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Riot trial for two footmen at Hicks's Hall reported
The article notes the trial of Staples and Riley for a March riot at Drury Lane Playhouse. After a seven-hour hearing, the jury found them guilty. they were ordered to six months hard labour. It also covers counterfeit sixpences, a Wallingford MP attack, church trespass inquiries, consular fraud, and international dispatches from Paris and Vienna detailing tensions and diplomacy with Spain, France, and Prussia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hicks’s Hall
Staples
Riley
Drury-Lang Playhouse
Charles
George
Williams Hucks
Ely
Wallingford
Turpin
Epping Forest
Hucks
Cheshunt Church
Hertfordshire
Col. de Veil
la Fontaine
Carnie
Wapping
House of Correction
Tothill-fields
Paris
France
Lorrain
Verdun
Mezieres
Sedan
Nancy
Prussia
Constantinople
Porte
Seraglio
Musfelmans
Vienna
Hungary
Petersbourg
Czarina
Baron Dahlman
Christendom
Holy See
Spain