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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 19, 1791
Page
4
A dense, period essay argues that European courts guard against French political manias and warns against rushing from one extreme to another. It contends that adventurers seek power amid civil confusion, predicts potential revolutions if Spain or other nations spark upheaval, and urges rulers to act prudently to avert widespread anarchy.
Monarchs and Princesses visited Weymouth Theatre to see As You Like It and Ways and Means. The Duke of York reportedly to wed on the agth instant, with the young Prince of Orange's marriage likely then. An array of peerages expected before Christmas, and a grant secures a Pall Mall town residence for the Duchess of Cumberland for 61 years.
Their Majesties arrived at Weymouth Assembly Rooms with two hundred nobles present. The Queen, King, and Princesses visited General’s house, then returned to the palace. The King rode the Abbotfluty road. sea was rough and baths sparse. Water is fetched daily from Upway springs for the royal table.
The Port Boy murder near Warrington is reported with details of a brutal mail robbery and the victim James Fhegaworth. Other items note the Marylebone Club versus Brighton Club cricket match, naval postings, aristocratic outings, and social commentary on dueling and public security.
The port’s dockyard names George Manger and Thomas Flaite as clerks with Pierce Edgcumbe succeeding Manger in measuring duties. A 98 gun ship is ordered laid down on the second slip, and the 120 gun Ville de Paris plus two 32 gun ships are to be started. Several 74 gun ships Mal, Audacious Ramilies Suffolk Radhel are under repair while Monarch 4 is paid off and laid up. Alfred 4 is to be refitted for guard-ship. Past the dips from Lord Elcod’s fleet are paid off and laid up. The greatest dispatch goes to paying them off.
Plymouth notes report ships including Ferret Hyzena Ranger and Spider with discharged crews en route for Ireland and Scotland. Inspector sails to Portsmouth then Deptford to be paid off. Shark paid off and re commissioned. Htuftriens to be paid off and laid up. Scourge to West Indies. John Rowe to face court martial for insolence and wounding a boatswain during irons.
On September 20 a Mary Ann, Wright, and Phoenix, Footner, arrived from London. Providence, Long, sailed for Petersburg, and Mary, Spence, from Antigua, bound for London. The Hannah, Gardner of Sunderland, carrying lime, was left off Whitby and all hands perished.
Belonging to Andrew Muire of Pittengreem, crews caught 17 000 herrings in one night and about 3 000 the next, totaling 20 000 herrings over two nights. Thirty boats have set nets, but no more than 1009 herrings per boat in a single night. The season has been unusually successful for Scottish fisheries. A boat log follows.
Sept 20 reports ships arriving and sailing from Lancaster including Britannia Roper from Memel and Revolution Cheverly from Nevis along with Queen of Portug d Snow from Opeing and Guernsey Hammady Clark Inn from Virginia and Paragon Atkinson from Archangel. Also Friends Goodwill Ewing from Southampton and Marianne Johnson from Grenada Dover Brilliant Bruce from St Thomas Jerley Wiseman from Quebec along with several other vessels and captains. Wind WNW battle shown with several ships sailing for Lisbon New York Bilbao and Liverpool after stops at Oporto and Dover.
Yetterday the Right Honourable Laly Herbert welcomed a daughter at his lordship's house in Hil street Berkeley square.
Notices of weddings and obituaries flood the page with names and places across England and Ireland. Spouses hailed from Hackney, Gretna Green, Dover Street, Alnwick, and Dublin, alongside a rector and bank deputy governor. Grain and stock prices fill the Corn Exchange section, detailing Wheat, Barley, Malt, and Hog Peas alongside government securities.
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