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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 25, 1791
Page
3
By order of the Lord Lieutenant and General Governor of Ireland the Parliament of Ireland prorogued from July to September next. The proclamation, dated June 8 1791 at Dublin Castle, directs both Houses to observe the new prorogation date of Tuesday September 6.
The Swedish and Portuguese courts agree to exchange ministers with Baron d xenstierna and Don Joseph Marie de Souza named plenipotentiary. Bankruptcy notices list John Holmes of Bradford, William Crompton of Liverpool, James James of Truro, Crawley of Piccadilly, with surrender dates at multiple venues. Dividends paid to Alexander Clark, John Mackerel, and William Wilson. Certificates to be granted by August 16 for several tradesmen including William Jones and John Hayes.
Reports from Windsor Great Park and Whitehall describe a royal airing with Colonel Gwynner and a grand dinner at York House. The piece notes theatre attendance waning in Paris, emigration from Canada, and Spanish naval strength while warning about peeping at ladies.
A fragmentary 1791 satire describes Miss Democracy felled by an unexpected stroke at a public festival in Birmingham honoring the French Revolution. The scene shifts to a private viewing at Fair Hill with relics mocked as republican machinery, Voltaire, Cromwell, and a wax Cromwell statue among allegorical tableaux, ending with a riotous mob decrying politics.
A furious mob burned a house to destroy the Constitution and buried its remains. The mutilated body of Miss Democracy was recovered by peaceable friends who carried the remains to Birmingham, then privately to Yorkshire Stingo, Liffon Green, and finally to Mr Parne’s Iron Bridge. The landlord holds the bridge immovable until rent is paid.
Secret Committee of the Revolution Society meets at the Crown and Anchor Strand to mourn the death of Democracy. Sir Cecil Wray reads a mournful verse lampooning Burke and Paine as Birmingham buckle-makers and scisarf-grinders threaten a riot. The scene ends with orders to proceed to the funeral at Paine's iron bridge landing and a note that Simkin must be dealt with first.
Fragment from an old newspaper piece describing a hearse procession with a mocking song about a defiant Lady and her republican brain. The verses reference Voltaire Paine and republican bones, ending with a teaser to continue in the next issue.
SCHELMSFORD MONDAY July 28 Her Majesty's Plate for fillies two miles heats Isabella by Woolbercker 4 2 Mr Waren's by Crazy 2 Magnolia by St Evenis's chief by Inspector Mayfly etc. Edinburgh Tuesday July 19 His Majesty's Purse 100 Guineas winners by Mr Barnsbay fly etc. Wednesday Noblemen and Gentlemen's Subscription Purse Windleston Country Lass won. Thursday Fifty Guineas real Hunters won by Arniston Tweedside ran off course. Friday Ladies' Purse Windleston Mars etc. Woblemen and Gentlemen's Fifty Guineas Spanker walked over.
In Scotland Gurascow and Kilbryde timbered by a heavy fifteen minute rain gave way to a brilliant sun and a serpent-like apparition moving west to east. A powerful whirlwind struck Shettleston and surrounding areas causing extensive damage, lifting a cloth, overturning animals and carts, injuring a woman and wounding many, yet no lives were lost.
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