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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 13, 1792
Page
3
A chaotic comic farce staged at the Great Humstic Theatre in Paris on Saturday the 5th shows the National Assembly debating tyranny and virtue. Characters yearn for unity while the Devil counsels loyalty, ending with mutual embraces and a dramatic political satire.
The snippet notes prices for Bank Stock India Stock 3 per Cent Consols and two months exchange on London. It also mentions a deteriorating health relapse of a prominent figure and concerns about virulence, with figures 206 2052 2roLa2it 95 36 3.43 36 2 30.4 35.
On July 9 10 the Assembly heard a fiery speech denouncing the King and Ministers. Brifer urged declaring the country in danger and replacing the Committee system with seven deputies. Jacobins pressed for punishment of opponents while security measures and a court of inquisition were proposed. Endorsed by the crowd in the galleries.
Friday night the shop of Mr Fowler a pawn broker in Spittlefields was broken into and robbed of watches and other articles valued at upwards of 2001.
A fragment from a racing page lists horses, owners, and odds for a July meeting. It includes entries from Vernon, Bedford, York, Foley, Standish, Panton, and others with horses aged two to six, weights and draws, plus scratch notes and post positions. The text references Sweepstakes and course events with notes on winners and betting odds, though the full details are garbled.
Ipswich lists His Majesty's Plate for four-year-olds with heats and odds on Heetor Quetlavaca. Wednesday features Fifty Pounds for all ages with Lee Boo as favourite. Thursday offers two mile heats for three to six-year-olds with Tickler Fairy Playfellow and Ruth among top contenders.
Early Friday morning a Leeds Mail coach stopped at Chapel Town between Wakefield and Sheffield. The coachman and guard left the horses unattended, the horses bolted, a female passenger fell and broke her leg in the chaos. She was bruised and confined to bed at the Angel Inn.
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