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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 04, 1796
Page
3
Review of the Charity Boy at Drury Lane notes insufficient plot despite benevolence as its core. Characters include a village lawyer, a drunken Irish servant, and a female emigrant with her attendant. Dialogue and songs praised in parts, but overall lack of novelty and cohesion, with performances by Bannistic, Welsh, Leane and Decamp highlighted.
Saturday evening the venue staged Olonipus in Uproar with lavish scenery and machinery. The performance featured new music and strong acting by Munven Townsen and Simmons as Jupiter Mercury and Momus, though some audience members disliked the frequent recitative and pagan imagery. The Venus of Mrs Mountain pleased. Detpint led the pantomimes. improvements suggested for length and certain songs.
In a heated exchange the Executive Drase Tony weighs invasion of England or Ireland as Patriots Grarra and Fox illuminate the topic. Corrostrion figures back Jacks on Stone while others form defense corps in Middlesex and Drury Hundreds. Sturt offers tenants from Dorset, a regiment of Jews is planned, and General Tarleton is named to lead. The Dutch Admiral Lucas is referenced in a perplexing aside.
The decree issued at Queluz on September 17, 1796, fixes rules for neutrality amid European tensions. Privateers of belligerent powers are barred from ports, with prizes not to be sold or unloaded there except to fulfill humanitarian duties, and only long enough to avoid danger. The Council of War to issue execution orders.
On Wednesday November 2 the article lists entries and odds for Sir H. V. Tempest's Hambletonian three-year-old and Patriot six-year-old in a 56 subscription handicap. Across the Flat features Hippopotamus and Avator with other runners like Parisot Faubus Cedar Hamadryad and Parrot. Odds emphasize Hippopotamus at two to one and Parisot at four to one with several others in contention. Subsequent days cover two-year-olds, sweepstakes, and additional races with odds on Little Devil Frisky Spinetta and Diomed in the Fr day program.
Dublin reports that the Lord Lieutenant granted Royal Assent to the Habeas Corpus suspension bill and held a Privy Council at the Castle. The Earl of Westmeath's Divorce Bill was sealed and sent to England for Royal Assent, with provisions for an annuity to the Countess of Westmeath. Both Houses adjourned to a fortnight hence, with no business until January. Militia plans include exchanges between Ireland and England, and Rev. Robert Burrowes faced trial for libel against Theophilus Swift with a guilty verdict.
The Rev Dr Doucras of Blanet College resigns as Vice-Chancellor. The Rev Richard Betwarp of Caius College to be chosen Vice-Chancellor for the ensuing year. Norrisian prize topic: The Advantages which result to Revelation from its being conveyed to us in the form of History.
The Friends of Anarchy celebrate a November fifth festival while Dorham barracks prepare for the West Essex Regiment. A Bow Street raid reveals a Leicester Street gambling house run by two emigrants. the Faro Bank and other games are tied to a Frenchowned establishment. Thirteen French men linked to the house face expulsion or imprisonment.
The long contested borough race ends as Joan Hix withdraws from the petition. Both parties vow to bury animosities and lay aside all past disputes to move forward peacefully.
Barnstaple on Friday morning a fire broke out in the Rawleigh Buildings near town where a woollen manufactory operated. In two hours the extensive complex with machinery and goods was burned to the ground, but no lives were lost as no workers were present. The blaze was so fierce a water-wheel stream boiled, and the glowing flames were seen fourteen miles away on a dark dawn.
Last week by command of the Duke of York two Portable Reconnoitring Telegraphs built by Mr Epceworth were set in Kensington Gardens. At eleven o'clock the Duke arrived with Colonel Brownaire and others, and a message was sent between stations in under two minutes. The Duke inspected the telegraph and praised its portability and simplicity. In Lynn Norfolk a new dry dock opened, the William Hubbard taken in with cheers. A Corps of Marines expands by three Companies per Division and Field Officers are slated for augmentation. A fire destroyed the Butterworth scribbling machine at Holmfirth. English seaman Joseph Sparman, aboard the French privateer Marauder, was jailed at Yarmouth for felony and piracy, a notable wartime lapse.
Public records reveal John Groves, charged with obtaining twenty guineas under pretence of procuring a pardon, before a magistrate seeking bail with two gold sureties. Isaac Warren alias Old Nick charged with pocket robbery after admitting theft. thief declares preference for stealing pockets over making handkerchiefs.
A trunk with wearing apparel was stolen from a post chaise near Barnet after a chase ending in East Barnet where pursuers recovered the horse and chaise and trunk. In Hampstead a silk mercer faced leg amputation after injuries from a jumping accident. A strong youth David Jones was wounded in a street fight with cutlasses. two porters were hurt, one saved by a jacket, as thieves and murder were cried. Prostitution thefts occurred in Holborn. A death sentence was reported for David Scott for assault and rape of an infant. Gaming-house arrests and a Limehouse fever case were also noted. A Hertfordshire pistol accident killed a woman, and a cargo cart death occurred in Dudley.
Birth: at Palace Yard the Lady of the Speaker of the House of Commons was safely delivered of a daughter. Marriage: on the 24th at Matlock the Rev. D. B. Allen married Miss Julian.
Yesterday morning at Tooting Surrey Henry Dodwell the last surviving son of the late Robert Dodwell of Donors Commons mo Cee wee On the sth of Sept to aid the Governor Wentworth Transport Major Lemuel D Edwards of the Royal Regiment of Artillery on his passage from the West Indies on the sth of September aboard the Government Transport Major Samuel D Edwards of the Royal Regiment of Artillery on his passage from the West Indies On Fridays at his lodgings in Orchard Street Kenneth MacKenzie Esq of Cromarty
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