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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 25, 1788
Page
4
The text details royal hunting around Hindustan with lions, including enclosure and bait setups, trap pits, bow arrows, and staged chase by elephants and mounted hunts. It describes immobilizing tactics, the use of glutinous straw, and gatherings of buffaloes and hunters, ending with plans to continue.
Report covers alleged Friday duel between Mr Meenamara and Mr Hervey Afton and a planned confrontation involving Mr Macnamara and Captain Williamson. Macnamara evades Bow Street, is later brought to Bow Street. both parties bound over to keep the peace. Includes Dublin letter on church prayers for King George III’s illness and the death of Peer Ganfield, Esq, creating a bank vacancy.
A Tuesday revival of King Henry the Eighth at the Drury Lane theatre draws a crowded house. Praised are Mrs. Siddons as Queen Catherine and Mr. Kemble as manager with commentary on stage discipline and public expectations.
On Saturday last a Court Martial was held on board the Edgar at Portswouth to try John Wilkie of the Phaeton for drunkenness contempt neglect of duty and disobedience of orders as charged by George Dawson Esq.
Under Spanish Court patronage, DD Ruiz D Pabou and D Galvez conclude provincial researches in Spanish America and return with 2000 plums added to their catalogue. The collection includes Afrius Siccas coloured drawings and living plant specimens in fine preservation.
An odd waistcoat from the Palais Royal depicts an Archbishop in violet robes being driven by a common priest. The scene shows an edict, papers labeled bankruptcies and embezzlements, and a whip entangling the Archbishop.
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