200 Magazine #10 April 1823 / 2023
The April 1823 edition of 200 said that ‘The Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis’ (a French army not nearly as big as that) had invaded Spain to restore King Ferdinand VII to power as a hardline conservative ruler in Madrid.
In Lincoln, three men had been publicly executed for sodomy after a homosexual vice ring was uncovered. Imposing death sentences, the judge said the crimes were of so damning a nature that the Almighty had destroyed whole cities for the guilt of it.
Upwards of 100 men, women and children died when a ‘packet’ ship operating between Dublin and Liverpool sank off the Welsh island of Anglesey. In North-West England, soldiers were protecting new employees hired by a cotton mill near Wigan, after bosses locked out striking spinners. There was also news from Brighton, Cornwall, and London.
