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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 01, 1791
Page
4
In this evening mail excerpt Laura laments despair from love’s torments and seeks peace in wilds, while a lover Damon counsels joy and social pleasure. Laura contemplates solitude but vows to confide again, and Damon’s persuasive plea shifts her toward seeking bliss with him. The fragment centers on emotional conflict and renewed trust in romance.
A respected source says the Empress has agreed to Allied terms for peace with the Turks, conveyed to Petersburgh officials on June 8. Also notes mail packets from Falmouth to Halifax New York and Barbadoes Jamaica, mutiny on Albemarle to Botany Bay, convicts hanged, and Swedish iron and deal imports through Hull.
News from Madrid reports the Court expresses willingness to settle merchants losses from Nootka. Commissioners Emanuel de la Sierras and Sir Raven Wooprorp are to assess damages and potential profits, with a third arbiter if they disagree. Meeting slated for month end.
This day a grand meeting of archers from various parts of the kingdom will convene at Hitchinhill near Rudgeley. The Earl of Uxsrrpex Lord Pacet and Mr Curzon will direct the diversions with the Price of Wales expected to attend. His Royal Highness will reside at the Earl of Uxsrippe's seat.
At Ascot Heath on Friday a Plate for 4 to 6 year olds and aged horses featured two mile heats. Javelin faced Gunpowder in a hot contest with narrow margins and heavy betting before heat two. The old mile and tandem events followed with strong performances from Tandem and Melampigus as Bag shot and Yavelin clashed in a tight race.
Extract from a letter dated Santa Cruz Teneriffe May 10 1791 describes a thirty day passage to the island hindered by baffling winds. A sailor clash with Spanish guards near the wharf left Capt Vancouver and Mr Pitt in a boat escape and a midshipman injured. The party plans to sail to the Cape of Good Hope next, with a possible stop at the Sandwich Islands.
Saturday dispatches from General Boyd report ships from the Streights bound for London and a well supplied Gibraltar garrison. Horse Guards remove seditious papers, Kingfisher runs ashore near Queenborough. Welsh Bards prize medals awarded to David Thomas and David Owen. A counter-revolutionary mood stirs Europe while war with the Turks endures. Over 120 days disrupted in Thatcham parish by vestry actions. A Leith marriage yields 132 years combined age. Rev Thomas Hartland Fowle installed to Yorkshire vicarages by the Archbishop of York.
The Duke of Gloucester and suite viewed the fleet from the Platform and Queen's Battery at Portsmouth, with Admirals Hood Hotham and Colby presented on the Grand Parade. They toured the Victory and Hannibal, salutes fired, and Prince William of Gloucester returned to London as others stayed. A wave of arrivals includes Lords Aylmer Augustus Fitzroy Montagu Coutts Sawbridge Forbes and others. A proposed Royal George project offers 70,000 pounds if successful. Lapwin frigate ordered for Gibraltar Dardanelles and Constantinople runs noted. Inconstant frigate failed at Spithead. Eliza Swan reaches Montrose with seven good fish.
The Neptune Greenlandman was wrecked near May 23 when two immense ice floes collided, slicing the vessel in five minutes. The crew escaped onto the ice and were rescued by the ship Bounty of Leith, which had narrowly escaped a similar fate.
Ship news from Dover Liverpool Portsmouth Gibraltar Falmouth Bristol Africa Salem Poole Antigua New York Jamaica Dominica and Barbadoes list ships and origins with occasional arrivals and departures. Included are marriages and several obituaries noting ages and familial ties alongside financial rates and bond listings.
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