforces Convention decrees. The piece reflects on clashes between the Commons and the Convention, Danton and Roots- Pierre’s fortunes, and religious suppression by French revolutionaries. It also notes possible succession in Portsmouth and a traveler’s account praising spring crops across several English counties.
A garbled notice from Cirencester reports unverified claims of buried bodies at a church site. Officials caution that the readable fragments cannot confirm any death or burial details.
Theatre notes describe a pantomime rehearsal at Haymarket titled Harlequin Peasants for a Pantomime. The cast includes Caulfield and Banson as Saith and Frbnjn, with the piece praised for neatly worked gags though some lines seem reused. The piece aims for gentle amusement over the holidays.
The institution marks a milestone with a grand dinner honoring the Arts and the Royal Patron. The President and academical body will march in procession next Tuesday to present an address to His Majesty. Medals will be struck and distributed to members in honor of the Arts and the Royal Academy.
The University announces chancellors prizes for the year with subjects in Latin Verses and Lyudi Scenici. Entries must be sent sealed by May 24 by students under seven years from matriculation for the first subject and seven years for the second. Names must be concealed, with motto on the outer and inner covers. Rehearsal precedes final reading during the Commemoration Day.
A Stoke by Nayland resident is committed for trial on the inquest into the murder of two year old John Sage by throat cutting with a grisor. The infant died after the attack as the grandmother confessed to her husband. Earlier a Redgrave girl cut her mother's throat but did not sever the windpipe. The girl is said to be an idiot.
Last evening at eleven o'clock Mr Hart who runs the Ship Inn on the Parade was shot as he crossed his path by a villain stationed at the fore door. The ball passed through the top of his hat and grazed his skull but he survives. The assailant fled and remains at large as magistrates take active measures to capture the culprit.
In Bath on December 25 the Rev Charnes Jusss BD of Trinity College Oxford is presented by that society to the endowed vicerage of Hulfarrance in this parish. A plan is under way in this city to prevent as much as possible unlawful acts by timely and friendly interference to rescue those distressed by the pressures of the times.
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