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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 16, 1792
Page
4
Friday afternoon business in Parliament includes further consideration of the Libels Bill Carmarthen Drainage Oak Bark and Westminster Police Bills. Reports on the Irish Seamen’s Bill and related committees are listed.
A late Gazette promises detail on army actions since last advices. Mess rs Ross reports Bristol search yielded little. Bristol harbor vessels deny knowledge of Lieut. Abercrombie. Colonel Macpronax and Mr Sims, arrivals from India, confirm handwriting and date linking to Abercrombie. Descriptions of Outerdroog, Madras dispatches, and siege works praise Major Gewdie and Major Montarve. News on Company ships schedule after the Queen.
A private letter from Paris reports Berchin hussars deserting Luckner’s army and joining French Princes, with infantry following. Widespread desertions and officer refusals noted. A national association seeks Jacobin Club dissolution, calling for moderate government and constitutional respect. In Poland a National Militia idea is favorably received as Empress threats loom. Sever n Droog capture details: storming party, Monson’s flank attack, Killdar casualties, Cornwallis approving the troops’ bold action amid misty peaks.
Morning dispatches report Wooprorp and Dertrorp arrivals from China and Mapas via India House. The convoy Car nat ic and Taunton Castle left St Helena in April and May and reached the Downs. several ships failed en route from Madras and St Helena. Grand Army readied to move in January with peace proposals from Throe. The Nizam’s son and a Maharatta envoy, aided by Captain Lirrue, claim a decisive victory over ten thousand Tippoo troops on the Beppoore frontier, seizing guns and treasure, contradicting earlier surrender reports at Seringapatam.
The foregoing are the heads of the Intelligence brought to the India House this forenoon and were received only minutes before this paper went to press.
Madras dated January 1792 reports the Hon. Company ship Deptford arriving at anchor in the Road after leaving Calcutta on December 26. The Phoenix East Indiaman is expected around the 16th and will depart for England within three days of arrival. The Crescent, belonging to the Nabob of Arcot, reached Calcutta December 14 after a 51 day voyage. Capt. Beatson is ordered to survey routes toward Seringapatam with a march starting January 1. The 14th Electoral Regiments and staff, under Lieut. G Bruel, arrived at the Presidency on the 16th ultimo from Arnee.
The Courier reports rapid British progress with the capture of Sheria Ghurry and Ram Ghurry. The forts yielded after Pettah fell, only one sepoy wounded, and the Killedar surrendered as a strong, newly built fortress. Grain, stores, 12 English guns, and a machine for boring musket barrels were found.
Lord Cornwallis lauds Captain Welsh for reducing Ram Ghurry and Sheria Ghurry forts in a decisive operation. At Outre Droug, Captain Scott stormed the Pettah after a failed parley, capturing the fort with heavy garrison losses while European casualties remained light. The Bombay army crossed the Ghauts with 10,000 troops and ample supplies, aiming to join the main force by month’s end.
Reports from Calcutta note severe rice scarcity along the coast raising distress as Bengal supplies falter. Letters from Delhi mention Lieut. Col. Stuart arriving in good health after confinement. The Nymph from China reports a price drop in Canton opium and substantial specie. A Manila incident shows Chinese authorities clamping down after a fatal fray, with six Portuguese demanded despite government refusal, triggering supply cuts at Motoa and growing distress.
The Rev. Nicholas Bardwin rector of Langattock is collated to a prebend at St Pauls and installed by the Dean. The Rev. Thomas Thorp is nominated to the Archdeaconry of Northumberland and the Rev. Charles Weston to a Durham Cathedral prebendal stall. Burgess, chaplain, takes a vacated stall. Bant Holosew Mipcleton gains a dispensation to hold Saint Peter the Great vicarage and Singleton rectory with West-Dean union, presented by the Dean and Chapter.
Xingston in March reports Lieut Abbot arriving after a 26 day voyage to pursue mutineers of the Bounty, intelligence from a Spanish vessel at Porto Rigo confirms suspicion, crops on the island are abundant, and over twelve merchantmen prepare to sail to London next week. The Thetis with Captain Lane is stranded on a Bahamas shore but likely to be freed.
Yesterday several gaols in London and Middlesex sent prisoners to Newgate to await trials at the next sessions to commence at the Old Bailey on Wednesday. There are 497 prisoners in Newgate including 183 debtors 30 capital convicts respited 33 transports 64 under imprisonment and 190 for trial. Also reported are the coroner’s inquest at Euston Strand into an accidental drowning and the death of a man who fell into water from a ship with no marks of violence found on the body.
Ships arriving at ports list crews and origins with several vessels named. Notable entries include Black Prince from Dunkirk, Sarda from Shields, Swallow from London, Mount Royal from Oporto, Perseverance from Philadelphia, and Harmony from London among others. May 16 to 18 notes in the Downs and Dover passages with multiple vessels from Barbadoes, Dominica, London, and China.
A garbled review summary lists titles such as The Fugitive The Comedy of Errors and Feilerdey Intrigues. It mentions Covent Garden and various performances with fragmented phrases and unclear details.
Fragmentary notice mentions Dr Joseph Hart Myers of John Street and Miss Jaca of Moe Tesovek with Rev John Kirkby rector of Gothamytto Mi Allanson of Woksop. The text references a carret et eee and a time at London Bridge with a vague date and location.
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