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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 04, 1791
Page
3
Saturday March Lord Chancellor attended the House and after prayers read the order for taking into consideration an appeal from Scotland. Peter Speirs was the appellant and Sir Alexander Campbell the respondent. Counsel were called. the case favored the respondent, the decree was affirmed, and the matter adjourned to Monday.
The King grants Rev Charles Manners Sutton the deanery of Peterborough Cathedral and Spencer Percival the offices of Clerk of the Iron and Surveyor of Melting houses in the Tower of London. Levee planned for the Prince of Wales on March 14. Numerous military promotions and public surrender notices list officers and civilians across multiple counties with surrender dates and locations at Guildhall and other venues.
The committee met at eleven to set preliminary orders excluding evidence as Sir Charles Bampryipe petitioners press charges against Jon. Baring. James Montford testified of attempted votes for Baring with offers of rewards. Cole and others pressed for Sir Charles Bampfylde or Buller votes. Debate over burgage tenures and ancient records concluded with the 1624 resolution binding election by inhabitants.
Paris reports M de ls Tude requests a pension after forty years in the Bastile. Prince de Coupé and Duke d'Encuien stay in Stuttgart with secretaries drafting letters. Arrests at Marmoutier involve Dufreney and son for recruiting for the Comte d'Artois. unrest and troop movements continue amid political maneuvering.
National Assembly led by M Noailles as chair with about 186 deputies voting for him though 1,200 originally attended. Camus claimed four millions of assignats burned and eight millions more to be condemned. A new Constitutional Bishop was announced by La Nievre department, while another sat with Jacobins to applaud their work.
Monarchs arrive from Windsor Lodge and plan a Covent Garden appearance while hunting in Windsor Park. Dividends list sparks potential lawsuits. naval ships drop to St Helens before NW Coast voyage. Opera houses may merge. fashion shifts with boots in boxes draw complaints about ladies’ attire.
February 28 reports heated debates in the Assembly over sovereignty exercised by representatives, with Pethion Robespierre and allies opposing limits on municipalities and illegalizing Paris and provincial clubs. Mirabeau denounces dictatorial measures, pleads for liberty, and warns of oath breach if such laws pass. motion postponed for eight days.
In a London case at Guildhall on March 3 the plaintiff claimed damages after riding a horse near the Green Man on Oxford Road. A burst pipe allegedly caused the horse to sink into the street, injuring the mare and rendering it useless. Defendants allegedly knew of the pipe’s disrepair two days prior but failed to fix it. Jury returned verdict for the plaintiff for 35.
The case concerns Captain Rees of the Northumberland and the defendants, eminent wine merchants, with the plaintiff having bought thirty chests of claret sent to the East Indies and returned as bad. The jury found for the defendants after a hard fought trial led by Erskine Mingdy for the plaintiffs and Bearcroft Baldwin Parker for the defendants. The trial closed Saturday with several juries remaining untried due to circuit duties.
A miscellany notes fortunes of women in India and court intrigues in Paris Languedoc insurrections and French political decrees The Avignon federation and succession rules The Emperor’s crackdown on Free Masonry poetry prize on Aboriginals of Britain Shakespearean quips and a Kent highwayman accident Cock-throwing on Shrove Tuesday condemned Duke of Montrost appoints Joan Grimtpray as chaplain Mail coach accident with a blood mare incident
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