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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 28, 1791
Page
4
Report from Paris describes widespread accusations of royal funds fleeing France and a rising aristocratic influence in Toulouse. Mob and patriots clash over money, with figures of ten and many rumors about bishops, oaths, and royal marriage.
Wednesday afternoon reports show Committee of Supply and Ways and Means debating Québec settlement while the House considers Land Tax Commissioners bill. Levee at St James's, Queen to Draw Room. Mails to New York Jamaica and Leeward Islands prepared at General Post Office. Dutch papers publicize a 350,000 loan to great personages. two lawyers named to execute. Welch Society dined at Crown and Anchor after Divine Service with Prince of Wales’s bounty. Paymaster General’s Office accounts and pay sent to reduced officers and horse guards. Jury trial concerns four foreign Jews for offering stolen jewels. Madame du Barre’s jewels valued around 40,000 recovered. she remains witty and vivacious at 46. Count of Arrows to reside in Turin. Caronge stays in Venice until Carnival. Turkish ambassador’s Berlin entry Feb 16 after quarantine. Brunette withdraws from public gaze to Ireland. Oakhampton confirms Ladbroke and St Leger returned to office by small majorities.
Early this morning a fierce blaze gutted the ldion Mills on the Surrey side of Blackfriars Bridge, consuming the interior and about 2000 sacks of corn and flour. Nearby houses also burned, Albion Place was scorched but saved by engines. Damage estimated at 16,000 pounds with suspicions of arson.
The plan for dividing Canada into Upper and Lower is not yet shared with merchants. Kingston would host the new government, called Fort Frontenac or Cataraqui, about 150 miles above Montreal, near Loyalist settlements along the St Lawrence and Lake Ontario. The district would center on Kingston, with Detroit and Michilimackinac as frontier posts. The region offers a fertile, industrious population and rich fishing rivers and lakes from Detroit to Montreal, especially large trout.
A grand monument for Frederick the Great is planned in Berlin with the King directing a premium for the best design. The pedestal will use batalte from Silesia, and six years are allotted for completion.
Reports describe a violent snow fall Friday night causing coach disruptions from Bath to London and Portsmouth. Carriages stuck on hills, drivers cold, passengers stranded, and roads nearly impassable with drifts up to seven feet.
The Sally Harris from Corke to Dublin reached Datlin harbour with little damage expected to shore. The St James from New York to Londonderry is ashore in Londonderry River. The Friends Roberts from Guernsey to New castle lies ashore near Margate. The Mary and Ann from Rotterdam to London is lost in Yarmouth Roads. The Mercury from Virginia to London wrecked at Scilly. some cargo saved. A large ship unnamed sinks on Goodwin Sand. another vessel also sinks with wool wire lead from Altona to Hamburg. The Mould from Hull to London near Southwold feared lost. The Neptune from Swanage to London ashore near Poole harbour. The Jeune Herritte from L Orient to Ostend stranded at Boulogne. The Renike from Bremen to Nantes stranded on Swedish coast. The Jonge Cornelius from Amsterdam to the Mediterranean stranded off Valencia. The Start from Liverpool to London arrives Milford with rudder loss and other damage to Providence from London to Rofs with bowsprit loss. The New Ceres from Liverpool to Ce diz returns to iv rpot with some unload. The Thomas from London to Ye ton put into Shierness with anchors or cables. The Vrow Piche from Embden to London on shore near Kingsgate. hoped to be got off. The Leith, on the Ram{, sinks.
The report lists numerous prize numbers from an English state lottery dated the seventeenth day and eighteenth day. Ticket No 3273 drawn yesterday won a large prize and was sold at Hazard and Co.s Office in fractional shares. Ticket No 34867 drawn the same day won 10,000 and was sold in various fractional shares at the same office.
Portsmouth ships ready to sail under Captain Carthew as Ulyssés takes command. News from London delayed by deep snow. mail arrived at six. March reports Princess Augusta Westbeach arriving from London. Anna Bulmer sails for Havre de Grace. Salisbury returns to harbor. Earl Cornwallis outward bound, East Indiaman sailing.
In a historic ruling by the Court of Chancery, Mrs. Evans wins after a prolonged litigation against Lord Napier. This third determination follows prior defeats in Prerogative Court and High Court of Delegates, and a petition for a royal review, marking an unprecedented Irish sequence. The Lord Chancellor endorsed the earlier two decisions, ending the lengthy dispute.
In Cork the Ceres Marshall from New York Catherine Hall from New London Fletcher Pimyns from Bourdeaux George Chambwell from Portsmouth. At Bristol the Pilgrim Fisher from North Carolina. At Waterford the Manchester Macdowall from North Carolina. At Londonderry the Mary Mitchell from New York. In the Rivere the Thames Trewitt from The De Valk Heptneer from Amsterdam to Batavia. Sailed the Nymph Apfey for Africa Draper Kelly for Dublin Duchess of Cumberland Brown for Oporto Rio Hodgson for Liverpool and Adventure Ross for Gibraltar. No ships in the Downs. Wind N Dear March 1 Came down the Milford for Virginia Mary Ammon for America Flora Rising for Venice Thames Hutchings for Oporto Adventurer Steward for Bermuda Stanley Hayes St. Kitts. Now ships in the Downs. Wind N N W.
On Saturday at St Michael's FiFbury Mgr William Denning married Rebecca Blued of Cornhill. The same day at St John's Hackney Nathaniel Harden of Paddington married Miss Beach of the former place.
Obituary notices report the deaths of Samuel Clay Harvey esq at Tetbury Gloucestershire Lady Jane Cutton sitter to the Earl of Abingdon at Crofton hall Lancs and Henry Saflory resident at Bethlem Royal Hospital plus the Dowager Countess of Morton mourning her son William Joly Foure aged thirteen and the Countess Dowager of Tankersire mother to the Tanker heirs with residence in Upper Brook Street.
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