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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 04, 1791
Page
4
A political column argues for freedom of worship and toleration while defending the Church Establishment. It criticizes dissenters and calls for reform of penal laws against Roman Catholics, urging adherence to a liberal, constitutional path and cautioning leaders against pandering to dissenting factions.
Their Majesties will attend a grand naval review at Portsmouth in May, preparations already under way. Dispatches for Mapras and Curna by Earl Cornwalls with House of Commons resolutions in support of the war against Tippoo Sultain closed and delivered to Purser on the ship. William Perris, Esq. a Council member, proceeds to Fort St George. Right Hon. Duprey Ryver re-elected MP for Piverton.
Business of Parliament for the Week in the House of Lords outlines appeals by Mackreth y and Foy, with upcoming sessions today and tomorrow, a Scotch Peers election on Saturday, and law causes to be addressed Thursday.
This day in the House of Commons features the second reading of the Hereford Canal Bill and the American Intercourse Bill committee. Tomorrow includes a ballot on the Barnstaple Election Petition and the Birmingham Canal Bill petition. Wednesday covers the Felons Employment Bill report and committees on Supply and Ways and Means. Thursday has the Newark Election Petition ballot, the Corn Bill committee, and the Mutiny Bill with Livery Stable Keepers’ move. Friday sees the Sugar Duty Bill committee and continued Supply and Ways and Means work plus the African Slave Trade committee. Several witnesses are ordered to attend. We also note Paris intelligence presented without verification.
The article reports the dispersion of the States General after a mob drove them from the House of Assembly. It notes the arrest of a knight calling himself the Marquis de Court, wit a poignard found on him and his links to court nobles. It also covers talks on the Canada Bill, the Scottish and British peers voting, Russian empress preparations, and troop movements to Quebec and Gibraltar. It ends with local notices from Oxford and Bury about trials, executions, accidents, and a drowning.
The article details a 3,600,000 guilder loan run 25 years with a 15 year balloon by Lottery. Bonds of 1000 guilders, trust control by six nobles including Dukes Port Lane Nort Hunser Lawn and Earl Fitz, with revenues pledged to sinking funds. A 5 percent interest begins Feb 1 1791, paid semiannually. Also notes 1.8 million dollars in casks landed at Dover for Great Peninsular asylum seekers and death sentences for sheep stealing at Reading, later reprieved.
The entry lists multiple prize numbers and amounts for two days of the English state lottery. It notes prizes above twenty-five pounds and includes several ticket numbers such as 44483 1551 9596 10325 23753 49997 46920 and 8964 39654 20384 35654 36305 41749 with corresponding prize values. The wording reflects prize allocations per draw and day.
The ticket No. 48,476 drawn today won a prize of Twenty Thousand Pounds and was registered at Hazard and Co Office Royal Exchange. Also sold today were No. 8,273 with a prize of Ten Thousand Pounds in combined shares and No. 34,867 with a prize of Twenty Four Thousand Pounds in mixed shares.
The Joseph Read from Trepany and the De Vrow Johanna Maack from Rotterdam for Barcelona have entered Portsmouth harbor with seven feet of water in their holds and must unload part or all of their cargo. The Maria Clear sails for Havre de Grace.
Arrived ships Susannah and Rebecca from Waterford and Bury cutter from a cruise. Sailed vessels include William and Elizabeth Hart Mary Bruce and Two Brothers bound for London and Amsterdam, and his Majesty's ship Swiftsure of 74 guns to Spithead.
The Downs Duke of Clarence with Lewis from Dublin and Pandora Major from Memel sail. Portsmouth sees Joseph Read from Treany De Vrow Johanna Maack bound for Barcelona. Echo Pinder from St Vincent’s Liberty Kemp from Virginia Fly Jones from L Orient. Various ships arrive and depart including Duke of Clarence, Active, Mediator, and Pigeon with cargoes to Philadelphia Newfoundland Africa Virginia and Waterford. Wind W by N.
On Saturday at Davry Lane the piece The Siege of Belgrade headlines with The Romp as the evening offering. Also shown is The School for Scandal and The Woodman with The Maid of the Oaks alongside The Woodman at Coven Ganpen tonight.
On Friday William Gray Esq of Condorrat Scotland wed Blanc Jane Adams of Carrigar Street Chancery Lane. On Saturday John Townsend Esq of Wandsworth Surrey married Mrs Henrietta Bulstrode daughter of the late Richard Bulstrode of Hounslow.
Obituaries note the death of Rev William Purkis PD DFS A former Whitehall preacher and Magdalen College tutor, plus William Clarke of Ipswich and Robert Pardoe QC among Lincoln’s Inn notices. Also listed are brief stock prices with bonds and annuities, morning and noon lottery tickets, and various financials.
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