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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 25, 1791
Page
4
A verse fragment depicts night fading into day as a watchman calls, a misfit rider from Leaden Hall pursues a roverlike prize. The scene unfolds with comic mayhem as a broken pony cart carries the hunter to his end.
A fragment from a historical dispatch depicts France in disarray with a collapsed government, royal dangers, La Fayette’s resignation, and looming conflict as Europe readies for possible action after peace with Russia. Other notes report bread price drop, troop movements, a Charleston shipwreck, Pinckney’s formal proclamation, and a South Carolina plea on slave justice.
In Paris in April, debate on who may rule France intensifies as republicans reject kingship while monarchists defend orderly government. Louis XVI is scrutinized for fidelity to a national constitution amid royalist and revolutionary critiques. Résignations mount at sea and royal chambers as critics seek foreign medical aid for the king.
M. de la Fayette has fully resigned the post of Commander in Chief. Centinels before his door were removed. Volunteers offer to guard his house in honor and attachment to his person. It is expected many other officers will follow his example.
The Marine Minister reports Barbary States kept National Colours except Tunis which required Algiers consultation. A decree on the King's residence and presumptive heir is read, and the President to seek the King’s sanction. A second decree orders sailors arrested at Martinique to be sent to their departments and held as prisoners in St Maloes.
The present crops of grass look good and hay in abundance, with market prices 6s per load for the best and 46s to 47s for inferior. Hemp cultivation grows in popularity, about 500 claimants seek premiums from the Agricultural Society across the kingdom. A London Black Committee plans to thank Mr Wilberforce for his humane efforts on their behalf. A Bishop of Lincoln plans a bill to abolish tithes, replacing the value by a twentieth of the last twenty years’ tithe value as clerical pay, with gradual adjustments as grain value shifts.
The remains of Doctor Price were laid to rest yesterday at two in Dr Wartis’s family tomb Bunhill fields The funeral reflected his simple character with a hearse six horses seventeen mourning coaches and thirty six carriages including Lord Stanhope Count Zenobia and other notable figures An oration by Dr Kirpis was given and a sermon will be preached at Hackney by Dr PristLey next Sunday.
Yesterday John Smith was re examined on a charge by W George a Coldstream Guardsman for attempting an unnatural crime in St James s Park. George Laurence Elliot also faced a foot pad robbery charge. A Bristol surgeon who fled with Miss Crerk was captured at Ostend. The piece notes European power shifts, Polish corn imports, and political contests in Exeter and Petersfield. It also reports a money hoard found near Moorfields.
Racing notes describe the Craven Stakes with Mufti Creeper Don Quixote and Serpent among entries. Futures list weights and odds for multiple horses, with cross entries and stakes including 200gs and 30ogs across The Flat and Across the Flat courses, detailing odds for Tadpole Pellegrine Anthony Buzzard Lais and other runners.
A dated shipping notice lists vessels and captains arriving at or leaving Dover Liverpool Granada Lisbon Charlestown Oporto Dublin Antigua and other ports with origins including Grenada St Vincent Africa Cork Jersey and Virginia Names include Culler Dennison Grieve Darlington Swinburn Miller Arthur Platt Forrest Johnson Johnson Harford and others April 27 arrivals and April 25 death announce birth of a countess daughter at Portman Square house
Marriages take place in London with multiple entries: the Earl Cholmondeley weds Lady Charlotte Bertie by special license at the Duchess of Ancaster's Berkeley Square home. Rev Me Bowier performs in St George's Hanover Square. Viscount Fielding weds Miss Powis at St George's. Mr Bird, a hair merchant, wed Mrs Brockhurt at St Giles's yesterday.
Died. Friday fortnight at a public house in Appleford Yorksire a man known only as Burton Bill found dead. On the 17th ult on his passage from Dominica to England Capt Heathcote of the 60th regiment foot. Also Monday Mrs Vena wife of Mr Venn Rawlane and youngest daughter of William James Gambier Esqr of Camberwell. Lately at his house in Upper Brook Street Thomas Ramfe don Esquire
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