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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 06, 1791
Page
3
Parliament lists nominees for Downton and Dorchester election petitions. Committees were formed and orders altered to postpone Westminster and Orkney petitions. Notices said Chancellor and Fox pressed delaying other petitions until after Easter recess.
The House received a Petition noting supposed ignorance of distant voters and referred it to the Slave Trade Committee. The Birmingham Canal Bill passed its third reading. Supply and Ways and Means committees were deferred to tomorrow. The Chichester Paving Bill second reading adjourned due to lack of quorum with Mr Thompson moving for a count.
Yesterday the Queen hosted a drawing room with royal attendance including Augusta and Evizagetth, while the fleet under Lord Hoop stood at 54 ships. Reports touch on Franco-Russian-Prussian aims, the Bristol elopement, a duel near Whitehaven, Gerrard’s fatal accident, and a harsh proposal to punish convicts by forced labor and branding to deter escapes.
Four members of the Diplomatic Committee confronted M. Montmorin in Paris on April 3 over new foreign ministry appointments. Montmorin defended the king’s choice as excellent while noting critics from the Monarchic Club. De Menou denounced the exchange to the Jacobin Club and warned of possible disturbances from chapel plate removals. In Strasburg, the Regiment of Bretagne faces anticipated military action against three officers.
The National Assembly on April 2 discussed successions but was halted by news of Mirabeau’s death. Deputies urged unity to curb faction, the Bishop of Autun recited Mirabeau’s composition, printed as his dying legacy, and Barrere proposed a deputation to attend the funeral as France united in mourning. The President said the whole kingdom would view this as a duty, and the session ended with a brief, uninteresting debate.
A deputation from Grange-Bateliere asks the National Assembly to grant public funeral honours to M. de Mirabeau and extend the practice to other eminent Frenchmen. They propose dedicating the new Church of St Genevieve as a burial place for notable revolutionaries and urge that the Temple of Religion receive departed patriotism. The Paris department supports these proposals and requests special recognition for several figures.
A Covent Garden chimney sweep pleaded guilty to cruel and barbarous treatment of his fifteen year old apprentice John Lee bound in January 1790. Lee endured repeated flogging with rods and whips, leading to hospital treatment. The court ruled the master had no right to such punishment and sentenced him to six months imprisonment.
The Paris department directors must hire artisans to prepare St Genevieve’s church for the occasion and engrave the motto AUX GRANDS HOMMES, LA PATRIE RECONNOISSANCE on its front. The Assembly approved the plan amid acclamations, except for dissenters d EspremMENIL Montesier and Rochesrune who opposed praising M miraszau as a great man.
Yesterday began the Westminster Quarter Sessions. A Taylor faced charges of an unnatural assault on Park Constable Percival and assaults while in duty, with a third charge of common assault. Verdict: Not Guilty.
A Royal Military Duke is preparing to depart the country under the pretext of a Berlin trip to join the Prussian army as a commander. Generals Dowpas and O’Hara are noted in the promotions, with broader gossip about failed schemes and royal navigation through naval and transport developments. A satirical note mentions smugglers and a ship for Botany Bay, alongside a somber tale of a youth who poisoned himself amid dissipations and debt after a failed apprenticeship and an attachment to a woman in Newman Street.
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