22 Apr 1805
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Newspaper
Morning Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 22, 1805
Page
1
A Victorian era display opens at the Lyceum featuring a panoramic painting of the Battle of Agincourt by Korter Beg, with detailed engravings and a canvas layout showing related sieges and battles. The setup promises views of storied warfare scenes and includes captions too.
The Royal Highness the Duke of Clare presents Odd Susstil with a new Panto Mime Arabian Nights and a new Harlequin and the Talking Birdy. The Aquatic Prize features a River Phames scene with London Bridge panorama and a real water rowing match. Box office at Sadler's Wells opens 4:30.
Under royal patronage the Ser inco China spectacle is extended for nine more nights. This Monday presents Crispin's Day a new pantomime with Mrs Auttey In addition George Won Seed performs with Miss Saunders in Laugh and Lay Down. Doors open five thirty, performance at six, box price five shillings, gallery pricing noted.
This Monday Arati-22 a New Occasional Address by Miss Manners, then The Marriage Day. Principal Dancers include Mr Giroux and Miss Giroux. Abellino or The Bravo's Bride features Venice intrigue with Rosabella. Harlequin Bacchus closes with new overture by Corri. Tickets via Mrs Simmons.
The General Purposes Committee will meet at the Guildhall on May 3 1895 to sell by public action a set of three silk damask window curtains with yellow lutestring, silk fringe, and gilt fixtures, plus a mahogany dome top bedstead and other furniture. Viewings start three days prior. catalogues available at the Office of Works and Mr Phillips, Auctioneer, Fenchurch Street.
A family in London seeks a man servant aged about thirty to forty, unmarried and healthy, willing, neat, diligent, honest, sober, and not afraid of work. An additional man servant is kept in the family. Applicants should send letters to A. B. at Mr Cooper's Fishmarket, Paradise Row, Chelsea. responses will follow with further details.
T BISH, contractor for the present lottery, reports tickets and shares selling fast with prices rising and the drawing to begin on the fifteenth of May. Orders may be sent from the country to Cornhill or Charing Cross for delivery.
Gentlemen with commissions can obtain every article of dress and millinery at Thomas and Co. Chancery Lane Gomer offers ready money prices. Extensive shawls and court mourning items. Apprenticeships for young ladies and a youth with premium expectations. Fleet Street location near Wemple Bar.
Invaluable boot and shoe blacking free from rotting or leather damage. It nourishes leather, softens, and increases durability, applying easily and delivering a high gloss like Japan varnish. Sold wholesale and retail by No 7 Tavistock Street Covent Garden and by boot makers, perfumers, and oilmen in the metropolis and major towns at 1s 6d per bottle.
John Davies announces a new partnership with William Hodgkinson at 84 New Bond Street to continue and expand the linen drapery and India shawl business. They announce plans to stock Bengal sale muslins shawls and handkerchiefs and invite public support. Hodgkinson thanks customers for past favors and seeks continued patronage.
Ladies invited to inspect a cheap grand assortment at No. 148 Strand opposite Catharine Street. 70 India muslins to 31 shillings for two dresses, 170 India mulls, 21s to 2s 3d, numerous damask table linens, Madapollams, cambrics, and shawls. Also 2 elegant Marcell quilts and 560 pieces Russia sheetings. Many items priced below half value with a large British goods selection.
JIE ORIGINAL PROPRESSORS announce a London warehouse stocked with elegant court and base dresses in gold and silver, praised at a Windsor ball and patronised by the Royal family. They offer a wide range of fabrics and costumes, warranting wear, with notices targeting drapers and retailers for genuine goods.
The Meanine Post declares its columns will admit fair and candid discussions of major political subjects on both sides. It states that remarks by the Canpto Orro storonist will receive prompt attention, and thanks a fellow oppositionist for a compliment to its impartiality.
King's Theatre presents the opera La Clemenza Discipione with choruses new scenery dresses and decorations. Bach composed the music. After the first act a divertissement follows and the ballet La Belle Laitiere Blanche Reine de Castille by D Egville with music by Steibler.
The Theatre Royal at Drury Lane presents Douglas Norval Glenalvon with a cast including Miss Boyce and Mrs Powell, followed by Of Age To-morrow and The Provokd Husband. A never performed piece The Soldier’s Return or What Can Beauty Do? with a new music overture by Mr Hook is added.
The Evening Theatres Royal Covent Garden presents Who Wants a Guinea with a large cast including Mr Lewis Kemble Munden Chapman C Kemple Simmons Waddy Davenport Emery Fawcett Master Horre bow Master Benson and Mrs Gibbs Mattocks The Prologue by Mr Brunton Epilogue by Mrs Mattocks Also Aggression The Heroine of Yucatan Tomorrow Zara Osman Master Betty with The Poor Soldier
Report from London describes strict Holland port restraints halting commerce and French efforts to sever England France uses searches to thwart Austrian envoy movements and Corsican threats loom. British defenses include patrols beacons and rapid troop mobilization while Paris and the Hague reshuffle envoys and await fresh dispatches from the colonies.
Private letters from India describe Honkar's forces losing much artillery crossing rivers as they moved toward Delhi. An outpost between the Jumna and the Cane fell to insurgents before Powell could reinforce. Retreating troops abandoned baggage and suffered heavy casualties. Enemies burned villages near Kalingen. The Yall Chieftains defeated Tanvta’s remnants and a detachment of Hforhak’s army, with many slain.
The ship under General Sir Javre Cuesta sailed on Patday List but the wind shifted westward, forcing a return to St. Helen's. By the latest reports, Hae made very little progress and remained near the port with the voyage stalled.
The Eurydice frigate arrived at Péitatabuth on Saturday with no news of interest. On the same day the Serpent sloop of war sailed with men for the West Indies.
The Jamaica papers dated to March 1 state that upon receipt of news of war with Spain an embargo was ordered on all British vessels in Cuba. They note that the number then in port was very small.
Saturday proceedings include a Cabinet discussion on Russian dispatches and a report that Lord Hawkesbury may become First Lord of the Admiralty. Rumors of a second French squadron lack credibility while Rochefort squadron is believed to have escaped. Prisoner exchanges and Jamaica reports surface alongside fleet arrivals and movements in the Caribbean and West Indies.
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