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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 01, 1793
Page
1
A notice calls Alderman Anderson to meet friends at Endon Coffee House Ludgate Hill Tuesday evening at seven o'clock. The item includes various maritime and colonial passages about Captain Bligh, New Zealand discovery, Otaheite, and Tartars tomb legends with multiple named ships and figures.
An 18 December 1792 letter chronicles the voyage of the Providence and Assistance ships from Teneriffe to the Cape then to Adventure Bay. The account notes provisions, delays from baffling winds, a steady breeze in February, and the crew in good health during landfall.
Explorers in a northern Siberian desert uncover three ancient vaults containing a prince on a gold leaf bier with royal regalia, a horse and saddle, and a separate tomb of a woman with chain necklaces. Local lore says neighbors have long sought treasure among ashes and bones.
In a criminal conversation suit, Benjamin Walker, a plumber, sues blacksmith Stevens after his wife eloped with Stevens for three months. Witnesses recount marriage on November 10, 1776, and living together as husband and wife from July 19 to November 17. The wife cried when confronted. Stevens admits taking her to the jury and that Walker lent his wife for three months. A defense claims consent to cohabit and a child born from their bond.
In Cheap side London a calico printer sues Mr Barret to recover 75 pounds for goods sold and delivered in 1734. The India cottons were disfigured discoloured with holes and rents and rotten texture. Witnesses dispute if with all faults covers rotten fabric. jury finds for plaintiff for 75 pounds 10s 8d.
Yarmouth reports a Dunkirk privateer named Cuftine commanded by Thimas Boilleau with 27 men and six guns was taken off Aldborough by the Savage sloop of war under Alexander Frazer. The vessel sailed from Dunkirk last Saturday and was captured Sunday. French prisoners were escorted to gaol by Last Suffolk militia. Also noted is the British King of Newcastle with 26 keels of coal, damaged near Cockle to the Navigator, leading to drownings and a rescue at sea near Caister.
Report from Portsmouth on February 23 describes the Dove of Peale narrowly escaping capture after a French privateer pursued it. The Greyhound cutter intervened, forcing the privateer to withdraw. The Dove had 100 tons of spirits aboard and was brought into port amid other inconsistent lines about ships and captures.
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