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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 11, 1792
Page
4
A fragment quotes questions about when a beloved will be near and how the bosom will be filled with rapture at her sight. The archaic phrasing evokes a lyric or dramatic aside. No clear events, names beyond Laura, or concrete facts are stated.
The London Paris court accord ends the dispute over frigates in the East Indies and a plan to send aid to Tippoo. New directors were elected at the India House, dispatches for Madras and Bengal closed, and market strains noted as dividends await.
The Prince’s Stud at Newmarket presented thirty three lots including horses and mares aged three and under. Escape and Traveller, the favourites, are entered for small stakes while matches and sweepstakes total 24,355 guineas with engagements heavy overall.
London April 3 reports the House of Commons voted to abolish the Slave Trade by a large majority while delaying a fixed abolition date. Stanhope urges France to follow Denmark and England, praising reason and justice, and asks Condorcet to share the news with Perron and Rocne Froucaulp. About 500 petitions against the trade are noted.
In St Domingo four French ships with 146 gunners and 22 soldiers arrived, followed by two more vessels bringing total troops to 4000. The presence aims to influence the situation with the mulattoes whom the blacks oppose. Port-au-Prince remains at war with mulattoes at Croix des Bouquets, trade halted as a result. Southern province mulattoes camp at Cavaillon, with Cayes still at risk but some hope of saving it.
Reports from New York Philadelphia and Dublin note brisk trade and shipments to Canton. Congress plans a standing army after Indian defeat. the ship Fane sails south. Dublin selects a new Sheriff. Bradford weather-wind damage, Taunton cruelty case ends in six months jail and fines with bond.
Resolutions proposed by Mr. Ryper and adopted by the House of Commons lay groundwork for a bill regulating importation and exportation of Sugar and Coffee, with duties and drawbacks. They set price-based export prohibitions, warehouse rules, and special ports in Nassau and the Bahama islands, aiming to control trade with nonBritish colonies and foreign states.
Four regiments of infantry and a detachment of artillery have been stationed in Jamaica since the late war. Officers receive island pay plus an extra ration for dependents, with provisions for wives and children. A 49th Regiment was sent from Barbados in December to reinforce security, and a light dragoons corps was raised under Lieutenant Colonel Gardiner. Gardiner did not notify the island of embarkation, and the corps expected local funding and horse support. If funds are not provided, troops may be reassigned and Gardiner’s commission vacated. no gazetting in London and Middlesex has occurred yet.
Fragmentary report lists his Majesty's cutter Ranger of 16 guns under Lieut Cotgrave arriving between the Island and the Main. It notes Majestys ships Iphigenia and another vessel with several guns and captains, amid unclear soundings and positions.
Captain Downe aboard the Martha from Charles Town reports the London to Savannah packet is weeks out and the London Cofin bound for the South Seas is near the desired latitude. The Providence returns from Memel leaky with four feet water in hold. The Prince of William sails from London, leaks found, crew reduced to biscuits and water as the ship has been at sea twelve weeks and four days.
Seventy environmental free observations on the scurvy gout diet and exercise with medicinal waters. Includes over 100 cures printed in Octavo edition sold by Bew and Wilkie and E Newbery. Extract notes Revise of London Magazine September 1789 praises the pamphlet for medical advice at a trifling fee. The work targets valetudinarians and diet rules, with clever tea and push observations. The last edition reportedly sold out in a few weeks.
Shipping news reports arrivals and departures on April 17 including Vigilant Holliday from Liverpool Affiliarce Parishy, Neptune Grazarta from Liverpool, Roserway Woodham from Jamaica and Chayloute Hill from Amsterdam. Others include Fiichcislip Watson from Grenada Twilight from Lisbon Mediator Glasspool bound South Sea. Wind in the Downs affects several vessels including Remains in the Downs ike Thomas W for Dominica.
Fragmented notices recount performances at Covent Garden and Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Mentions of Cavary-Lans Company, Robin Hood, The Road to Ruin, saints and marriages, a Nice South of France wedding, and oblique references to deaths, births, and shipping stock prices with scattered names such as Mrs Sheridan and Captain Thomas Urquabto.
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