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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 05, 1797
Page
4
A theatre observer notes Miss Farren delivers Lady Teazle with fashion while Mrs Jordan brings greater naturalness. He argues Miss Farren suits the elegant Lady Teazle, yet Mrs Jordan’s portrayal shows awkward rusticity shaped by her education and circle prior to marriage.
The Amateurs stage a lavish night welcoming Mrs Abington back to the stage as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. Lewis as Benedick and Clarke as Don Pedro receive strong praise. Colman’s address honors Abington’s return, and the curtain rises amid rapturous applause.
Postscript reports Paris journals on the Bourbon Directory strengthening plenipotentiaries, exile alignments, and talks at Adina with no restart of hostilities ordered. Armies Rhine Morelle and Sambre Meuse unite under Angereau as Army of Germany. News of Genoa counter revolution, Alderney letter on French invasion plans, and British naval movements near Spithead. King of Spain’s marriage pact, Danish plague measures, Barbados sugar cane prospects, and public notices on legal actions and charities.
The Executive Directory orders Treisiard and Bonniere to negotiate with Lord Malmesbury and test his full powers to restore territories to France and its Allies. If answers are denied or delayed, Malmesbury must depart within 24 hours. Banished deputies depart Rochfort. Buonaparte’s latest terms push Mantua and Verona region to Austria under a river boundary, per Annales Politiques.
The French fleet, returning from Toulon, sails to Corfu and appears before our port with several thousand men landed. The force is said to be stronger than when it departed, having attacked Venetian ships at Corfu and elsewhere.
Dispatches from Tunis report plague raging, killing over 500 Moors in days. An attack on a Danish Consul interpreter marks expanding conflict. Tripolian corsairs declare war on Sweden through three Swedish ship captures.
Dresden dispatch notes the Emperor of Russia intends to employ all the Corps of Conde, comprising natural born French or Swiss troops, and to allot them land along the Sea of Azof.
Milan reports a government shake up as Clergy and Nobility lose public offices and a Democrat insurrection follows with French troops aiding. Meanwhile a French ship captures vessels near Scarborough and a Turkish envoy plans a Dublin visit as beef and mutton prices fall due to rising cattle exports.
A gentleman, age unclear, lured two sisters into a scandalous affair aided by prominence at a shop on Newarda street. The elder daughter conspired with the younger. their mother is dead, and the father fears worse consequences as the seducer, once connected to the East India Company, fled after the crime.
Thursday reports two peti matches on Croydog Road and Sunbury Common sides won by Mr Tier and Mr fleas respectively. Lincolnshire reports disease in sheep amid wet weather causing potential spring mutton shortage. Mrs Batterfley of Hindley near Wigan dies after brief illness.
The daily market report shows wheat prices remaining nearly the same as Monday. Boiling peas, ship malt, barley, oats, and tick beans are all quoted cheaper, signaling slight declines in several grain and legume categories.
MARRIED. Peter Handley of Clifford’s Inn to Mrs Dyer of Ongar Essex. Richard Liopd of Birmingham to Miss Harman of Stoke Newington. DIED. Charles Anguith youngest brother of Grace the Duchess of Leeds died at the Cape of Good Hope. Mrs Kitvington wife of Mr Kivington mother of Rev Edward Kivington of Orlingbury Northamptonshire died in 56th year.
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