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Newspaper
Bristol Journal
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 03, 1787
Page
2
The London Gazette notes a plague outbreak at Constantinople seeding alarm along the coast. Algiers sees daily deaths ranging fifty to eighty, with consuls and foreigners sealing homes and severing contact with locals.
In the House of Commons on January 30, Mr. Gilbert moved to appoint a committee to examine returns under two Poor Laws acts and donations for charitable causes in parishes. A bill to establish a southern hemisphere court for transported convicts was left for later. Capt. Minchin urged a statement on ten years of Portuguese trade, while the Chancellor urged delaying until Lisbon negations concluded. Mr. Fox opposed lowering French duties before Portuguese ones, and the Chancellor argued for treating the Treaty first. Minchin withdrew his motion.
London reports from Madrid Amsterdam and London document court appointments resignations and political maneuvers. Lord Galway quits comptroller post amid a garter prize preference while John Fenn presents letters from Henry VI to Richard II era works. Baron Eyre sits as Lord Chief Baron in Exchequer and a shop tax repeal petition tops city concerns. The piece notes counterfeit halfpence stop plans and fleet movements including Gravesend departures and prison reforms.
Reports from Edinburgh dated January 7 describe the river Firth almost drying on Thursday for about four hours with no clear bed once water returned. A similar event occurred March 11, 1785, though the river did not stay dry longer than two hours. Frost was severe then, with much ice. the latest Thursday saw moderate frost and scarcely any river ice. The notices promote Hornsby and Co. plans as secure, claiming large bank-backed funds and strong guarantees to Adventurers. A banker’s receipt is cited to explain rapid sales of valuable Chances at the chosen venue, illustrating confidence in the venture.
On Wednesday January 31 Lord Carmarthen presented copies of the treaty of commerce and navigation with France and the convention with Spain for reading and laying on the table. Mr Drummond from the commissioners of accounts presented the fifteenth report. Accounts of duties on imports and exports within the Port of London were presented. The Archbishop of Canterbury moved thanks to the Lord Bishop of Oxford for his sermon to the House. Adjourned to Monday.
The House resolved in committee to move for a bill amending the act of the 21st of his present Majesty to ascertain corn imports and exports. Reports due Friday on Loyalist claims. thanks to the Chaplain for a January sermon. Commissioners of Customs presented annual accounts and MPs took oaths. Petitions from Fleet prisoners cited poverty. relief prayed. Supply committee adjourned Friday. Lords' message read. open committee set Monday to review parish charity papers. Adjourned.
London dispatches report Princess Augusta ill with Royal Flightess also sick since Friday. The 1787 budget shows 466 000l deficiencies mainly from West Indies hurricane, crops failure. India Company 400 000l credit and new wine duties not yet credited. Court at Guildhall backed Shop Tax repeal petition. Government to revoke 2 percent stamp drawback. Lottery bill outlines and convict transportation ships ordered to Botany Bay.
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