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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 26, 1792
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss a Taw 3 title and a seer held in relation to duties of the Attorney-General. The scarce text hints at an office acting in a capacity similar to the Attorney-General’s, with implied tensions or debates about authority.
A fragmentary portrait depicts M Marat as the most desperate and unprincipled incendiary. It notes years in Finland and Oxford teaching French to about 4 928% pupils, portrays him as a zealot whose influence fuels upheaval and whose newspaper collaboration worries authorities.
The piece portrays Roberspierre as bred to be a butcher yet calm in guiding crowds. It praises his talent for leadership, animated eloquence, and aggressive gesticulation, claiming he has steered federates with superior control compared to Luckner or Dumourier amid unrest.
A long letter from Jamaica received via the Tankerville Packet warns that the present constitutional framework must endure. It argues against revolutionary ideas, praises monarchy, and criticizes French politics, while noting Irish Catholics seek elective franchises and speculates on emigration if reforms proceed. It also mentions the Regent's Diamond, refugee French workers, and thirty eight Navigation Bills pending in Parliament.
A naval of conjecture on France's state notes Brunswick forces passing Clermont, Dumourier retreating to Chalons, and Paris possibly starved by river and supply blockades. It cites Royalist pockets, discontent, and a budding refugee influx as the expected leverage for a southern confederation against the Convention.
The text notes abundant harvest grain of excellent quality and recalls an 1589 tactic to incite insurrection in Paris. It hopes the current unrest in the city, once kept safe by a sagacious populace, will avoid a repeat of past slaughter and reach a fatal conclusion without shedding more of its own inhabitants.
Yesterday evening the Royal Family attended a card party at Gloucester Lodge with Lords and Ladies, Miss Diery, Sir William Gordon, and others. This morning the King bathed, walked the Esplanade, joined by several officers, and at ten went aboard the Faro, which sailed to Portland Roads.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived yesterday evening and dined at Mrs Fitzherbert in Marlborough-row. This morning Sir Henry Crintox met with the Prince of Wales at the Pavilion in a lengthy conference.
The Theatrical Mania has reached Scotland with the bonny Duchess entertaining friends. The Opera of No Son No Supper is in rehearsal with a cast including the Duke of Gordon and several Gordons, Sinclairs, and related nobles. The program closes with God Save the King and a grand audience chorus. A duet by Lord Alexander and Lady Georgiana Gordon is planned in role.
The Duchess of Devonshire and Lady Dun will spend winter at Pia while the Duke stays at Chatsworth with friends. Lord Palmerston travels abroad seeking health, with Lady P and the four children. Reports of political intrigue mix with shipping updates and local crime notes across a Britain of merchants, ships, and robberies.
A letter from Antigua dated August 18 reports unusually fine weather since a early month gale, improving canes and verdant Nourment Belfast and Popeshead, losses of Woodyear noted, and upcoming troop changes. It notes transfer of 66th to St Vincent and 67th to Gibraltar, potential governor shifts, military staff reform on December 4, and a new Brigadier General command structure with Barbadoes HQ.
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