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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 08, 1791
Page
4
A humorous mock prose piece critiques taste and manners across generations, contrasting old and new fashions. The narrator recalls his grandmother and peers, mocking the pomp of bygone elites, while hinting at satirical portraiture of the drawing room and caricature trade. It ends urging gentle approval of the artist's aim to please while preserving humane feeling.
The piece urges liberty and warns against rash leaders and French decrees. It contrasts the French New Constitution with natural forest order and royal authority, criticizing revolutionaries and urging prudence and submission to lawful rule. It invokes emperors, princes, and religious authorities as guardians of stability.
A sermon rails against meddling politicians and priestly emissaries, urging calm wisdom over riotous action. It stresses that true disciples keep their hearts on heavenly treasure and insist Christ’s kingdom is not of this world, warning ministers to mind their own business.
The week’s only public days at St James’s are the King’s Levees on Wednesday and Friday. Dispatches arrived from Lord Auckland at The Hague and letters from India report Tippoo Sultan’s peace overtures rejected by Lord Cornwallis as he advances toward Seringapatam. Ships Discovery and Chatham leave Teneriffe for the Pacific amid bad weather. crews remain healthy. A clergy regulation will allow the non resident incumbent’s curate to live rent free in the parsonage. Madame Du Barri’s past influence with the French King yielded heavy demands and large drafts from financiers. The Earl of Exeter lies dangerously ill at Burleigh House. his heir is Mr. Croit, recently the subject of divorce talk. The Countess of Huntingdon is interred in white silk for a chapel opening. Rev. Dr. Coxe arrives in Philadelphia and will assume duties. A method to preserve French beans and other vegetables from frost is shared. A woman is brought before the Lord Mayor for stealing a child, committed for further examination. A Haymarket scene ends with a bailiff’s writs leading to a clash with a man wearing a cockade.
June 183 The day before yesterday news from Szistove says the Barons Herrert and Esterhazy plan return to Bucharest after the Conference appears interrupted. Austrian deputies may quit over peace terms as Turkish demands end the armistice. Military mobilization accelerates. Regiments ready, Danube fleet pages embargoed, Cobourg urged to return to command. Hungarians eager for renewed war and the dissolution of the Reichenbach convention.
Thomas Watsa, convicted counterfeiter, was executed between noon and one o clock. He died proclaiming innocence and asked the crowd to forgive him as he faced the hanging, aided by Rev Dr Keatine, Catholic missionary. He bid farewell with calm resolve and showed no fear, signaling his readiness with a cap drawn over his face.
The Sally Anderson sails London to Africa and is left on the Barbary coast with crew saved. A race day incident at Working ton sees Mrs Turnbull recover spoons once stolen in 1786 and returned in a jug of water. In Liverpool a chaise driver drowns after washing horses in the river. carriage and cushions wash away and the body is recovered nearby.
Circe frigate under Captain Oakes arrives from the Downs with pressed men. Vulcan fireship sails at night, a frigate cruises this afternoon. French schooner bound for Havre de Grace and French officers landless at Spithead. Sloop Thomas and Ann master Thomas Ireleven drowns after being struck by the main boom. July 10 arrival of Childers with 463 casks of spirits and tobacco. John and Phoebe and Batchelor from London also arrive.
The Mary and Taylor arrived from Guernsey and Virginia aboard his Majesty's ship Andromeda during a cruise. The Belle Dories, commanded by Austry, sailed for Marseilles.
Ships arrive and depart from multiple ports including London Grenada Jamaica and Virginia with vessels named Argrivars Flyn Alexander Shaw Jupiter Fullerton Ranger Pettigrew Catharine Cleveland Fame and more. Admiralty ships Ardent Triton and Weazel continue river service as winds shift. Marital notice trades and clergy wedding names included.
The column records multiple deaths including James Foundes a debt prisoner in Newrate who died after a fit, Joseph Birke nurseryman at Brompton, John Bennett of Fenchurch-street, George Bowman of Lombard-street, and others in Hollow Worcestershire York Aramstone Herefordshire Plymistock Clapton Easham Hall Cirencester and more. It also lists stock prices with Bank Stock 3 per Cent and India Bonds and Irish Lottery Tickets among others.
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