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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 18, 1791
Page
4
A readable fragment of a Victorian era stage prologue discussing the clash between mirth and sorrow in the Shakespearean style. Mr Taylor writes and Mr Holman performs a theatrically celebratory and self critical preface as critics and fashion are urged to judge with mercy. The piece invokes Mirth and Melpomene and ends with a nod to Pope and virtue’s tears.
From the London Gazette of April 12 the list records bankrupts Samuel Harris Thomas Turner William Clinton and others with surrender dates and venues including Guildhall Swan Inn and Wardrobe Court. Also noted are bankruptcy enlargements supersessions and multiple dividend payments to creditors across cities such as Lancaster Truro Bristol and Liverpool with various dates and chairman attorneys.
The royal party traveled from Windsor Lodge to Buckingham House on Wednesday afternoon. Parliament will adjourn for Easter holidays tomorrow. The King hunted with his hounds near Salt El yesterday. Ministers convened at the Duke of Sieps’s Office in the afternoon with Mr. Ewart in attendance. A Court of Directors met at the East Indian House, adjourning later. The stock rise signals fears of a war with Rufia, but it is believed Empress to retain Octatow with Pitt advising Prussia. Seamen resist service, causing bloodshed greater than remembered during the present armaments period. A general Merrine at Brackagaty is anticipated, with opportunistic pickpockets likely to act on the same site.
A seven year old girl steals about 1 dollar from a bake shop in the Grass Market, is pursued, caught, and money largely recovered. A donation of 12,000 pounds sterling to the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge in Scotland is noted. Commentary spans Levant Company trade duties, English politics, and social gossip including weddings and courtly figures with various European news items.
Eleven pilots from St Marys Scilly perished taking charge of coasters in a heavy east wind and flood tide. Four Watts brothers died along with seven widows and children left. Ireland reports a sharp cork and Waterford port strike, a deadly Wexford fever, and naval trade disputes with Prussia over treaties. Miscellaneous items include ship collisions near Limerick and Waterford, a Royal George cutter seizure of a Fly Fish, a Wraxham court witness in a grave, and local deaths in Essex and Hackney.
Continental Intelligence reports Prince Jablonowski meeting the king to thank for rejecting Berlin’s proposed fresh partition of Poland. A Warsaw note is awaited to formally deny Goltz’s report. London dispatches hint at a Baltic fleet crisis and possible war to force Russia into a status quo, impacting trade and Polish diplomacy. Warsaw sits tight amid secret sessions and competing Berlin and Prussia interests.
PORTSMOUTH APRIL 183. Arrived the Jenny Metcalf from St Maloes Diana elon from Liverpool and Proserpine frigate from the West Indies bringing recent news and cargo updates for the harbor observers.
Ship news lists arrivals on April 18 and 20 from Lisbon and London with vessels including Mary Roskruge Eleonor Henderson and Durham Clark. Also notes Dear dated April 16 and 18 with ships Alfred Ardent and others, plus births in Geneva and Merrion-row Dublin to titled ladies.
Two wedding notices from Effendon and Hertford: Benjamin Cherry of Hertford to Frances Opine at Effendon Church with Rev Robert Orme officiating. and Charles Smith of Bromley to Susamuah Devall at Effendon with Rev Orme presiding.
An obituary note records the deaths of several individuals: Mrs Sabine of Grosvenor Square and daughter of the late General Sabine. Mr Batchelor of Hackney who died suddenly after appearing well. Mr Bowden, a German gentleman, in Craven-itrest after a calm day. Mr Ruffell, a shoe-maker of Cornhill. Penover Watkins Esquire, JPI of Pembrokeshire. and Wexfordy Leland Johy Spencer Webb, late of the 11th Regiment of Foot.
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