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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 31, 1792
Page
4
A fragmented verse critique of revolutionary France describing transforming virtue to vice and Liberty driven violence. It warns against insurrection, mourning lost grace, condemns rebel actions, and foresees ruin and treachery spreading from Paris to the nation.
Friday afternoon notes a Duke set for Lisoon for his health and reports the aging French queen Maria Antoinette Ta completes 37 years. It mentions Count d Ariots possibly wintering in England, a French Saint’s Day revival, and a Constantinople fire destroying thousands of buildings. Also cited are Genoa port arrivals, imperial trading ventures, Denmark dress debates, Edinburgh theatre plans, and Lisle reports of military movements near Tournay with 40,000 troops and captured prisoners.
In Vienna the Archduke Palatine proposed numbering the Palatinates and drafting 1000 volunteers from each of 72 districts to form a 72000 strong national army under a single general. Turks near Belgrade enlarge their camps while awaiting a firman. Mutinous groups return to Semlin after quarantine. Quarantine rules differ for passengers and goods.
The article traces Russia's military growth from 40,000 disobedient Streltsy under early rulers to Peter the Great’s reforms, which created a disciplined European style army. It notes ongoing improvements and a later force size of about 375,450 men as a benchmark of expansion.
The article notes a total Regular Army of 33,595 with about 35,000 militia tied to provinces and never serving abroad. It states Spain sends nearly half the infantry overseas, where service is destructive and many regiments shrink to ten men once they leave the land, a fate for most Europeans.
On Wednesday Lahey and Capt. Gaprard arrived in the Downs from Faro with new fruit. The crop is reported much greater than last year, with several ships loading and set to sail early November. The Swallow revenue cutter seized a large smuggling cutter at Fyal, after a mutinous crew and ironed sailors. The Rattle-mnakeshop remains the only King's ship at Spithead. A gentleman was robbed in Stepney-fields by two footpads of a silver watch and two guineas. In Broad St. Giles's Mr Wallace was attacked by rioters, losing a gold watch and five guineas.
The Northern Counties report a tedious harvest with new wheats abundant in London markets yet coarse. Prices fall due to government interference on exports. beans rise as do fine barleys from scarcity. Wheat measures may standardize to the regal Winchester bushel before 1793. Clover fields thrive. turnips improve. easterly winds damaged some crops. Pork remains high. morton and veal decline. beef and prime stock valued at 33.6d per stone.
The Vice Chancellor and Electors declared the Greek Professorship vacant after the resignation of Rev William Cooks. Mr Porson of Trinity College was elected Greek Professor following his probationary dissertation reading. The electors include senior Trinity Fellows and college masters with university officials voting in the appointment.
The report blends ecclesiastical events with farcical anecdotes and unusual marriages. It notes Rev Cuartres Johnson’s induction at Berrow, praises Toxophobe meetings, cites Prof Maxacame’s brain theory, and recalls Barnsley canal fundraising. It also recounts two marriages with strikingly aged spouses and a grandfather’s lament on modern manners.
Begins drawing the tath of November 1792 for Tickets and Shares of isch steen at Wenham's Office and at Wiel fan's Market Place Norwich. Describes price list, correspondence terms, and warns that policies and chalices dealings incur state penalties. Spitspury cites Royal Letters Patent for Antiscorbutic Drops with new bottle marks sold at Soho Square London and general vendors across Britain and Ireland.
Ship news lists arrivals and sailings across ports including Portsmouth Plymouth and Hull. Vessels named include Tartar Three Brothers Duke of Portland Hope Good Intent and others with origins from Havre de Grace Weymouth Plymouth and Lisbon. Also notes marriages in Ireland and Scotland with local officials and noble titles.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention an 81 year old Mrs Markland at an Aldermanbury house and Mrs Herne described as a Maiden Lady. Other lines reference individuals Buckingham and Benjamin, with scattered fragments about a Thursday and Wednesday event, and a late person named Ye camous.
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