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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 26, 1792
Page
4
In the House of Lords a committee examined a bill to curb artificers and journeymen. Counsel for workers and for master builders argued hardship and abuse risks. The Lord Chancellor condemned the bill as oppressive and unfit and moved to adjourn. The motion passed leaving the bill defeated.
Wednesday notes the Princess Royal's nervous rheumatic facial pain while she nears recovery, likely to attend the Queen's gala at Buckingham Palace. Also referenced are Sir Robert Epen’s Baronetcy, Sir Morton Even, Sir William Coprinerton's bequest, and lottery installment details amid racing and public debt talks.
Paris Friday evening reports the Krxc appoints M Garnier as Minister of Justice replacing Durort Du TextTRE. Rovann de la Pratrizere becomes Minister of the Interior replacing Canter de-Ger Ville. Cuavrere becomes Minister of Contributions replacing Tarse. All new ministers are noted as members of the Jacobin Club.
Debates in Parliament cover a motion by Mr. Pitt for a vote of approbation on Lord Cornwallis by the Travancore country in India. Committees consider the Duke of York’s Establishment Bill and the Seapreakers Bill. Report of a resolution regarding the Isle of Wight.
The Lords of the Privy Council meet in Whitehall to hear complaints by merchants and land proprietors against Epmund Fannine, governor, and other officers. News includes stock slackness, a Leeward Islands mail, Botany Bay reports on drought and new harvests, and calls to end the slave trade. Observatories planned in Madrid, storms at Smyrna, army pay concerns, ship fires, and various circuit and session updates.
Jamieson Jamieson, an intelligent mulatto overseer on a mountain in Port Royal parish, died last Sunday after six weeks of hydrophobia. He was bitten near the left eye when separating a house dog from a neighbour’s dog at dinner, the dog killed, and he later refused water despite fevered convulsions.
Authentic militia returns show eight thousand NCOs and privates, with the addition of commissioned officers and reformados, gunners of forts, and the reform of the legion. The total likely exceeds ten thousand bearing arms, placing Jamaica near a sizable armed population and a substantial free inhabitant base.
On February 2, commanders of the war fleet vow to seek reimbursement for all costs since the landing of French negroes on English Key. A strong remonstrance will be presented to the Colonial Assembly against the French Captain for his inhuman conduct in landing the unhappy wretches on a British settlement.
February report notes the Bourdeaux owned slave ship Le Conneur destroyed on the Guinea coast by enslaved people from Gambia to St Domingo. Slaves set fire to the powder room causing the ship to blow up. Captain and eight crew members were saved and badly wounded.
The King signed a February act creating ten year phased abolition of the African Slave Trade with continued import allowed to build slave populations in Danish colonies. It praises Danish reform after rural emancipation and urges justice and policy. The rest reviews instability in India with Lawrence’s victories and Mysorean threats, plus weather and mail reports from Hamburg, Danes, and S. W. ports noting frost, ice, and deserters.
OCR fragment lists numerous numbers and codes for prizes, including several repeated phrases such as prizes of and various No. entries. The text is incomplete and unreadable in places, lacking coherent context or identifiable entities beyond the numeric references.
No. 41 074 drawn yesterday shows two prizes sold by Messrs Hornsa and Office at Corbhill and Rosery Street Lothbury. Ticket 28557475 wins 20 000l. The token, purchased November 7 by Messrs Guyows and Bowpon, Stock Brokers, in a Monday drawing. Regular registration noted for the 39 000l prize.
Leboquare London February 20 1792 notice declares public praise for Spilsbury antiscorbutic drops used in gout rheumatic and scorbutic cases. It argues extended distribution across Britain Ireland and the Americas and asks public to accept heartfelt thanks for years of support while seeking a royal patent to secure his family and continued relief for the afflicted.
Arrivals list includes the Lindo Robertson Tortola Plan ery Neatt Brunswick Douglas Hibberts Michael Bettey Laurice from London Carlisle Brydon from Whichaven Charming Mary Girl from Dulin. Others: Alice Jane Slater Perseverance Atkinson from London. New Albion Edmunds from London. Argus Norfer3 Brothers Ann from London. Pitt Robson from London cargo of St Magnus. Prince of Piedmont Cockburn from London. Talbot Carter from London. Britton Dale from ditto. Providence Finley from Bank of Falmouth. Le Citozen Bury from Guadaloupe. March 28 Liverpool York Norton from Botton Abby Watson from Barsadoes. Zephyr Crumby from Botton Buxton Scott from Corunna. Queen Bubdel from St Michaels. Remaining ships as before including William and Jane Griffith for Dublin Mercury Bates Jay Liverpool Hero Maynard for Montferatt Countess of Mexborough Crawford for Oporto Sierra Leone Packet Phibbs for Sierra Leone. Dear March 27 wind S W. Bufton Scott from Corunna and Queen Bubdel from St Michaels arrived river. Remaining: Freedom Gustaff for St Abel Nautilus Hitcat for Pool3 Renney for Bayonne Dispatch Warren for Barcelona.
The Drury Lane company presented Cymans with No Song No Supper last night. La Covent Garden showed The Road to Ruin with Marian. The brief notices reflect a lively theater scene and include several small casts and varying reception.
Notices of marriages in Sutton and Bristol with dates and names, plus a March market update. Wheat prices, grain prices, and crop notes show declines and varying quality, with detail on hog peas, beans, oats, and barley. Stock and bank rate data provide additional financial context for the period.
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