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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 18, 1791
Page
4
A political essay argues for proportional partitions of Turkish Europe to avoid endless European wars. It opposes enlarging any single power and favors multiple independencies. It criticizes France, Russia, Austria, and urges concrete guarantees to prevent future wars.
Continental intelligence notes asylum for French exiles in a town with frequent meetings of Procureurs Generaux and emigrants. Reports mention plans supporting the Prince of Condé, and troop mobilization by 30,000 under the Grand Army. Notices from Stockholm Genoa and Rome cover diplomacy, naval orders, and political deaths including Lomellini, Palesicci, Bernis, and Riccardelli.
Daily listings from the House of Lords and Commons detailing committee names bills petitions and election ballots. Mentions include the Estate Bill Committee Clerks of Office Bill Sugar Bill and various election petition sittings with named MPs and regions such as Lauder Dumfries and Sierra Leone Peninsula.
Mutiny the East India Annuity the American Intercourse and the Land Tax receive Royal Assent in the Lords by Commission. Royals depart from Buckingham Palace to Windsor. Victualling Office contracts for ships at Portsmouth Chatham Nore Sheerness Black Stakes River Thames Gravesend Sea Reach and Downs. Duke of Clavence to command a division in the Portsmouth Fleet with Mr. Kears as Sailing Captain. Bank halves annual dividend to five percent, warrants April 6. West India Merchants urge military aid to protect plantations amid slave trade tensions. Smuggling of teas by American vessels and Dunkirk onward undermines revenue, with evasion by foreign-bottom consignments.
Port noted last night as His Majesty's ship Cultopen under Lieutenant Hills arrived at Spithead from Plymouth, followed this morning by the Navy Transport Pope from Deptford.
Around noon two transports with Portsmouth convicts bound for Botany Bay signaled the Atlantic Salamander and William and Mary in Cawland Bay. The Druid Andromeda Syren frigates sailed on a cruise while Romulus remained eastward. Winchelsea and Lord Hawkesbury stay in the bay with Perseus otherwise in the Sound for Bengal. John Strathan arrived from Cork and Ranger cutter, Start Rail and Peggy Lemon sailed to London, Lord Hawkesbury to India.
Mr Forbes seeks committal on his place bill while Mr Mason opposes. Debates run past midnight. divisions fail to conclude. Election Bill second reading denied 137 to 75. Major Hobart presents liquor license bill detailing licensing rules and strict hours. second reading set for Friday.
Positive orders have been dispatched from the Secretary of State to Lieutenant King at Plymouth for the fleet bound to Botany Bay to miss the first fair wind. They will stop at Madeira six days. no one may land. Transports with provisions and 220 convicts sail from Ireland on the 16th to call at Madeira and await ships from England. Portsmouth letters say all frigates except one parted from the fleet Thursday night. Revenue Cutters were placed under the Port Admiral on Friday. two armed Brigs were towed out at low water. a general press was expected. Vancouver’s Discovery is at Falmouth. Mr. Pitt, son of Lord Camelford, sails as Midshipman on board, determined on a sea life despite friends and past suffering. The Glorious Decree case may curb fashionable spending by hardening stock money, though stockholders’ addresses matter. Mr Bagrac’s witness in Exeter election was jailed for gross prevarication.
The notice outlines prize numbers and amounts from a state lottery on its thirty third and thirty fourth days, mentioning prizes of twenty thousand pounds, specific numbers like 491495 36222 and 21007, and sales through Royal Union Bank and SHERcoLD and Co. It reports a half-receipt sold to Mr. Barnes and a capital sum of ten thousand pounds for six guineas, with the stamped share purchased through Mr. Joan Johnson.
A sequence of sailing arrivals and departures lists ships and captains: from Dublin the Mercury and Exuma from Jamaica. in St Michael's the William from London. in Jamaica the Lord Rodney and Henry from London. Land's End the Triumph from Newer. Falmouth the Syren from Zant. in the Downs the Sally from Jamaica and the Sovereign with multiple arrivals from Charleston St. Thomas's Virginia and the South seas. at Dover Arky Pearce from Jamaica. in the River the Mentor from Lisbon with other vessels including Pearl ships from America and Malaga. at Livernoole King People and Iris from Jamaica. at Lymington Juno from St Michael's and Patuxent Planter from Charleston. Falmouth Holbrook from Philadelphia. Cork lord Charlemont from Charleston. Mary Mahony from Bourdeaux. Nancy Haley from London. Kitty Fisher from L Orient. Wind SW. Arrivals and sailings listed for the River. Remaining ships raft Kent Harding India Monmouth Wats Jamaica Supply Merrito Barbadoes Planter Caitor for Barbadoes Montgomery Bangor New York Minerva Rock Halifax Perseverance Atkinson Virginia Worcester Halliday Honduras Mary Richardson Waterford General Elliot Brown Portsmouth Dispatch Jones ork.
A sequence of marriages listed: R Wilson of Travellyng near Chester weds Mrs Hicks of Kensington S Square. John Grosvenor of Oxford weds Mrs Parsons, relict of the late Dr Parsons, at Chatham. Capt Pigot RN weds Miss Proby of Lime Dock Yard. Sacheverell Pole of Radborne weds Miss Mary Ware. Rev Miles Beevor, son of Sir Thomas Beevor, weds Miss Beevor of Norwich.
Notices list multiple obituaries including James Duncan cobler of Newcastle known as Sir James Duncan, Mrs Simpson of Watling Street, and Rev John Towne of Little Penton among others. The piece also presents a dated stock market snapshot with prices for Navy and Victualling Bills, Indian Annuities, South Sea Annuities, and Lottery Tickets offered at morning and noon rates and prize discounts.
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