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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 09, 1791
Page
2
Excerpted remarks by E Burke on royal authority, punishment for treason, and the duties of a sovereign. The text contrasts Henry IV and Louis XVI, laments the current regime as weak, and notes the historian should record the provocations, miscalculations, and consequences of revolution in a Britain at war.
London dispatches describe a day at St James's with a royal levee for foreign ministers, a council, and later audiences for Mr. Pror and Sir George Yonge. Notable attendees included the Lord Chancellor and Duke of Montrose. The Queen and Princess Royal toured the Kent Road and Montrose hosted a grand dinner for Mr. Pitt and MPs. Paris disturbances prompted arms found in Tuilleries and remarks on liberty and French professors at the National Assembly. Police actions amid a jewel theft in London and prisons crowded with suspects are noted.
A corn wagon intended to aid Paris poor was seized and looted by National Guards amid widespread misery. Citizens complain lawlessness prevails in a governmentless France as robbers are left unpunished and unemployed adults face starvation.
The assembly considers measures to aid the poor including a five day salary loan by deputies and a proposal to divert May salaries to the treasury. Debate centers on whether such appropriation betrays liberty or merely withholds aid. After heated talk the assembly decides there is no room for deliberation.
Fragments report National troops at Dole guarding clergy, a Besancon envoy toppled and robbed of 200 Louis. Ecclésiastical Committee cuts Nantz parishes to eight. Dillon urges limits on West Indies laborers and slaves, provoking heated, factional quarrels as Pethion objects. assembly adjourns leaving him speaking to echoes.
A monk named Erasmus incurred Mahmud’s wrath after gifting a mirror to the sultan. Mahmud preferred a wife for the gift, angering his other wife who claimed treachery. Erasmus was seized and confined in a tower, a victim of court intrigue and palace motives amid a capricious sultan and jealous consorts.
The Honourable Captain Lecer is appointed to command SHARK at Spithead. Remutus and Fir’s sloop leave harbour for Spithead. The Swiftsure sails from Plymouth to the Downs. The Criton sails for the Downs. The Britannia, Weatherhead, and Matilda set sail for Botany Bay with convicts.
Reports detail East India Company tensions over troop transport contracts and extensions of the charter during the war in India. It notes captains taking command of ships, parliamentary discussions on a temporary charter, and a dispute involving Mr Macauay and the Principals. The page also covers maritime losses, shipwrecks, and weather impacts on gooseberries.
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