Plague reports and European travel notes from London Gazette
From the London Gazette dated Wednesday mainly notes Genoa authentic plague advice from Algiers with about sixty deaths daily. Vienna report says Emperor departed for Lemberg at five this morning accompanied by Count Philip Kinsky. Count Walmoden left with recredential letters.
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Genoa
Italy
Algiers
Vienna
Lemberg
Philip Kinsky
Count Walmoden
Lond
Gaz
Resolutions on finance spar over deceptive public view
In Parliament Sir Grey Cooper attacks the budget as deceitful and erroneous. The debate exposes totals for miscellaneous services, sinking fund, and East India Company debts, with figures disputed and calls for testing the revenue and consolidation plan. Several members challenge Mr Pitt and Lord Newhaven, while Dundas notes the East India Company’s influence on the public finances amid looming borrowing and new taxes.
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Great Britain
Lord Newhaven
Hon. Baronet
Stee
Pitt
East India Company
Sheridan
Grey Cooper
Grenville
Entleman
Board of Control
East Indian Company
East- Indies
Juard Cornwallis
Dundas
East- India Company
Debates Over Shop Tax Opponents Claim Relief View
The debate centers on the shop tax and its alleged inequities with the Chancellor defending the tax while critics accuse it of partiality and burden on shopkeepers. Mr Lambton argues the majority’s wishes deserve heed and calls for repeal. Fox and Sheridan clash over privilege and policy as the House votes down the motion.
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Sheridan
S Eize
Sabath
Cornwall
Dunda
East India Company
India
John Miller
Francis
John Scott
Major Scott
Gilbert Elliot
Elijah Impey
Prince of Wiles
Alderman Newnhan
Fox
Westminster
London
Middlesex
England
Wales
Lambton
Durham
Gallimania
G. P. Turner
Hammet
Mainwaring
Sawbridge
Lewes
Newnham
James Johnstone
Col. Norton
E. Affley
le Meffurer
Martin
Brook Watson
Henry Thornton
Drake
Alderman Newnhams Motion Supported by Mr Gray
London reports that on April 23 24 Mr Alderman Newnhams intended motion to repeat the Prince of Wales is to be seconded by Mr Gray member for Northumberland this marks a parliamentary step in the ongoing debate and alignment within the reformist circle.
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London
Alderman Newnham
Gray
Northumberl
Public notices and ominous charges in parliament era
A broad Dublin and Mitcham crime and bankruptcy roundup reports a young man’s suspected fraud, a Dublin boy implicated in a bank-note theft by tar, a barber’s wife murder at Mitcham, Old Bailey sentences for 13 convicts, and a long list of bankrupts and dividends. Also listed are certificates, marriages, and deaths including notable figures and officials.
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Lombardy
Versailles
Bernis
Orleans Road
Vhce
M. le Marq. de la Fayette
Elizabeth
Dublin
Grafton-street
Grafton-freet
Mitcham
Old Bailey
Sovereign Remedy Pills for Gout and Rheumatic Complaints
An 18th century advertisement touts pills as sovereign for gout, rheumatism, and rheumatic gout with superior efficacy, claiming cures after other medicines fail. One box often suffices. sold wholesale by Thomas Oldham Chinner in London and retail by Cocking and Rudhall Bristol, Crattwell Bath, and various newsmen.
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Thomas Oldham Chinner
Peter-Street
Bloombury
London
Messrs. Cocking and Rudhall
H. Brown
Bristol
Crattwell
Bath
Empress presses demand as war fear looms in Vienna
Friday and Saturday's posts report on foreign affairs from Vienna. Monsieur de Bubakow presented a memorial to the Ottoman Minister detailing the Empress's insistence on her requisition and her pledge to defend her dignity, despite ministerial reluctance and public unrest toward Russia. Brest notes urgent armament preparations for East and West Indies with ships, frigates, and transports. Prothee, an East Indiaman, foundered near the port with two passengers drowned.
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Vienna
Rushia
Rushans
Brest
East
West-Indies
West India Station
Prothée
HOUSE of Commons Impeachment Debate on Hastings
In the Commons on Wednesday April 25 the Secret Committee report on Warren Hastings impeachment was moved to be received and debated. Burke pressed for consideration on Thursday fortnight while Pitt urged printing for members use. Marshamaid criticized post horse duty revenue changes and Pitt defended the bill and promised a first reading debate tomorrow.
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Dundas
Warren Hastings
Pin
Francis
Burke
Pitt
Marshamaid
Mr. Pitt
Royal Assent and odd charges fill London letters
From London dated April 23 1794 reports the Royal Assent to a Consolidation Duties Bill. It notes licenses for partridge shooting yielding high revenue, France’s financial strains, an Vienna ordinance against women taking nurses from hospitals, a 64 gun frigate from Martinico with officers to Paris, and a negro revolt in reforming planters’ losses. Also covered are Lord G Gordon’s plea, a Jersey linen factory, a Covent Garden injury from a broken glass, a Strand murder by a mother in madness, and a Portsmouth tale of Dr Maggs haunted by murder fears. final lines mention a noble Earl’s daughter and a duke’s former wife.
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London
House of Peers
France
Vienna
Rochelle
le Constant
Martinico
Paris
Bourdeaux
G. Gordon
King’s Bench
Jersey
Covent Garden Theatre
Strand
Portsmouth
Maggs
Ysle of Wight
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John Powell
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Bishopspate-street
George Woolley
Glocester
Richard Berry
Norton- Falgate
Edwardthorpe
Woodtreet
Hofier
Haac Tonge
Westhoughton
Lancashire
John Grilin
Fareham
Mercer
George Clarkson
Jet
Bell
the Poultry
Linendrapers and Partners
George West
Portsea
Southampton
Chapman
Henry Pool
Cock-court
Ludgate-hill
Major Cook
New Ormond Street
Richard Cox
Minehead
Michinhampton
Glocestershire
James Chambers
James Paty
Amelia
Quedlingburg
John Wrottelley
Duke of Grafton
Regiment of Foot
Staffordshire
Radcliffe
Matthias D Oyley
Spencer Madan
Schock
Leicestershire
Litchfield
St. Philip's
Birmingham
Chinner
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G. Pitt
Winet-Street
Exchange
Whitehall
Jamaica
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New-York
A. Maxse
A. Maxse, Broker. N
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Peggy
Tomb
J. Bonbonous
N. B
Patrick Fitzhenry
Brite Tol
Mellrs
Winbey and Son
Attornees
J. Fargus
Corn-street
Montague-street
Somerset-street
St. James
J. Stephens
Broad Street
William James
Limekiln
Samuel
James Hobbs
Lamb-street
St. Augustine
Wm. Symons
Walter Lloyd
Robert Williams
Colege-Street
T. Hembury, Buoker
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