26 Dec 1791
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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 26, 1791
Page
1
George Travis, Chairman, by order of R Shuttleworth, December 16, 1791, announces an enlarged subscription for a proposed branch from Todmorden to Coln neighborhood. The total rises from 200,000 to 350,000. Books reopen January 19 at eleven o'clock morning at Mr Marriott's Roe Buck in Rochdale.
London 1791 report from a COMMITTEE of the SOCIETY for EFFECTING the ABOLITION of the SLAVE TRADE presents their accounts and calls for further support. It notes expenditures since the last report and urges friends of the cause to persevere in this effort across Britain.
The piece critiques reforms in education arguing against novelty and stressing early discipline, parental authority, and selective use of sacred texts. It questions Latin grammar timing, favors age appropriate study, and weighs public versus private schooling while noting practical aims for youth education.
A commentator argues that small seminaries, with six to sixteen pupils, better foster ambition, discipline, and virtuous conduct than large public schools. The piece condemns using education for social climbing, stressing noble ideals, self-improvement, and rational student character over servile reliance on status. It suggests private, smaller settings allow closer tutor guidance and reduce negative peer influence.
Samuel Neville faced a common nuisance charge over melting kitchen-stuff into tallow and grease in Lamb Street Spitalfields. Witnesses testified of foul odors and health concerns, while defense argued no excess. Lord Kenyon cited usage and public good. Jury returned Not Guilty.
The King v B Neville concerns the brother of the prior defendant, who moved into Gun-street four years ago and allegedly intensified a nuisance by melting kitchen-stuff. Counsel debated coalitions of stinks and administration of stinks, while Lord Kexyen urged the jury to decide if the defendant’s arrival increased the nuisance enough to form a likely case of puis sance. The jury returned Not Guilty.
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