27 Jun 1792
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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 27, 1792
Page
1
The High Sheriff of Worcestershire announces a general county meeting called by many gentlemen to consider an address to his majesty regarding his late proclamation. The meeting was held at Worcester Guildhall on Sunday, June 3 at eleven o clock in the forenoon.
The document presents General Lafayette's public letter from the Camp at Maubeuge dated 16 June 1792 to the French National Assembly. He denounces factional threats, defends liberty and the constitutional order, and urges unity, military readiness, and loyalty to the rights of man and the sovereignty of the people, calling for lawful authority and the extinction of club politics. The letter emphasizes fidelity to liberty, the nation’s rights, and the need for disciplined support of the constitution.
A compact portrait traces Luckner from Bavarian origins through Hussar service and early merit to captaincy. His career spans Hanover, Ferdinand, and command of twenty thousand, then light troops for France. Noted for courage and honor, his private life mixed conviviality with a penchant for the fair sex.
The report details current Parisian fashion with coloured felt hats in grey or violet, ribbon bows, and a cockade. Descriptions include a white Jawan kerchief, taffeta jacket with white and violet stripes, green ribbon trimming, a green stomacher, lawn petticoat with green taffeta peicits, a green fan, and green Morocco shoes.
The description outlines a second dress with a lawn gauze cap and violet flower garland, a long richly embroidered shawl featuring green oak flowers and gold ocenns, ends showing flowers de luce and a golden eagle motif, a silk jacket with violet and yellow or violet and green stripes laced with nacarat ribbon, a lawn petticoat with green gauze furbelow, and green or violet shoes.
The verse fragment imagines a reverend’s death as a physician awaits a prescription. It questions precipitated fate and the value of patience, phrased in archaic dialogue about breath, friendship, and dread. The speaker rails against haste and ponders consequences of timely medical action.
In a King’s Bench decision, Mr. Charles Middleton petitions for a writ of mandamus to compel the Bishop of Lincoln, Visitor to Brazen-note College, to receive and determine his appeal after two rejections for a Fellowship. The Bishop’s conduct is upheld as honorable, with a second examination ordered after a year of self-improvement.
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