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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 29, 1792
Page
4
A debate on arming terms revealed differing views on public duty and policy. Members argued over whether disarming could have yielded similar terms, while a division at two o'clock sent Whitbread's motion to a 244 to 16 vote.
Report covers Mr Plomer defending Hastings and attacking the Managers in the impeachment trial. He argues justified measures against French war threats saved possessions and left no French flag in the East. Court sat two to six, adjourned to April 17. Burke remained throughout.
In Parliament this day a ballot for a committee to examine the Cirencester election petition features Robert Preston against Richard Mutter with John Apsley also named. The House attends committees on the American Intercourse Bill, the Green land Fishery Acts, candle duty, national income, and private bills. The queen sent messages for a drawing room, but none occurred. several ladies expected presentation faced absence. A court at the India House adjourns to Tuesday. dispatches for St Helena and other places close. Rochester plans a petition against the Slave Trade as reports of the queen of Portugal circulate with motives alleged. Parliament awaits possible prorogation as Hastings’s trial extends beyond the present session.
Dispatches from Paris report rising unrest and warnings of imminent war. A Vaudeville incident saw an open knife thrown from the boxes, sabres drawn, and crowds trampling women in mud as republicans accuse the Queen and ministers of hiring actors to rail against the Constitution. The interior minister protests, while Jacobins claim the National Assembly is now subordinate to them and the Constitution is finished.
The assembly heard that a new drama at Theatre de Kandeville provoked a serious riot the night before. M Le Riviere urged a law to purge the drama. Deputies discussed indemnities to German princes and soldiers at Agen mutinied. The War Minister reports orders to deploy regulars and guards to quell the mutiny while officers offered to resign.
A member portrays subordination issues within the 49th Regiment and alleges soldiers’ complaints merit attention. Thuriot supports sending the matter to the Military Committee. Luckner speaks at the bar with a speech praising France as his heart outpaces his tongue.
Mail from Holland and Flanders brings little news. Berlin reports the Duke of Brunswick may take a special command but purpose unclear. A storm causes German losses. a mail from Vienna perished. Jamaica mail aboard the Sandwich arrives after forty two days. Dublin posts a Lord Lieutenant proclamation offering gold for Napper Tandy. Lectures on Mr Richardson’s Comedy spark debate if it is fugitive. Guildhall witnesses perjury trial end by indictment flaw. Stock market openings and closings noted for Bank, India annuities, Long annuities, and Four percent bonds.
In regimental orders from yesterday patrols begin Saturday evening to arrest all negroes found in fronts or noisy in houses after nine thirty. Interruption in diversions is banned. Insolent or riotous behavior results in lodging in the workhouse and trial next morning. Kingston December 24. On Saturday last a small earthquake shock struck town between ten and eleven. Also January 4 a severe quake occurred about five in the afternoon felt town and vicinity. January 11 colours of Kingston Regiment lodged at Lieut. Colonel Cockburn’s quarters as martial law expired.
February dispatches report civil war between white inhabitants and Mulattoes in Port au Prince Leogan and St Marc with brutal vengeance and fires. Foreboding that no quarter will escape the general misfortune as upper lands burn and decimate cane fields.
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Port town dispatches report Jupiter and Ann arrivals from Jamaica and Seville with other vessels, followed by fires in London Kennington road workshop and Broughton dye works near Manchester. The mansion house row blaze consumed a carpenter shop with tools and timber, while the Broughton fire razed the printing works and dye houses, though nearby structures were saved.
The patentee of the Violet Soap warns that Windsor Soap is replacing the genuine article and will restrict sales to the Patent Violet Soap Office at 102 Bank Buildings Cornhill London. He urges orders only from that source to avoid counterfeits and notes a fourteen year patent grant. He cites dangers of imposition and highlights the soap’s skin benefits and winter protection.
Fragmentary OCR shows numerous personal names, places, dates, and financial terms. Entries include names like Arxivais Martha and Williams from Newry, various references to bonds, annuities, and percentages, plus scattered numbers and phrases, with unclear context and structure.
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