Dublin Stage Actress Affected by Family Rift and Fame
An 18th century narrative traces a actress linked to a colonel’s status, her mother’s interference, and a Dublin return that fractured a family. The woman travels to France, gains admirers on stage in Haymarket, and becomes the Commander’s kept figure amid rivals and critics.
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Dublin
Lat
Prije
France
Aristophanes
Ireland
Haymarket
Hay Imarket
Cesar
Theatrical Intelligence and Theatre Gossip
The Haymarket crowd jammed the Theatre for a benefit performance of the Tobacconist with many seats filled beyond capacity. A theatre couple faces divorce at Doctors Commons. Mrs Pinto, famed violinist singer, is hired for Edinburgh Theatre Royal next winter to direct musical performances. Mr Lowcon, touring Dublin with Mr and Mrs Barry, may join Covent Garden to fill roles after Mr Gibson’s death.
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Haymarket
Welton
Doctors Commons
Pinto
Messrs
D.yees
Bland
Theatre Royal
Edinburgh
Lowcon
Barry
Dublin
Wil
Gibson
Covent-garden
Essay on the Death of a Lipertine Poemia Fix Cantis
A fragmentary verse piece by Francis Bacon Lee laments a fallen libertine. It contrasts riot and dissipation with supposed virtue, notes a pallid face and feigned passions, and imagines judgment before a court where virtue and mercy may prevail. The speaker calls for repentance before death and forgiveness by eternal mercy.
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Lipertine
Francis Bacon Lee
Ali Bey's Egyptian campaign threatens Damascus and Aleppo
Melancholy dispatch from Syria reports Ali Bey declaring himself ruler of Egypt and Deliverer of the Promised Land. Bathans of Damascus and Aleppo mobilized against him. Damascus endured a bloody assault with 5200 dead as mosques were desecrated and plunder spread. Ali Bey’s 60,000-strong army, armed with artillery, advances. Aleppo fears fall to his forces. Petersbourg: General Tcherbatof stormed Arab after a June 78 assault followed by plunder.
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Holland
Flanders
Syria
Ali Bey
Soudan
Egypt
Promised Land
Mecca
Muffalmen
Damascus
Tripoli
Aleppo
Kilis
d'Urta
Petersoourg
Tcherbatof
Arab
Turreted Tartars and Prussian Demands Reported Abroad
Disjointed dispatches recount massacres including 300 dead with a commanding Aga among them and 400 Turks slain during flight. Losses listed 12 killed and 43 wounded, plus captures of cannon and baggage. Other reports note Prussian contributions pressuring Thorn, unrest in Poland, and Verney banishment. Corroborating lines from Ancona, Rome, and Edinburgh mention Corsican conquest costs and a vast fortune of the late Count of Montealegro.
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Kuflof
Dantzick
Fuly
Thorn
Prussia
Koningsberg
Poland
Elbing
Lifoon
Rome
Mr. d'Almada
Tuscany
Verney
Ancona
Corsica
Paoli
Fenice
Montealegro
Royal tour plans and London entertainment events noted
London reports outline a planned tour by the Duke of Gloucester visiting Lifvon Gibraltar Minorca Leghorn and Genoa with fortifications surveys. Spanish ambassador hosted nobility and ministers at Great Ormond Street. court attendance disputed rumors of his departure.
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London
Duke of Gloucester
Lifvon
Gibraltar
Minorca
Leghorn
Genoa
Great Ormond-street
Ireland
France
Spain
Wes Indies
Texel
Mediterranean
West Indies
Majorca
Laf
Berlin
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S. W
Calcutt
Boston
Mercury
St. Vincent's
His Majesty
India
Cowes
Fanny
Middlemas
Lisbon
Milford
Levit
South Carolina
Bristol
Nautilus
Barfort
Effinear
Baker
Bremen
Southampton
Alletta
Kerestat
Fredrickflat
Polygon Watch
Osborn
Havre-de-Grace
Maryland
Polly
Kelly
Pitt
Lilly
Newfoundland
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Elizabeth
Babb
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John
Worth
Tingworth
Friendship
Marsham
Plymouth
King George
Brown
Narva
Palmouth
George
Maria
Brad
Riga
Hamburgh
Barclay
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Grdinance
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Wigton
Mansion House
Shakespear
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Cripplegate Without
Farmer
Banner
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Falkland
Eland
Romney
Kent
Holden
Thomas Bateman Lane
Dover
Hampden
Braithwaite
Walliam Augustus Fawkener
Duke of Cumberland
Foot-Guards
William Palmer
Deptford
Portsmouth
Pomeroy
Barnet
Sol
Richard Churchill Davie, Cooper
Lyme- Regis
Dorset
Sarah Hellier
Yester
Bow-street
Martin
Birch
Brooks
Andrew Chadwicke
Sir Andrew Chadwicke
Asd Lafter
Alexander Scott
Chadwicke
Vauxhall
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William Stevens
Kemble
Wilts
Hyde Park
Copenhagen House
Carolina
England
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Middlesex Hospital
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Maria Walker
James Reed
Stockland
Frances Newiman
Bath
Northaw
Hertford
Edward Howard
Hatfield
Amey Wackett
Wackett
Joseph Vaughan
Billericay
Essex
Mary Viall
Norton-falgate
Greenwich
John Wetton
Collier
Chertsey -Abbey
Surry
Bradshaw
John Bradshaw
Harrow On
Ilenry Forrow
Southfleet
Abraham Reed
Commission of the Peace
Mir
Purrow
Stoke-Newington
Corr
Albe
Blackrie
J. Wilkie
St. Pauls
Arch-Yard
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