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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 07, 1791
Page
2
The Law Cause of Fox and Mackreta occupied the Lords from 2:00 to 5:30 with Queen's Attorney General Fuller speaking three and a half hours for the Appellant. The appeal from a Court of Chancery decision was adjourned to Friday.
House of Commons debates on March 7 include the Fowey Election verdict with Lord Shuldham and Sir R. Payne not duly elected and Lord Valletort and Fhri hip Rathleigh declared duly chosen. Pitt introduces Canada Bill for colonial governance. related measures for the East India Company and annuities advance. debate on trade with the United States continues.
Yesterday in Parliament Mr Ryper and Tuomas Sisere took oaths and seats in the Commons for Tiverton and Chichester. A congregation of peers including the Archbishops and Dukes filled the Lords to hear a chancery appeal, while fashion circles observed Gunning and her daughter preparing for continental life. The Lord Chancellor noted the duke’s discretion age.
Overflow from Covent Garden and the fame of The School for Scandal drew large crowds to the Drury Lane venue, filling the house last night with strong audience interest and lively chatter about the production.
The crowd at Covent Garden roared with applause for public and private entertainments. Mayzsnins and Princesses showed attention to the Woopman and his wood noces wild. Stepon and Bannister drew praise with notable airs. The Storm scene sparked gallery thunder, while Mrs Webb’s coop tunes failed to repeat their acclaim.
A royal hunt ends near Moor Park after a long chase from Langley, with the hounds returning late. Other items report bank note duty reductions, a dramatic public incident at Arundel Street, a warehouse fire at Newgate Street, and prisoner ship mutiny and contraband searches. Additional notes cover ships arriving in port, a cutter seizure in Southampton, and ships lost near Margate with two men drowned.
A process verbal from Barcellonette alleges ongoing enlistment to form an army led by Comte d Artois to march into France after spring. Deserters linked to Regiment de Moxieur, arms scarcity in Lower Alps, and neglect by the War Ministry are noted. At Strasbourg Valenciennes Metz and near Paul preparations for a camp with firearms rise. A Knight of St Louis, Marquis de Vontt, was arrested near the Queen and Dauphin, with a Swiss concealed sword found. Nobleslinked to the Court are named amid plots to kill the King. Riots at Vincennes were broken by National Guards and cavalry. Guards bar interior access to the Thuilleries. all gates sealed.
The assembly decrees no arrest for debt in the future and orders enforcement against fugitives, seeks filling vacant posts with more Constitutionally respectful individuals, and notes an ill M de Cattries in Lausanne. It passes decrees on consecration of Constitutional Bishops and replaces the ancient tax on playing cards with a licensing system for card-makers.
On January 28 1791 Harres the English minister at Warsaw presented a memorial to the Polish Committee for Foreign Affairs. He reports a declaration of sentiments from his court to the King and Republic and that the King desires renewed political and commercial ties. He notes ready definitive proposals once the Republic signals willingness and a system to prohibit the King of Prussia, citing favorable circumstances for mutual benefit. The memorial is signed Harres and dated January 28 1791.
An extraordinary Ottoman envoy arrives in the capital on the sixteenth. The procession includes Roya coaches drawn by eight horses and two six-horse b rough, twelve waggons with baggage, sixty hussars, and gifts of a large jeweled solitaire and Queen’s bracelets. Feathers emblematic of the Sultan’s dignity decorate the presents as troops guard the route. Previously exempt from ambassadorial duties, the Ottoman Court now faces abolition of that pretended distinction.
In Etland, a protracted winter since September brings ruin to crops. Harvest fails as corn and hay rot, cattle weaken, and horses and sheep die in large numbers. Yet Selkirk records an unprecedented fishing yield compensates, with grey fish sufficing for meals without bread or potatoes.
At Winchester assizes prisoners received death sentences for shootings thefts burglaries forgery and highway robbery. Names include Joseph Scivier William Weeks Thomas Thomson Thomas Ryder Samuel Leat John York Robert Campbell James Connor and James Tate Weeks Thomson and Leat were left for execution. At Northampton three prisoners were sentenced to death for burglary and sheep stealing but were reprieved before leaving town.
Worcastle records show Saturday as the day for city and county archives events with 35 prisoners slated for trial including several on capital offenses.
Journeyman cooper Matthias Williams was robbed by two men at Box Brook beyond Lath Ford turnpike on Thursday evening. They stripped him of coat, waistcoat, breeches, shoes, buckles, hat, neckerchief and a bundled wardrobe. A silver watch engraved S B and 23 guineas were taken along with other personal items. They bound his hands and eyes and warned him to stay quiet or be stabbed or cast into the brook. Later two passersby guided him back to the turnpike.
In Bristol yesterday Maxchs, Mr Calder, an apothecary of the Hot Weils, was thrown from an unruly horse and sustained a fractured skull, dying almost immediately.
Lewes reports a Friday night voyage from Brighthelm stone with eleven aboard to test a new hook fishing technique, following French methods. The crew landed more fish than the entire local fleet in a single morning, and they fear a surplus as trawls keep bringing in fish.
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