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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 29, 1791
Page
3
The text commands payment of rewards for disclosures related to a reported raper case and names the Commissioners for executing the Treasurer of Our Exchequer. It directs actions to be taken at St James's Court on July 27, 1791, in the 31st year of the King's reign. The passage ends with God Save the King.
A list of bankruptcies, dividends and certificates with dates in August and September. Names include John Thompson of Gutter Lane London engraver to furs vender, Patrick Foreham Bristol merchant, Robert Craxford Huntingdon carrier, and others. Proceedings occur at Guildhall London and inns in Bristol Birmingham and Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
A Windsor dispatch notes the King of Prussia sending letters home and his late month plan to depart for Silesia. Reports claim Hungary’s Count Esterhazy and Prussian plenipotentiary Marquis de Lucchesini clashed and recall was sought. Emperor allegedly talked with the King of Sardinia in Alexandria. Sczifewe talks renew. armistice with the Porte extended. A large June fire in Sistria burned Turks forage. British governance praised, while critics urged loyalty. Details of St Vincent crops and army strength in Britain, Wednesbury rioters’ arrests, and Birmingham rioters’ identification follow. A Bishop of Winchester anecdote ends with a violent rebuke over dinner.
The Haymarket staged a Cotman Colman drama The Sugarsniper of Calais with cast including Eustace de St Pierre, Ribeaumond, O'Carrol, Le Blois, Mrs. Kemble and Mrs. Bland. Critics praised the acting and restrained verse, urging cuts to spare length while noting vivid famine and patriotism themes.
Rioting erupts in Sheffield after a large common is inclosed prompting attacks on the town gaol and the Duke of Norfolk's steward Eyre, with houses set aflame and soldiers firing in clashes. A letter from July 28 notes mobs freeing prisoners, burning hay stacks, and threats to the Duke’s house as authorities increase patrols amid fear of further violence.
A Sunday riot in Dublin saw a large crowd target Fleet-lane and Crownalley, burning out several low occupation houses and destroying doors and windows. Military and volunteers arrived, order restored by Monday with rioters arrested. claims of horse burnings denied.
The pageant narrates a riotous funeral procession from Tra burn to Kensington led by Paine and Priestley, denouncing tyranny and liberty’s memory. A visionary pillar near Staines commemorates Revolutions while a dispute over innate ideas sparks during the march. The body is laid to rest at a symbolic pillar with a commemorative inscription lauding republican virtues and condemning monarchy.
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