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Newspaper
Morning Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 23, 1793
Page
4
A 1793 tribute poem praising Earl Spencer for kindness and sympathy. It speaks of mercy, consolation, and the infant’s smile as signs of benevolence, ending with heartfelt thanks from parents and the angels bearing blessings to heaven.
A historical roster lists troops deployed or ordered abroad on the Continent and other theaters. It covers Horse Guards four troops Dragoon Guards five regiments Dragoons ten regiments Foot sixty six battalions with distinctions for West Indies America Gibraltar Guernsey Jersey East Indies and overall totals under the present war.
In a shocking crime at Fakenham, Sarah Nichols, about seventeen, daughter of carpenter John Nichols, was murdered Saturday evening while returning from Honington with flour. Her body was found next morning in a ditch near Thetford-alane gate, strangled with a black worsted binding, blood at the mouth, with notable items scattered nearby.
A July letter from Norfolk Virginia describes horrors in Santo Domingo with Cotton burning and massacres. It accuses Civil Commissioners Pulverel and Santhonax of arson pillage and arming slaves. Citizens including Mesdames Charet La Freniere Arnaud Arnon and de Seillac suffer hunger and exposure. Matilde is dead. The writer says Americans provide ration relief while plunder profits rise and Cape town remains ruined.
Sporting Intelligence from Gloucester reports a race day on Tuesday September 10 with entries including Address owned by Loyaltys and Boston, Little Flyer, Bottom Si, York-High odds against Address in the ur. 2 Aged Plate. Delta 5 years old and Colchis run for Lol Courtenay and Specimen, with Delta also facing high odds against.
By the King's Patent dated February 4 1792 Mrs Spilsbury announces she now carries on the business at Soho Square as the sole preparer of the antiscorbutic drops. The notice notes Spilsbury's long trial of thirty years and his will instructing Mrs Spilsbury to continue the preparation for his wife and family to assure public confidence in a genuine remedy.
DIED On Monday at Stamford Henrietta Cecil Pauncefort aged 73 died Thursday Thomas Day Esq of English bach near Bath Dr Cabbell eminent physician and JP for Somerset Last week Winchester School Master Charles Hawkins youngest brother of Sir John Hawkins Bart of Kelfton near Bath
This Day marks the anniversary of His Majesty's Coronation and no business will be conducted at the Stock Exchange.
Park Lane Sept 11 1993 Three mares owned by the Right Hon Richard Mead Lord Gillford have been under the care of the writer since 1790. Having failed to receive a response from his lordship or friends, the mares will be sent to Tattersalls Grosvenor Place for auction on the following Monday after being shown on Friday. James Fozard Livery-Stable Keeper.
A Gentleman abroad offers four bay mares and four griponies, all young and sound, likely to make hunters. Enquiries at Thomas's, Sadler, Hertford Street Mayfair. Also a bay getroine about 15 hands, fast trotter, in harness, seen at Red Lion Livery Stables Cookspurt Street. exchange possible for a darker horse taller by about an inch. Also a gray groping horse carried Mrs Fitzherbert, fifteen hands, seventeen stone, can trot fourteen mph, suitable for a timid lady. Abbeys Livery Stables Little James's Street near Pall Mall offers a bay mare carried a lady twelve months.
Public sale advertised for sixty four lots of Treverbyn Lanivert Rescoll Trethurfe and Nantough manors with royalty mines and year leases. Includes capital bartons of Treemeere Trethurfe and Nantough and alternate presentation to the rectory of Ladock valued about 6 pounds yearly. Plans and particulars available from Woollcombe and listed offices.
A long advertisement lists new works on North American geography, settlement, and law from Debretts. It notes Drury’s plans for Kentucky, maps of the Western Territory, and guides to land purchasing. It promotes Wilsons legal writings, American state histories, and various political and religious texts with prices and edition details.
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