07 Oct 1796
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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 07, 1796
Page
1
A garbled OCR fragment references names and political topics with unclear meaning. It mentions care duties, payments, and possible civic or cultural terms but provides no clear events, dates, places, or outcomes. The readable portion remains fragmentary and non-specific.
Debretts Parliament ary Register promotes No 1 issue for the present session detailing contents, pricing, and subscription notes. It promises extensive lists of Lords, Commons, Scotland peers, and counties, with projected issues and comparisons to other parliamentary reports.
An officer recounts a Malabar theater at a Rajah’s marriage, with six hundred Nair women present. Actors from a nearby region offered a dramatic show praised as excellent, featuring varied characters, Braminm influence, and tales including a god and two wives, amid country music and revelry.
The dated September 19 1796 letter from Louis XVIII thanks Abbey Simons for escaping danger and preserves in him a faithful minister admired by a brother and mourned by Frenchmen. It urges publication of holy ministry texts to honor the king and a brother, expressing esteem and gratitude.
On Sept 27 the Council of Five Hundred considered conspirators threats to public order. Bailleul urged rapid repression and a new Commission of five to revise laws on seditious assemblies. Reports from Sept 29 highlighted army supply shortages and gendarmerie distress. Oct 1 discussed civil code debate and duty to set plan, while Oct 2 named commissioners to review mandats of the Directory.
The account describes Parisian fashion amid a lively Opera crowd, noting the crowd’s joy, luxury, and mourning in contrast to revolutionary fears. It highlights D- Artt’s black lace mantle, a Clorinda helmet-shaped hat, and fashion’s grip on society during turmoil.
Rome reports a courier from Baris bearing word that the Directory, via a luminary treaty article, aims to suppress clergy presses. Cardinals Borgia and Levize are sidelined from convoked congregations as Azarra travels to Florence to mediate between the French and papal commissioners.
The text outlines Saxony as a strong German state with two million people and 30 million livres revenue, 25 000 troops in peace and 45 000 in war, and a debt of 64 020 000 livres. It highlights mines, bark trade, woollen cloth, and Leipzig fairs as key wealth sources, the Elbe city of Drefaati, and a rich cabinet. It notes limited sovereign power, Lutheran populace, and proximity to Prussia and Austria. Politically, Saxony leans toward Prussia and risks from Austria, with Archduchess Christiana and Russian influence shaping alliances.
A man named George Bayly, before the magistrate at Drury Lane, was charged with pocket picking and found with four handkerchiefs, all bearing different marks. A female sailor, posing as a shipmate, was brought to the bar on fraud suspicions after lodging in a Broad Street house and being found with a borrowed coat. She claimed she traveled from America to England to reunite with a sweetheart aboard Britannia, served as a sailor, was captured by the French at Toulon, and only recently returned to receive wages. She gave the name Elizabeth Taylors but sailed under George Taylor. Mr. Ford advised her to change attire and consider writing to Lord Spencer for mercy.
Disjointed report from a fair at Braintree and sales at Waterford Northants notes price ranges from five guineas to 41 15s per cwt. Mention of a French privateer Phoenix of Bristol and a robbery at Ingleworth Hall with banknotes, horse, and gold watch valued at sale.
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