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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 09, 1792
Page
4
A solemn meditation on Immortal Casar and a tyrant, praising Casar’s victories and wounds borne for glory. The poem contrasts heroes living with death, noting mutiny and the silence that followed their enemies’ appearances. It laments their lack of breath after death and calls history to judge their fame.
Friday in London reports House of Lords and Commons committees on various bills including Bond Street Hackney Coach and Slave Trade while relaying intelligence from France and Sweden. Proclamations in Brussels urge French emigrants to register or face exile, and a Dutch Dunkirk skirmish is noted along with 3500 pounds grants to Lord Barrington and Earl Howe for Navy accounts.
A Wednesday report says an assailant living beneath the House set fire intent on destroying the Commons while night fell. A hole in a water closet wall and wool breeches positioned with combustible matter were found, suggesting an aim to ignite late. Authorities fear incendiaries seek riot and upheaval amid reform rhetoric.
A court session in the Court of Common Pleas considers libel trial questions and jury determinations on truth as fact or law. The report mentions a Rule to show cause in Grant v Sir Charles Gourn, the Painters Company funding workers, and Dutch and Roman taxation observations with remarks on commerce and population.
Report notes the Prince of Wales breakfasting with military officers at Carlton House then proceeding to the Drawing Room at St James's. The Court enters mourning for the late King of Sweden. A House of Commons incident describes breeches burned in a water closet ceiling, attracting public curiosity and fashion interest. Also mentioned are patients at Pancras Inoculation Hospital with only two deaths in two years.
From Fort Washington reports describe a serjeant and four men visiting the scene of a November 4 battle near the Miami villages. They counted 538 dead, found one artillery piece and seven sets of cartridges, with BAIS buried or cast away. Colonel Wilkinson led about 499 men from Fort Washington on January 25 to bury the dead and likely visit the villages before returning. Fort Jefferson garrison and six months of provision ensured prior safety.
Discontent rose in Scarborough after Col Puirps voted against the Slave Trade. Magistrates called in the military to restore order as a dragoon force marched from York on Monday to quell the disturbance.
The Prudence from Martinique to Dunkirk arrives at Plymouth with sugar coffee and cocoa. The brig has been fifty nine days at sea. On departure from Martinique twelve black rebels were hanged. Two white conspirators are aboard to be returned for punishment.
The Jupiter from Lisbon to Scilly was driven ashore on the fourth of the month with all masts lost and four feet of water in the hold after forty days at sea. Two crew died during the voyage and most of the cargo was jettisoned to survive the severe weather. A house fire in Tottenham Court Road killed two children and badly burned others. A fire also broke out near Chelsea College, consuming the origin house and an adjoining one. Convicts from Gloucester gaol were moved to Portsmouth for Botany Bay transport. Devizes gaol fever claims prisoners’ toes and raises fears of further loss. Canterbury records a reprieve for John Field alias Cheesman on forged draught conviction, conditional on transportation.
Ship news lists arrivals at multiple ports including Virginia, Ostend, Hamburg, Fiume, Hull, Leghorne, and Liverpool. Names like James and Rebecca, Elizabeth Beveridge, Prince of Piedmont, and Mary Curr y appear among vessels from London, Hamburg, Grenada, and St Kitts with crews led by captains such as Cockburn, Sule tanay, Pearson, and Coates. Also notes about wind directions and pilots. Theatrical reports follow with Drury Lane Rivals and Covent Garden new opera Ju gin-Tinse.
Notices report marriages in Hoxton to Miss Eyre and in Westerham to Miss Ready from prominent families. deaths include Rev. Christa her Epworth Croxton and Vicar of Keelby, plus local figures in Grimsby and Knightsbridge. Grain prices and bank yields listed with market notes and currency references.
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