Economic Strains Highlight Wartime Trade and Craft
The piece surveys trade shifts and manufacturing distress across Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Devon and other counties. It notes wool, linen, and Ruffin shortages, rising sugar and coffee prices, fluctuating fashion dependent industries, and partial relief from benevolent efforts for watchmakers and clock makers. It remarks on domestic demand versus abroad, and the army and theatres sustaining musical and dramatic arts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Ireatia
Newfoundland
India House
Essex
Suffolk
Norfolk
Devon
Kent
Wilts
Dorset
Welch
Downs
Manchester
France
China
Destruction of Rome and papal fall under Napoleonic rule
A fragment recounts Buonaparte’s policy to destroy the Papal States during Rome’s siege, the Pope Pius VI’s aged peril and attempted reform, Berthier’s coercive tactics, and the forcible seizure of papal treasures including the Library and Vatican objects. It details the planting of the Tree of Liberty at St. Angelo, the Pope’s removal, and Haller’s demand for the papal jewels and concessions as Rome’s fate unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Milan
Papal
Buonaparte
Rulin
Cardinal Doria
Pius VI
Europe
Rome
Berthier
Duphot
Clementinu
St. Angelo
Bertier
Haller
Sacred College
Max Feums
Vatican
Rewfere Yants
Halleri
Hatter
Pope
Yow Hall