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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 21, 1791
Page
4
A speaker describes clothing with comic overtones, boasting of a cape, bow, and collar. The narration notes a large roller beneath the collar likened to a German sausage and imagines catching attention in a lobby.
A busy morning brings letters from the King of the French to Mr Bartholemew as a Court of Directors meets at the India House. London society shifts as the Duchess of Gordon and the Duke and Duchess of Arcamont arrive, Lady Stanley departs for Lisbon, and debates over France's politics continue with royalist critiques of the National Assembly and the future of monarchy versus democracy. The Duke of Ricamont’s museum survives a fire, and gifts are bestowed or proposed, reflecting a tense blend of court life and political commentary.
Birmingham region report of an assault as Mr Mander of Bentley Heath was swept from his horse by a rope across Stratford road near Foreman’s Lane. Two men rifled his pockets of gold and silver, beat him, and fled. The piece also details deadly weather events on the prior night and a dramatic flood rescue near Cromford with multiple men trapped and saved by improvised crossings.
In Gloucester on Saturday the Duke of Norfolk and John Webb, MP, attended divine service at the Cathedral in gowns as Aldermen of the city. The Fazely and Birmingham Canal has raised share values, new furnaces near Abergavenny promise growth, and nations weigh iron and coal riches against imperial schemes and a national debt of 250 million pounds.
Mr David Bell of Botchard gate Carlisle faced distress and was aided by Joseph Liddell of Moor house. After Bell’s death last week Liddell inherits over 200 pounds and pledges to divide the sum among Bell’s poorest relations.
From the Leeward by November 6 reports heavy gales drove three vessels ashore at St Eustatia two at St Bartholomew s a ship five sloops and a schooner at St Martin s and at Anguilla hardly a negro house stands
Letters from St Helena report ships Rozario and others sighted a two decker believed to be the Crown man of war en route to the Cape, with a second vessel following. Reports from St Maloes recount a slave revolt quelled. Emigre arms at Namur forged with For our Religion, or King on ibres. Severe frosts in Madrid Aragon Castile with scarce cattle. A Dublin theater actress perished after a sloop wreck near Wicklow. London crime notes include coiners, poisoning, and multiple burglaries in Covent Garden Nightingale Lane and surrounding streets.
The fragment notes a lottery draw with a prize amount and title uncertain. It mentions a fourth day, a prize of coal or color, and a sleight draw implying entitlement to a portion, but details are incomplete and names or places are not clear.
On December 21 ships arrived and sailed from Prymouty including Betfey Jorneau Meredith and three others from Cork Alicant Normantier and Denia with cargo and passengers. Unity Meaur sailed for Bourdeaux.
The Archive Miller sailing from Rotterdam to Portsmouth is towed into Dunkirk. The Mary Bruce from Dantzic with damage went into Plymouth and must unload. The Manchester M Dowell from Lisbon is on shore at Liverpool. The Yucatan Barton from Kinsale is on shore at St Kitts but likely to be got off. The Dove of Nevis is loft at St Kitts. The Pegasus frigate Capt Dommet from Lisbon is arrived at Plymouth.
The piece lists multiple London and Westminster vendors stocking Mr Sprassury’s Antiscor Drops at 2s per small bottle 11, with directions, naming William Clark 269 Borough Wray’s Birchin Lane Randall and Bolton Royal Exchange Cornhill Dicey Row Churchyard F Newbery 49 St Pauls G Wilkie Paternoster Row E Newbery Corner of St Pauls Bayley and Lowe Cockspur Street Steer Bond Street Bacon 100 Oxford Street and proprietor F R S Spilsbury 15 Soho Square. Agents in Edinburgh Keltie and Daw. In Glasgow James Duncan.
Ship news lists arrivals at Chesapeake Africus and Liverpool with multiple vessels from London Barbadoes and Newfoundland. Weather notes show winds eight knots and blowing hard, with several ships sailing to Jamaica Dublin and Honduras from Deal and Dea Dec 22.
Theatres present Daury Lane Company with The Heiress and Poor Old Drury. Concludes with Know Your Own Mind and Richard Cour de Lion. Covent Garden showcases The Conscious Lovers and a new Past mime The Blue Beard followed by Inkie and Yarico and a new pantomime The Bee Beard and Flight of Harlequin.
Births and marriages reported from the period include the birth of a son to the Lady of John H Ackerley at their Marlforton house, a marriage in Ireland between Bolton Waller and Miss Henn, and a union of Rev Plaxton Dickinson to Miss Grant. Also noted are deaths of John Dawson Coate in Dublin, the Reverend D S Shift at 71, Captain James Barford at Mile End Old Town, and Captain Augustus Dumaresque in Bath.
Bank stock at 3 percent reduced readings show values around 8 3 4 plus fractions. Conflicting quotes list 5 8 and 4 percent bonds with prices near 102 3 3rds and 1 half. Navy annuities and long annuities quoted, stock numbers like 26 7 8 and 12 5 8 appear with various par values and exchequer bills and lottery tickets noted in the ledger.
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