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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 30, 1792
Page
4
Poem excerpt dated July 1792. speaker pleads for constancy to Carlos amid thwarted passion. Keeps nature imagery of mountains, valleys, dawn, and evening. Expresses longing, vow, and the offer of steadfast friendship if romantic love fails.
Reports from Whitehall note Sir Rupert Murray Kerry and clerical transfers including Rev George Martin to Broad Windsor Vicarage Dorset. A private letter from the Rockingham describes mutinous recruits plotting to seize the ship for a Turkish port. Captain Bransaard quashed the plan with armed crew. Officials discuss Crown estates value and a 200,000l yearly income projection. A Hounslow Powder Mill explosion injures no workers beyond the mill's destruction.
Sporting Intelligence from Leith reports a series of purse events over several days with Hamiltons Lauderdale and Bairds Ratler contesting. Lauderdale reportedly won two fifty and one hundred guineas purses as crowds clashed, leading to vandalism and a rain-swept disruption before calm returned.
The college event lists speakers known for stirring orations. Cicero passages, Demosthenes, Virgil, Milton and Shakespeare works are read as early applause invitees. Attendance was strong and the youths conducted themselves with credit.
The Office of the Paymaster General grants 183 days pay to garrisons in Great Britain from June 2 1791 to December 24 with six months fire and candle allowance. A Lord Mayor order raises bread prices by 2d per peck starting tomorrow. A cross country canal project is proposed from Braunston to London linking Cheshire to the metropolis. Richmond Gardens open Sundays and Kew Gardens open Mondays. An Edinburgh festival awarded bagpipe prizes to Yoba Mackay Allan M Donald and John MGregor with premium money and a father and others receive medals. executions take place at Newgate for Lightowler King Keeling Mead. a respite extends to next month for Robert Houghton.
A subscription plan aims to erect a statue of Sir Richard Axkwri Gut in Grosvenor Square Manchester. The report notes an elderly couple entering the poorhouse after 70 years together, a severe thunderstorm near Chorley with property damage but no deaths, barracks planned near Sheffield for 200 cavalry, and various thefts and trials in Leeds York and Richmond. It also covers a York drowning incident, a rescues tale, a Birmingham warehouse fire with a gunpowder blast, and a Lewes wool fair record-high prices with historic context.
Reports from town drivers describe extensive damage from Sunday rains to hay and grain stocks, with roads and ditches flooded. In Bow Street, Mr Purcell posted bail after an assault on Westminster scholars. A clerk eloped with bank notes, and Gloucester Affizes sentenced two men to death for stealing bank notes before reprieves. Thefts continue with a trunk and household items stolen from Crescent Place.
The readable text lists nautical or aristocratic titles and names such as Capt. Seymigur Lord and Lady Seymour Baron Carnock and Capt. Luttrell along a July date, with partial phrases indicating a formal meeting or procession and unclear references to persons and places.
The Fame, a revenue cutter, pursued and captured a large American built bark off Newfoundland. It carried two tons of tea, one ton of coffee, and sixty bags of hyson tea. The vessel has been active in smuggling for five years and was taken to Fyal.
Seafaring notices report arrivals and sailings of multiple ships including the Burgon, Schou, York, and Expedition with captains named, plus cargo movements at Newfounlande, Jamaica, Barbadoes, Cork, and Barbardos. Obituaries note the death of Rev. Jonathan Green and other mournful notices. market reports cover grain prices, market activity, and currency as of Monday.
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