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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 16, 1791
Page
4
Epilogue speech taunts pride in high fashion as Clerk odes to Lady Jane and the Bank scene reveal vanity and risk. A theatrical portrait of Fabion Folly and the modern glittering class ends as the fatal card ends their reign.
Friday in Parliament covers Lords petitions from Scotch peers and Commons committees on slave trade and finance. Royal family at Windsor. King holds Levee at St James's then Windsor visit. East India Directors meet. Manras and Cutwa dispatches delivered. Navy to refit Corwish squadron under Lord Hoop. Tyrrell seeks sailors. Dublin Irish Lottery contract set for March first. budget signals unchanged from last year. Dunpas awaits Swallow Packet to advance India Budget.
Report from Paris on the Colmar disturbance where commissioners escaped a mob shouting long live the king and long live the Count. A bold Colmar citizen and followers from Fauxbourgs saved them from attack. The clash followed a college dispute over clerical oaths and the Jacobin Club's rising power influences the National Assembly. A plan to raise a militia of half a million men was proposed with 36 livres annual enlistment duties, funded by 84 million livres, under Jacobin dominance.
The National Assembly considered terminating a long law-fuit by descendants of Jean Thierry and renewed M Treilvard’s motion to sell national property set aside for charitable foundations. The 1791 expenses were to be presented by M Montesquiou, but he was unprepared and asked to defer the matter, amid expectations of fiscal clarity.
A deputation from the Body of Quakers was admitted, seeking liberty of conscience and familiar privileges in court affirmations. President Miraéegu praised conscience, arguing it as a virtue and comparing it to a cloudless sky, noting citizens have taken an oath as a voluntary assurance of freedom.
February reports note a decree for eight million livres to fund a West Indies squadron and estimates that eighty million may be needed by March. Electors in South Pyrenees elect a new Bishop while tumult grows over the Assembly’s Civil Constitution of the Clergy. A decree orders election of new Bishops for Strasbourg and Colmar in Upper Alsace.
A new smuggling cutter operates between Folktone and the French coast. It imitates a Custom-house cutter so closely that it is nearly indistinguishable. The vessel is noted as unusually successful and feared by others of its kind.
Last night the Pantheon presented the serious Opera Armipa to universal applause. Mara and Pacchigrotti performed in full force with Lazzarini encore in Cavatina. Dances and scenery impressed. Didelot praised. the group earned wide acclaim despite a jury-scene mishap delaying the end past midnight. Fashionable company attended including the Dukes of York and Clarence.
The document outlines a proposed revenue increase on notes, bills, and receipts with specific duties on bearer notes, guaranteed notes, and bills of exchange. It notes opposition from country bankers and includes related financial changes and receipts figures.
The report lists prize numbers for the seventh day showing multiple prizes of gol and rool above twenty five pounds and matched sums such as 44 279 and 24 839 among others. It notes specific prize amounts and categories with several winning numbers across the drawing.
A melancholy accident occurred this afternoon near Hamoaze as six men from South Downs in a Plymouth-bound boat ran afoul of a hawser. Mr. King, a hatter, drowned. four others were saved with difficulty. The Expedition Packet from Lisbon arrived bound for Falmouth. The Mail landed and to be forwarded to London. Capt. Riddel commanded the packet.
A fragment describes a mysterious insect not native to Britain yet abundant in winter. It is described as fluttering and noisy with changing color, elusive gender, and a peculiar habit of cackling its coat. The creature supposedly originates from lavender and other florals in putrescent scents.
Shipping news lists arrivals and sailings at various ports with ships such as Crown Fox Mary Corrar Miterva and Swallow Brows from Newfoundland London and Dublin. Also noted are river and Downs sailings, damage to the Sally from Carthagens, and several vessels from Lisbon Mel AML and Africa. Obituary and birth notices appear, including Lady Fletcher and others, with society dates and marriages. Also ships and mail arrivals at River, Dover, and Charlestown, with stock prices and Navy bonds.
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