THE LEEDS INTELLIGENCER 1804 ST.DOMINGO SLAVE UPRISING,RACING,NELSON MENTION
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THE LEEDS INTELLIGENCER : O riginal antique newspaper . Monday September 17 180 4. L eeds , Printed and Published by Thomas Wright at his office at NEW-S TREET END . Pp 4 Approx 52 cm x 3 9cm. Four sided medium format newspaper, printed on paper in f ive columns on each side, disbound, complete.The newspaper is a classic English regional newspape r of the period. This original issue has good local ads on the front page with small shi p vignettes advertising from Hull to Oporto,Lisbon,Balboa etc , with INSURANCE ADS w ith vignettes (FIRE MARK COLLEC TORS NOTE) on p 4. T here is a good piece on the bloody SLAVE UPRISING in ST.DOMINGO (HAITI) from French newspapers. White inhabitants are massacred - the accounts from Planters who manage to escape- and their murders are described in some horrid detail .About 20cm of coverage in very s mall type. Another main interest in the paper has to be in the local stories and ads , and a small piece which mentions NELSON- only nine lines, locatin g him off Toulon with nine sail of the line. There is also a good piece on RACING from PONTEFRACT which includes a n account of a rider 's foot being "caught b y a person on foot which pulled him off".About 20 column cm. A lively and entertaining newspaper .
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