This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 16 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 10, 1791
Page
4
The article describes the Carnival kickoff with wild displays and costumes. It notes 38 participants in a fantastical crowd with dishes, rope-dancers, mountebanks, judges, and clergy in disguise. Nunneries and relics are metaphorically freed, priests and monks parodying religious roles.
Wednesday afternoon letters from France and Folland arrive with continental news but not delivered in time. Topics include unclaimed dividends in the Court of Chancery, a Denmark alliance talking point, Russia and the Porte mediation, and Britain’s need for a Baltic port. Reports cover revenue, navy listings, European trade, travel, promotions, and social bequests. ship surveys include Captain Vancouver and Kamischetka.
Old Bailey heard Seba Gardnert indicted for feloniously marrying Sarah Holt at St George Hanover Square on the 8th of September while his first wife Ann Gardner was alive. Sarah Painter testified to the earlier marriage at St Martin's in the Fields on the last day of July 1787. Other witnesses proved the second marriage at St George's Hanover Square in September. First wife named Ann Barge. Thomas Hornby to be tried for feloniously marrying Ann Hardcastle in May last, and Mary Symmonds in September last. About 73 prisoners to be tried this Sessions, with several highway robberies and burglaries noted as most interesting.
Portland report describes a night gale sinking a smugglers’ vessel off Bill of Portland with hundreds of tubs of brandy and tea. only an infant and a woman survived. A daybreak rescue attempt failed as the boat sank. Also noted are deaths of Mr Lear and a burglary suspect, Peter Owen, in London area. Owen captured and jailed at Bow Street.
A Captain Jones, frugal with debts, meets Browne who reveals he is to be heir to General Skelton. The General died, leaving Jones as heir if he takes the Skelton name. He gains wealth then dies in a Cumberland lead mine. His son lives at Pap Castle. his daughter married the current Lord Cornwallis but died in America.
A fragmented sonnet praising the Lord Mayor for civic honor, linking arts and fame. It references Shakespeare and the Arts weaving a wreath, noting the painterly picture of life with night and day, and the enduring virtue of the mayor. The incomplete text blends reverence with literary allusions.
Plymouth reports captains of guardships issuing handbills seeking able seamen to enlist aboard. The Boyne of 98 guns under Capt Bowyer and the Fame of 74 guns under Commodore Colby are paid off, while a barge carrying naval stores drifted away in a gale. The forty four gun ship and frigate stay in Cowland Bay as Dutch Haft Indiaman and outward bound vessels wait for fair winds. Weather tempestuous with violent gales and thunder. Ships Friends and Wancy arrive from Teneriffe and Ostend arriving at Plymouth.
Lieutenant Parker of Ulysses is assigned to the Gorgon bound for Botany Bay with convicts. Porting-bills seek sailors for the Fleet of Observation and guardships at Portsmouth. The Spithead gale damaged maincraft. a Custom-House boat was wrecked and two men hurt. A marriage occurred aboard Cap tain Bower to Miss Geep of Clapham. Ships arrived and departed for port and Blyth’s Nook. a Formidable seaman was executed aboard Hector at Spithead.
A Dutch boy seen in distress near Newport Isle of Wight as a船 strikes a sunken rock two miles from shore. Despite massed rescue efforts by many on land, the vessel sinks in deep water and all hands perish before witnesses.
A report notes that despite the Moner being tried and jailed, the fair remains unsafe. It cites recent atrocious incidents including an assault on Mrs. Ivers, wife of Man's Mercer, Whitehall Yard, Drury Lane, who was attacked in Wyche Street while pregnant and died of mortification from the blow. She was buried in Blackfriars churchyard last Wednesday.
Early Tuesday a watchman directed a person to a midwife when a woman, carrying a bundle in her lap, dropped the body of a newborn child. The infant showed no injuries. The woman refused to explain, and both were taken to Clerkenwell Bridewell for examination.
The text extols a public lottery proposal by HORNSBY and Co of Corfi hill promising to pay the full prizes for each Adventurer without discount. It emphasizes prompt, indepth payment of all tickets and shares when drawn, presenting it as generous and noble.
A Bath arrival lists Earl Galway Lord Conyngham and numerous titled ladies and gentlemen plus clergy and officers. The long roster includes Lady Eyre, Lady Carolit Herbert, Sir John Millers, Major Gakes, Captains Le Monte and Weir, Archdeacon Smith, Rev Dr Parr, Mr Digby, Mrs Perenesti, Miss Cooke, Miss Youngs, and many others, reflecting a high society gathering with diverse names and titles.
Dover and Plymouth arrivals list vessels from Virginia Lisbon Tenerife and London with captains such as Hill Daniel Mudge and Leake. Ships sail for Madeira Seville Mogadore Jamaica Barbados and Virginia. fleet remains with several ships continuing to river and Atlantic routes.
On Monday evening the Lady of John Drummond Esq Ranke at Charing-cross is reported to have given birth at his house in New Street Gardens to a son and heir. The birth is noted as a spring occasion with lineage to the Drummond family.
A garbled list of marriage banns and notices lists multiple couples and venues including Miss Konus of Portman-Tillare, Miss Maxwell of Bury Street, and Miss Williams of Dublin, with preachers and clerical figures. Also mentions Rev. Mr. micy of Langnor and Rev. Henry Sawbridge, plus vows at Chatham and Donaghadee. Includes stock market snippets and other items such as 107-year-old James Cree and Gibraltar ship references.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.