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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 22, 1796
Page
1
An advertisement praises a Derbyshire academy run by Mr J Taylor near Chesterfield. It details fees for board and education including Greek Latin and French, navigation and arithmetic with a claim of healthful conditions and good prospects for pupils 13 years or older pay an extra quarter.
London notices announce the sale of lottery tickets by Hornsby and Co at Cornhill opposite the Royal Exchange. The Irish Scheme is claimed to surpass earlier lotteries with prizes arranged for purchasers and prize money paid on demand.
On July 1 price 6d publishes Price vs. 6d No XIII of the Medical and Chirurgical Review Containing accounts of Sphantae in various languages on Medicine and Surgery This number includes Title Page Preface and Index to Volume 2 with a catalogue of new books and progress view Printed for the Editors and sold by Boosey Mudie Gilbert and others Separate numbers or volumes available half bound price to.
The issue reports Major-General Chakga’s appointment as Commander in Chief on the Coast with praise for the army’s discipline and conduct under prior leadership. It notes officers Carsby and Purius heading to New South Wales to recruit for European battalions. Dispatches from the East confirm a Chinese insurrection near Batavia, plus Bombay reports of a Mangalore visit by Lewis Parcueex and a Mopla, signaling Tirppoo Sutan’s push to open Mangalore and build a two frigate fleet to protect Mysore trade.
A Paris dispatch describes a modern convent behind a forest grove, housing twenty eight women including a prioress and two novices. A patriot buyer promises protection and secure conduct, enabling the nuns to stay in peace, with the speaker noting the act as a charitable, society-friendly gesture despite tumult.
A vivid account of La Vendee brigands whose tactics rely on surprise, local terrain, and relentless fire. They attack in crescent formations led by expert marksmen, disperse through hedges and lanes, and press without orders. Conventional cavalry and battalion drills fail against their swift, elusive assaults.
The text describes the Texel fortress and its narrow passage into the Zuyder Sea, noting heavy ships cannot pass and the Dutch fleet recently used the route to reach the Atlantic via the Shetland Isles. It then shifts to election satire, recounting a 16 or 17 year old Lord Grimston’s 18th century play Love in a Hollow Tree, burnt copies, later reprinted 3000 times, and a Shrewsbury election history excerpt. Also mentions the Brewhouse sale and a 73 year old worker Dentures jokes about teeth, with references to Burgesses voting rights and parliamentary committee findings.
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