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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 25, 1791
Page
1
Advertises a church living with a value over 300 pounds near a market town within 15 miles of a university and about 60 miles from London. Includes free old farm with out-buildings and 140 acres arable and pasture. Applicants to Mr. Stone, Surveyor, Gray's Inn, London.
The firm states a prize of five hundred pounds drawn that day will be paid in full to holders of shares. Shares are quarters, eighths, and sixteenths, with immediate prize money payable. Tickets and shares will continue to be sold at the same price as other offices, undrawn at purchase.
For the accommodation of the town, the houses and schemes may be had as usual at Meff Taylor and Co No 9 Cockspun Street Cuansing Cross, doors from the Hay Market.
The Royal Union Bank, 50 Lombard Street, declares a raise in share receipts for its Irish Lottery exchanges while stressing the unchanged value of prizes. It cites large past payouts including 4400 pounds to William Lawrence and notes sales of twenty thousand pound prizes to named individuals.
In 1719 the Count de Gages who married a Marquis of Powis's sister gained Mississippi stock in Paris worth vast sums. He sought to be monarch by offering three million pounds for the Crown of Poland and a British royal title for Sardinia, both refused. The shock and illness followed, and he fell into misfortune, dying after a futile career and a costly funeral.
A critique of current imprisonment argues that petty offenders quickly rise to greater crimes due to prison influences. It warns that mixed company and bad morals in Newgate and Bridewell harden criminals, promote new trades in theft, and deter reform. The author cites Howard and promises a future letter detailing solitary confinement’s potential benefits.
In Scotland, Magdalena Barbare de late Motte appeals a Court of Sessions decree on her adulterous affair with Lieut. Previst. Evidence included a servant drilling holes in a door to spy on the couple and a mistress remark about horns for the husband. The Lord Chancellor affirmed the lower court’s decision with costs, despite a peculiar model of the room being shown in court.
A British observer argues for retooling Canada s land tenure to end feudal seigneuries from the French regime. He notes Loyalist settlements on the St Lawrence near Point au Baudet contain about ten thousand souls and that rents and lordly rights could spark disputes. He urges government purchase or other measures to render Loyalist lands as free as those in Nova Scotia.
A cor respondent's note on the palace Sweeper role, once a profitably held position in King William’s era, with sweepings yielding two to three hundred per year. It contrasts Queen's time etiquette limiting access, making valuables common and often left behind, creating notable losses and finds.
The passage notes a quack healer praised by Pope, who sold universal remedies like quicksilver, gaining fame through cures during the reign of George I. It compares later times, after Twelfth Night, when court tables and social mixing reduced profits and altered the balance of gatherings in the Drawing Room and nearby rooms.
A large muggling cutter appeared west of the Needles and discharged 300 casks of brandy. A grounding tore the boat and spilled many casks into the sea, later driven into Freshwater Bay where locals traded or moved them to safety. A young woman in the town swallowed pins after a sudden knock at her door.
On Saturday February 19 the timber preservation bill was read a second time in the Irish Lords. Lord Mountmorres moved for committee. A brief exchange with the Lords Chancellor warned the bill may conflict with the British constitution, while another lord feared printing could provoke depredations. The bill was committed for Wednesday. An engros sed Commons bill granting duties on letters was read a first time and set for a second reading Monday, after which the House adjourned.
In the Commons on Monday February 21 the debate on the Free Trade bill's effect on China trade stretched past two in the morning. Mr Grattan moved a committee to examine whether any law deprives Britain of free trade with routes beyond the Cape and Magellan Straits, the division showing 144 to 148 against the motion as the House adjourned to continue next day.
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