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Newspaper
Bristol Journal
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 12, 1788
Page
1
Sunpay s and Tugspay s posts describe Marseille March 22 with a visit to Toulon s arsenal. French harbor improvements since 1763 are noted. Eight ships of the line are dismantled yet ready, with all flares aboard and kept in order to equip twenty sail in twenty days.
From the London Gazette St James's April g Baron de Nagell had a private audience of her Majesty as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the States General. Lord Chamberlain's Office April 5 Rev James Burton appointed Reader and Preacher to His Majesty's household at Hampton Court.
In London on April 4 and 5 the House of Commons met after 4 pm with a sufficient attendance, discharging the second reading of the Sadler's Wells bill and setting a new date for it. The marriage dissolution bill for Mr Errington was read a second time. Customs accounts showed Scotland rum imports over the last two years, ending July 9. The militia payment bill was examined in committee, then resumed and adjourned.
Historical notes reveal a dispensation to Edward Lord Bishop of Oxford for a Canonry and a rectory in Gloucestershire, with royal and courtly movements involving the Duke of Dorset, the Duke of Northumberland, and potential Garter knighthood. Reports touch on royal marriages, export wool politics with France, national revenue gains, and India House sales, ending with details of lost outward-bound Indiamen near Barra Bulla and ship emergencies.
The account details a vessel driven ashore with 11 or 16 on board, most saved, including Mr. Corbett who survived after Mrs. Corbett perished. A pilot boat saved him, while a fellow passenger sacrificed himself to rescue Mrs. Corbett. Names of survivors and officers noted, with emphasis on a gallant act by a Ganges officer. The piece also covers Bengal customs, sailor shortages, local robberies at Fairford and Broadmore Hill, a Cambridge fire, and curious anecdotes about a cat wager and pin swallowing in Bedfordshire.
The text notes extreme strictness in supervision yet describes a persistently failing health and a continual urge to wallow stones, bricks, coal, or any extraneous substance that comes into view, with recovery scarcely expected.
Pope April 3 reports a newborn infant found dead in an alms-house privy in West-street. Coroner's jury verdict: wilful murder by persons unknown. Rapid search for the delinquent continues with no success. Readine April 1 notes a Barkham farmer convicted for keeping a dangerous mastiff and fined twenty pounds. Birmingham April 7 reports death sentences for highway robberies and a reprieve for a stabbing case. Leicester meeting forms an agriculture society with noble and gentry patrons.
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