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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 28, 1791
Page
4
The piece argues we oppose arbitrary power yet defend real liberty and the British Constitution over France's new constitutional visions. It criticizes visionary reformers for chasing impractical schemes, urges experience and common sense, and warns against prejudice and neglect of historical truth.
A London column reports on possible succession in Poland while detailing British diplomacy over the Nootka Sound dispute. It notes De Las Heras gaining full powers to settle claims, Jamaica mail arrival, and the death of John Blandy in Berks with a charitable will allocating thousands to church, school, and infirmary works.
The article reports on Condorcet's decree plan to grant civic oath rights to emigrants based on residence, while non signatories are treated as foreigners deprived of most rights. Emigrated citizens lacking the oath would pledge not to serve foreign powers for two years and avoid arming against France under consul surveillance. Provisions also cover sequestered property and family support.
A successor to the late French ambassador at this Court will not be named until a willing French Secretary of State replacement is found, with several candidates declining. News notes economic strain in Paris and emigration issues, while Danish loans, Newmarket races, and local incidents fill the rest of the column. The piece references unrest in the Austrian Netherlands, emigrant concerns, and maritime mishaps including the Neptune’s loss with crew saved.
Carteret packet reports Jamaica militia called out by the Governor and security precautions. Dispatches from Port-au-Prince describe fires across 23 parishes on Hispaniola, with Cape Ouanaminthe Doniden Fort Dauphin remaining. troops guard Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas as insurrection fears rise. French families flee to safety while further ships bring little new detail.
A September letter describes a Jamaica-based observer witnessing a slave rebellion in a Caribbean colony. It notes up to fifteen thousand enslaved people nearby, looting and destroying sugar and coffee estates, with 800 regular troops and a larger militia lacking arms. Blanchelande’s divided leadership struggles to respond as whites and free people of color unite in Port au Prince against the rising insurgency.
On Friday night or early Saturday morning the Warehouse of Lockwoop and Cuapwick woollen drapers in St Martin's Lane was broken into and robbed of property valued at one hundred pounds.
Portmouth report details a gale near Fort Monckton that sank the Flirt's jelly boat with two midshipmen and three seamen lost. Survivors were saved by a pilot-boat. The Ulysses arrived from Halifax after 29 days, having parted from the Resistance in a gale. Numerous other arrivals and a sailing list from Havredegrace, Rotterdam, Cork and Stockholm are recorded.
Plymouth reports arrivals from multiple voyages including the Syrentigate from Guernsey with Mary Taylor and friends, Sybil Harris and Jamaica from London with Johanna Frederica Larson, Sockholm, and Captain Cook Gibson from Riga Wind E. S. E. The fragment lists several names and origins indicating a shipping-related notice.
The port of Liverpool boasted a fleet of ships owned by local merchants that surpassed the entire shipping tonnage belonging to Ireland by several thousand tons, highlighting Liverpool’s dominant maritime capacity in 1799.
Special appointment announces Mr Sillspury s Antiscorbutic Dove from Soho Square London now available in Edinburgh by John Kettie Perfumer at St Andrews Street. Large bottles 1 2s small 5s 6d. Copies of Spilsbury s Treatise on the Scurry Gout Diet and Remedy offer cures attested by ministers and elders.
Ship news lists arrivals at various ports with vessel names captains origins and destinations. From Riga Hamburg Stockholm and Virginia to Memel and Petersburg many ships are recorded along with dates and winds. The report also notes pilots and remaining vessels at sea with scattered destinations including Georgia town Gibraltar and Dublin.
The Rivals with Camas and King Henry the Fifth with The Critic are listed for performances this evening at Haymarket. Covent Garden shows Kate and Colins with The Dramatist, Stop Him Who Can, and Oscar and Malvina. Also reports births marriages and deaths with a Norfolk magistrate and church notices.
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