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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 08, 1791
Page
3
Fragmentary report shows a hearing titled Heard Goarel on a Scotth with Asppeal Oilvie versus Wingate. The court adjourned the further hearing till the first Saturday after the recess and then adjourned to Monday.
From the London Gazette dated April as a Constantinople and February 22 reports the plague scarcely noticeable in the capital. Venice notation on March 25 notes royal and noble dignitaries including the King and Queen of Naples and other archdukes arriving in the city with their suites yesterday.
The War Office lists numerous promotions and appointments across regiments including the 2d or Royal North British Dragoons 16th Light Dragoons 3d Foot 11th Foot 1st Foot 18th Royal Irish Foot 7th Foot 47th Foot 6th Foot 57th Foot 60th Royal American Foot Highland Foot and the New South Wales Corps. Officers such as Lieutenant James Hay Cornet Hugh Dive Captain-Lieutenant, John S Stuart Cornet, Donald Macdonald Lieutenant James Smith Sailie Ensign Henry Clinton Captain of a Company Major Hay Macdowall Lieutenant Colonel, Thomas Holme Ensign, James Spens Major Charles O Hara Major General, Joseph Foveaux Captain, and several Lieutenants and Ensigns receive new ranks or postings.
A telegraphic roster of bankrupts including Edward Eggington Clerkenwell and William Lancaster Whitechapel with surrender dates set at Guildhall. Names from Manchester Liverpool York Wolverhampton and Salisbury plus recognitions of bankruptcy enlarged and certificates to be granted by April 30.
Wednesday morning reports the Majrittes and three elder Princesses returning to Windsors Lodge from Buckingham House. Earlier the royal family attended divine service at Chapel Royal St James's, with the Queen holding a Drawing-Room later. Evening talks of India affairs, theater plans, and social gossip fill the page along with stock transfers and local notices.
Curious predictions circulate about political eclipses this year including a new French constitution overshadowed by an old order, Poland’s fate visible in Berlin London and The Hague, and a general turn against state control. The text claims press liberty will eclipse in France and partly in England, with money and rights under scrutiny.
Reports from Constantinople describe the disfigured head of the late Grand Vizir shown as a state traitor, with public support for Juffus Pacha's appointment. War preparations continue amid Alsace disturbances as Neugebauer regiment moves to Fribourg. Also noted: Jewish emigration controls, Wallachian Hospodar pledge, and Russian-British diplomacy affecting Baltic commerce.
A lady injures her leg stepping from a carriage at Blackfriars Church and is taken to Rev. Romaine's where it is set. Lord Charles H. Somerset loses thirteen guineas and a half to a pocket pick during the King’s guard change at St James’s. A Halifax arrival found dead in a lodgings at London Wall. A fire at the Three Cups Inn Broad Street destroys the building and stables. a clerk perishes in the flames and a coroner’s inquest at Bell-yard, Temple-bar, cites lunacy. Thieves break into Mr Harrison's Piercy Street Tottenham Court Road home at four in the morning, stealing plate valued around twenty pounds after decanting Madeira.
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