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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 06, 1791
Page
4
The fragment presents a Shakespearean style meditation on Queen and realm from Ric. II. The speaker notes a prophecy tone about the Queen’s fate, asking where her husband and peers have vanished and lamenting the crown’s burdens. The passage ends with a stage direction hinting at an act from Ric. II.
A poem praising William Pitt the Younger, styled as tributes from Cirencester. It extols Pitt as the nation’s beast and the Senate’s Pride, lauds his justice, learning, and steady leadership, and invokes Roman parallels with Scipio and Fabius. It urges firmness against populist clamour and narrates Britannia’s confidence in his guiding hand.
A London fragment reports a Friday Levee at St James's and the royal return to Windsor Lodge. It mocks the National Assembly threats, previews Burke’s new work, and notes the French Revolution’s brutal events in Paris with fireworks tragedy and a deadly powder mill explosion in Ewell, Surrey.
The passage argues that natural rights justify dethroning rulers and committing violent acts, comparing the speaker to Cromwell Nero Brutus Paine and supporting actions to burn cities, murder kin, undermine religion, and topple institutions. It warns that unrestricted liberty leads to anarchy and calls for lawful constraint to protect society.
A Financial Times style digest notes the National Assembly's three days of discussions on minor matters, denies depose King or imperial messages, reports shipping delays of box packets, and sketches a charged view of France's civil conflict. It references Fawxowner and Fanskrener at Petersburg, ball dances, and cautions about constitutional reform. The piece imagines armies, zeal, and future victories.
LAW REPORT. KING'S BENCH WESTMINSTER Harrer v Kar an action on a bill of exchange. Erskine obtained a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted. Pigot argued against the rule as Lord Kenyon announced plans to proceed with new trials on Saturday and Monday next. The case is deemed worth careful consideration and should not be postponed.
In this case Kine v Sainsbury and another, Alderman Sainsbury and a co-defendant faced misfeasance charges for licensing victuallers in Southwark. An agreed special verdict of guilty was prepared. the application sought to amend by replacing words to include undisputed facts. Lord Kenyon urged not to fight over shadows, and the Court granted a rule to show cause to amend the verdict.
The prosecution moved for judgment against the defendant Sampson Perry in a libel matter. Mr Ey Rine examined Perry on recognizance, but he did not answer. Lord Kenyon ordered the recognizance to be entreat. The court adjourned at half past eleven.
Lord Loughborough and the County of Essex were before the Court of Exchequer. The Lord Chief Baron delivered the unanimous opinion that the certiorari to bring up the record of the fine imposed on the county should be quashed. The county must now plead to the writ.
A large meeting of landholders in St Marys Lincolnshire unanimously resolves to petition Parliament to enclose their Common and Marth Lands to which they hold rights. News notes various minor items including a Sussex return, a forgery case, a tree turned metal at Foundling Hospital, French civil war concerns, a fatal throat-slashing at Kennington, a Pope quotation wager letter, a Gloucester burglary, and several London ships bound for Newfoundland and Cape de Verd Islands.
Listings of vessels arriving and sailing from ports including Lancaster Liverpool Dover Virginia Bristol Newfoundland Oporto Hamburg Maryland and Barbadoes with captains origins and routes. Notable names include Venus Louther Thetis Mary Ann Nancy and Leith with cargoes from Jamaica Portugal Newfoundland and Britain. BIRTH on Monday at May Fair palace house a daughter to the Right Honourable Viscountess Bayhain.
Yesterday Thomas Breach of Paternoster Row wed Miss Donne of Norwich. Earlier in Ireland William Reynell eldest son of John Reynell of Cattle Reynell wed Miss Montgomery daughter of the late Sir William Montgomery Baronet. A fortnight since Reverend B Thirkins of Ross Herefordshire married Mills Werthey niece to the Countess of Conyngham. On Thursday in Hull John Green merchant elder of Trinity House married Mrs Moore widow of the late Mr Moore trader of Hull.
Obituaries record the death of Hon. Wim Bull at 81 in Bloomsbury, Sime Duberly of Easham Hall, Mrs Rose Wricht aged 64 at Waltham Abbey, Samuel Windsor Harris in Jermyn Street, and Sir Rowland Alston Bart at Odle Castle Bedfordshire. Also notes a Dublin death of Mrs Anderson, and a Lady Champneys death near Calais. Mail arrivals listed from Holland Dublin Flanders Waterford. Stock prices, bonds, and lottery tickets shown, and a London Bridge time entry for water his day.
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