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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 06, 1791
Page
4
A vivid night scene aboard a vessel shows a beauteous virgin on deck with auburn hair streaming to the wind. The description likens her to Venus and Eos as ambrosial perfumes fill the air and the sea music rises in softer tones.
The article discusses delays in the Warsaw Diet due to mail irregularities and praises current reforms. It warns against sedition, lauds judges independence and jury rights, and critiques political clubs as unfit to shape national plans. It contrasts Britain’s stable Parliament with French rule by a cartoonish Club.
Second reading of Mr Foxs Bill on juries power in libel cases and a motion on Russia negotiations open the day. Writ issued for Milbourne Port by Mr Roses warrant. Secretary of State vacancy unlikely until Russia dispute settles. Possible thirty new baronets after Parliament. Corn Bill must receive Royal Assent by tomorrow as export import laws expire Friday.
The China trade is thriving with English manufactures in demand and cottons deemed superior. Fur shipments to China fetch high prices. Spaniards dominate Northwest Coast trade, restricting private ventures. An American ship and a Bombay vessel report fur values of 118000 and 68000 dollars respectively. A mutinous capture near Oxhyhee resulted in all aboard being killed. Several India ships prepare for Northwest America trade.
In Petersburg yesterday the Envoy Extraordinary M de Hoccurg met the Vice Chancellor Count d Ostermann and will have audience with the Empress. The Turkish minister urged immediate Porte aid and influenced allied powers toward a strict status quo. Russian fleets and armies mobilize with Cronstadt and Revel forward, Livonia’s army near the Don, and 20006 more troops marching to join. The King of Sweden faces a decisive conduct.
The Ruffian Navy gains a key aid as British officers resign. Baltic forces in Livonia, remnants of anti Sweden troops, are to be joined by a 20,000 man reinforcement along the Dung banks. En route is a Swedish king rumoured to visit Berlin but likely to Aix la Chapelle about the 26th. Political turmoil in Porand sees diets clash and foreign powers influence succession, with Charles XII of Sweden dethroning and restoring kings. Navy commissioners order a new 18 gun sloop at Deptford, using timber from the New Forest for testing.
The first issue of this illustrated project features five large prints and five smaller ones drawn from Shakespearean subjects. The engravings are praised for their beauty and precise, bold execution, with the undertaking described as a noble tribute to national art and culture.
A long dispatch notes the burial of the late Bishop of Durham in the Temple Chapel with the Master of the Temple and mourners Sir Tomas Duypas and Serjeant Runnington. It also covers naval movements at Spithead, a death at Drury Lane, and various crime and robbery reports from London and surrounding areas.
State of betting from Newmarket lists even bets for the Derby with Vermin and other contenders across the field. Bets against various horses include Lord Egremont for the Derby and Duke of Bedford's Volunteer Ally for the Oaks, with odds quoted for multiple runners including fidget, Sting filly, David, and Buzzard.
Portmouth dispatches report orders to complete ships under Lord Hoop with four months stores. Rear Admiral Leveson Gower arrived yesterday and hoisted flag aboard the Formidable. This morning the Arethusa sailed from St Helens for Jamaica. Obituary notes the death of Joseph Rawlins known as the pit preacher who served as a Methodist revivalist among collier communities since 1749. He was blind and worked as a miner, giving most earnings to aid his audience.
Shipping news lists vessels arriving from London Leghorn and other ports. Ships include William and Hannah Giles from London Dublin arrivals Frederic Mucket from Leghorn and Betley Boucher Fanny Prowting from London alongside others in Cork Guernsey Havre de Grace Dover Constantinople Londonderry Jersey Leith New Orleans and more with crews, cargos and origins noted. Winds northerly and northeast, with several ships remaining in the Downs.
Married Thursday at St Pancras Church Captain W Lucas wed Miss Charlotte Abrams. Earlier Thomas Papillen of Acrife Kent married Miss Anne Pelham daughter of Henry Pelham commissioner of his Anjetty s Cutt ns.
Miss Charlotte Sarah Hammond daughter of the late Leonard Hammond and sister to the Speaker of the House of Commons died on Saturday afternoon in Bristol at the Hat Wells aged 22. High water this day at London Bridge, Maxaine Tenin after six afternoon.
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