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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 22, 1796
Page
3
A report of a performance featuring Mr Gillray as a caricature printmaker and Miss Fasnew as Olivia, with Mrs Fanren and Mrs Mertocks in supporting roles. The piece includes a plot about Monopolies, Deceit, and a staged romantic entanglement, with audience applause for certain scenes and characterizations.
A night at a grand theatre features a flying citizen who left London, visiting a town to see a grocer sheriff and a Spanish Countess with her husband. The Count, welcomed in Madrid, is named Gentlemen of the Bedchamber and Inspector General of Havannah. A Middlesex Peace Commission lists several distinguished names.
A court recounts the trial with two counts of murder allegations. Michael Blanch is found guilty of murder and sentenced to be executed. Emanuel Batha is acquitted. Sir James Mareier postpones executions to Thursday due to low water conditions but urges no expectation of pardon.
A late Tuesday report details a mail robbery near Dinham Hill Chester by two mounted men who seized the mail bag and threatened the carrier, then fled. Separate attacks on Mr Manton and Mr Wigley on Hounslow Heath involved gunfire, beating, and robbery of money and goods, with one pursuer escaping toward Hounslow. The assailants, described as short men in uniform with brash pistols, were later said to be soldiers. A surgeon treated wounds, and notices over Boyfreet and Marlborough Street were issued seeking suspects.
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