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Foreign News
September 27, 1819
The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
In Dublin, complaints about public bathing in the Grand Canal led Alderman Archer to order police to seize bathers' clothes, forcing a large number to return home naked on a recent Sunday evening.
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Decency.--A number of persons having been recently in the daily habit of bathing in the Grand Canal, Dublin, to the great offence of all the decent people of the neighborhood, a complaint was made on the subject to Alderman Archer, who discreetly ordered, that, to prevent in future the eyes of the innocent and modest from being insulted by such exhibitions of nudity, the Police Officers should repair to the Canal and take away the clothes of the bathers! Accordingly on Sunday e'enight the Officers went to the Canal and brought away the clothes of a "great number" of persons then bathing, who were thus obliged to trot home naked!!
What sub-type of article is it?
Public Decency Incident
Police Enforcement
What keywords are associated?
Grand Canal Bathing
Dublin Police
Public Nudity
Clothes Seizure
Alderman Archer
What entities or persons were involved?
Alderman Archer
Where did it happen?
Grand Canal, Dublin
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Grand Canal, Dublin
Event Date
On Sunday E'enight
Key Persons
Alderman Archer
Outcome
a great number of persons obliged to trot home naked
Event Details
Persons bathing naked in the Grand Canal, Dublin, offended neighbors; complaint to Alderman Archer led to police order to take away bathers' clothes; on Sunday e'enight, officers seized clothes of many bathers, forcing them to go home naked.