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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 17, 1791
Page
2
The Lord Mayor hosts an elegant gathering and the Lady Mayoress plans a ball and supper. News notes London royalty departures, naval salutes, parliamentary finance proposals, and social intrigue from Portsmouth to Devon. Rumors of the Cambridge Mail robbery probe and a busy gossip front covered with politics, finance, and society.
Madrid reports the Krye of the French accepting the new Constitution and a Prussian note to emigrants alarm ministers. Aiming to unite Europe against France, a confederacy may form with Portugal. The treasury faces deficit. economy steps taken, including personnel cuts. Borrowing considered. Bank of St Charles lent 20 million rials, not enough for costly plans.
Stockholm reports confidence that Louis XVI cannot be reestablished by force and that allied powers will seek settlement through negotiations. The Empress of Russia will also send a plenipotentiary to the congress in Aix-la-Chapelle to be held soon.
The Swiss Cantons agree to join troops with other powers to oppose the French Princes after Barle and Zurich balked but were pressured to sign. About 1500 French emigrants arrived recently. Ambassadors and nobility travel between Berlin Prague Vienna as rulers tour Bohemia.
The Countess Dowager of Erriwcham, sister to Aldermain Beckrom and aunt to MPs for Hin don and Leominster, dies last week as Earl of Errinsham governs Jamaica. Mr Spittarp, famed pedestrian traveler, reaches Charlestown en route to North America to meet Lord FrizerraLto and explore the Mississippi. A truce between Morocco and Ceuta signals possible peace with Spain amid domestic fears. At Redruth fair a deadly accident kills a seventeen-year-old rider and injures another rider, with doubtful recovery.
In Paris a society of wretches is accused of poisoning liquor in public houses to rob patrons, while another group sets fires to plunder homes near Chateau Thierry. European responses note Louis XVI's acceptance of the French Constitution, with England and the Dutch States-General signaling approval and a renewed alliance with France. The Protestant church in Paris held a solemn thanksgiving with Catholics and Protestants praising the constitution. Madame de Lamsace arrives as the Queen warns the First Lady of Honour to return or lose her post.
The National Assembly, chaired by M. Ducastre, faced impassioned exchanges over a hostile deputation and the War Minister's conduct. Speakers demanded accountability, debated military officer shortages, and pressed for timely reports. A 30,000-strong veteran delegation urged action while clashes over procedure ended the session with appeals for education and relief funds after major fires in multiple departments.
A dated letter to the Assembly from the Apartment of the North voices harsh complaints about increasing deferment or delay. The missive highlights frustration with stalled decisions and calls for decisive action to address mounting obstructions.
The Paris Guards found a gold handed inscription on Ve la Fayette declaring Liberty’s third year and Parisian Army ties. They resolved to recommend his eminent services to the National Assembly and appoint sixty Commissioners, one per battalion, to prepare a response to the General’s letter.
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