200 Magazine #6 November and December 1822 / 2022
The big front-page story was the commissioning by a London music society of a new symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, his ninth. News that the German maestro was to compose his first in close to a decade would cause joy, said the magazine.
The last edition of 1822 reported the release from prison in Somerset of the radical campaigner for political reform, Henry Hunt. He had been jailed for his role in the ‘Peterloo’ rally broken up by troops in Manchester in 1819, In Scotland, the Caledonian Canal had finally opened, a decade later and twice the original budget. Thomas Telford confounded sceptics who said it could not be built across some of the most mountainous terrain in Britain. This edition of 200 also featured a report of rising tension in Dublin after protests by Orangemen, and news from Coventry, Co. Durham, London, Manchester and Newcastle.
Hugo Javier Freitas
Laura Yeoman
