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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 12, 1791
Page
4
A fragmented 18th century style sonnet praising love and beauty. It extols innocence youth and peace and describes how love dispels wealth fears and life gloom. The piece invokes beauty’s fragrance soothing strife and asserts love brings content and virtue amid Life’s trials.
The Queen and three Princesses travel by horse from Weymouth to Kingston House, visit Mrs. Pitt and family, inspect gardens and fish ponds, then return to Windsor with courtiers. News notes recount naval exploits, a Paris amuse, a Jamaica church living, a London wagon accident, and local fires and crimes with brief outcomes.
October 13 report from Brighton states His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales remains very ill at the Pavilion. A cold and sore throat are blamed for his condition after the Newmarket Races dinner. A neck breakout caused alarming symptoms. Dr Kennedy attends constantly and thePrince intends to leave Saturday if recovery proceeds.
In Nassau Banama Islands on July 31 a petition to the King and Privy Council seeks to stop importing muffin and cotton goods by the East India Company to promote local cotton growth. The island crop this year is strong with about one million weight destined for Britain. Governor Bard-Dunmere secured Hogilland land grant except 30 acres that cover Nassau Harbour shipyards. An American ship recently arrived in New York from China carrying 290 tons of sugar, deemed a profitable venture amid high sugar prices.
A long roster of titled visitors and ladies and gentlemen is listed as arriving at Bath. Names include Earl and Countess Howth, Lord Laurence Laity Sydney, Admiral Crosby, General and Mrs., Captain Thompson, Mrs. and Miss Walton, Mr. and Mrs. M Carthy, Mrs. Parsons, Mrs. Knightley, Miss Chester, Miss Warren and many others. The record reads as a society attendance note with numerous familiars and associates.
PORTSMOUTH OCTOBER 73 Arrived the Dispatch Wood from Deptford Endeavour Tate and Mercury from Sunderland report Tuesday night thieves broke open the granary door of Lord Fhurley at Knight's Hill near Dulwich and stole about one pound in cash a small bank note. A portmanteau with wearing apparel belonging to Mr Jones of Jewin Street was taken from a porter in Bell Yard Temple Bar the same night Mr Walker of Warwick Place Bedford Row had his watch seals and other items stolen under the Piazza Covent Garden
Complex harbor reports list multiple ships arrivals and origins including the Mary Mary Gray from Bourdeaux and Woodrow from Massachusetts at Devere Waterford, and many others at Dublin Yarmouth Leith and Liverpool with origins Jamaica Archangel Grenada and Havre de Grace. Includes wind conditions and follow-on movements noting outward-bound vessels Columbus and others toward Seventeenth sea lanes and pilots remaining ashore.
A fragmented 19th century column records multiple marriages across counties including Mary-le-bone and Llanbedrog, with names and spouses such as Emma Vernon, Miss Roberts, Mig Jane Bland, and others. It also lists a current Cork death, a Ramsgate memorial, and a late 18th century stock prices snippet concluding with financial items and annuities.
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