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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 09, 1791
Page
2
Yesterday in London scenes from the king's levee at St James's, a council at Whitehall, and a Lord Mayor's Day procession. reports of Covent Garden Theatre reconstruction, India House directors, naval commands, and talk of stagecoach safety reforms.
The Lord Mayor and sheriffs hosted a grand dinner after five with abundant seasonal delicacies. Ministers of state attended in smaller numbers than usual, while rank included Pirr, the Exop-Coancellor, the Duke of Leros and Lord Dorchester among others. Guests retired to the ballroom before eight, toasts honored the Queen and Royal Family, and the dress of the Lady Mayoress drew Courtlike admiration. The Duke of Leeps stayed late as Aldermen Le Mesurier and Skinner presided, with AmIax attempting to spark a party but soon fading. Refreshments followed in the new Court of Common Pleas.
France in Paris reports tumult and court rumors as pro tempore ministers shift, with Nominal successors for Foreign Affairs debated. A counter revolutionary club grows, volunteers clash with chaffeurs at Versailles, yielding deaths and injuries. Monarchs react coolly or contemptuously to the King’s acceptance of the Constitution.
The English Ambassador relays reports of revolted negroes wrecking plantations near the Cape, 30,000 refuges in Cape Town, Jamaica delivering ammunition and 5,000 muskets. M d Orleans faces heavy debts. A central Bureau of Commerce is created in Paris. French tensions with Algiers grow as demands for war funds rise. The August Diet debates punitive action against pirates and ministerial reshuffles unfold amid church resignations in Flanders and St Omer.
A fragment discusses contradictory reports on emigrant designs before the National Assembly, mentions the Princess de Lamballe’s return and the Queen’s palace apartments, fears bread prices will rise, and notes London coal and wood costs, with Paris experiencing intense cold and duty exemptions affecting prices.
The crowd demands ministers and administrators be awakened and calls for the removal of tyrants as the Toulou sian Army irons toward the front. Havre merchants warn of Saint Domingue’s ruin as insurrection spreads. debate shifts to the civic oath and a proposed Bastille monument.
November 4 decree orders funeral decree printed. News of Bourbon troops mutiny over pay leads to pay accounts, 974,090,000 livres national property sales total. War Minister considers National Guard battalions for internal defense. Four frigates and eleven vessels ordered to protect Levant trade if needed. Avignon massacre reports confirmed. Abbe Malot accused of instigation. Mot to be heard. Mudot whereabouts to be informed. Minister asserts Abbe on way to Paris. Mot to be heard within 15 days. Avignon affairs referred to executive powers.
Deputation from the Academy of Painting complains of new calumnies against the body. AJ Claviere urges restoring credit by funding debts from old government while denying unfunded claims without proof. Proposes stopping payments until claims are examined, with timelines for residents, colonists, and distant locals. Recommends new five livre emission and notes letters from M. de Afmimorin and Jamaica’s governor regarding St Domingo disturbances. Resolved thanks to governor and to the English nation.
November 6 reports vast gatherings of armed men in Maine and Loire under the guise of pilgrimages. Churches shut by the Legislature are opened by axes. All departments urge the Augurt Diet to act against the conspiracy, and the Committee of Legislation is to report on methods to curb religious conspiracies.
Nov 7 report describes felons trying to break out by breaching a cell wall and igniting a broom in a chimney. The fire spread to stairs but was quickly controlled by staff and debtors, who extinguished it. If it had broken out at night, prisoners would have faced deadly smoke.
On Wednesday a 29 mile walking match at Hampton Wick pitted Cotterel the famed walker against a horse owned by Mr. Ryzey. The man led by seven miles but the horse overtook by mile 13 and finished in three hours forty one minutes after the man quit at mile 14. A future wager proposes 22 miles in four hours or 29 miles in three and a half.
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