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Newspaper
Courier
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 18, 1817
Page
4
The Courier notes the Secret Committee reports will be presented to both Houses this evening. It is unlikely there will be discussion, they will be ordered to be printed, and a day set to consider them. Both Houses’ committees are said to be unanimous.
In a spirited exchange, Lord Cochrane and Mr Brouingham spar over annual parliaments and suffrage tied to taxation. The piece credits Cochrane with highlighting potential excesses, while noting a call for moderate reformers to unite and begin, lest further aims emerge.
The piece defends the delays in Chancery proceedings as necessary to avoid hasty judgments. It praises Lord Erpow and Lord Castle Reach for integrity and condemns attacks on public officials, urging restraint and prudence in criticizing judicial conduct.
In the House of Commons the Lonp Chancerran faced withering attack over 88 prisoners under sentence of death at Newgate. Critics blamed delays on the Recorder, while Castlereagh denounced the speech as inflammatory. The Recorder defends slow, thorough inquiry. reports must be complete.
A fragmentary dispatch from Paris discusses a unsigned document attributed to high nobles and presented to the Kiva. It notes reactions of King Louis and the Queen, mentions rumors about the Duke of Orlean and concerns over the Kro’s health amid English press chatter.
The Bank of England's public exchange hall was largely empty this forenoon as the rapid swap from old silver to the new coinage proceeds. Officials note no old coins remain in circulation and credit the government regulations for a smooth, widespread coinage rollout.
In a London report details emerge from secret testimony about the late treason case. An accomplice describes meetings at Golden Anchor and East Smithfield, with the Doctor and elder Watson amid riots. Banked by police bribery rumors and hospital amputation, the tale ties to dockyard lay-offs and labor cuts.
A Paris letter recounts Sir Sidney Smith's supposed cunning in a midnight courier delivering a Vatican hoax. Cardinal Gonzalvi allegedly sent a key and hinges with a letter praising Smith for ending Christian slavery and proposing the Order of the Key.
The Ebenez er cut from an anchor in the Downs and towed by vessels including the Prince of Wales Olive Branch Providence Four Friends Bedford Diligence Pallas La Samaritada Gilsing and Alexander with a damaged bum. Other ships listed include Elizabeth Forrest Ceylon Marquis Wellington Oswin Norval Greenock Hock Leghorn Cad Canada St Vincent’s Poxysmouty and Ariadne Duncan Duncan Duncan returning from various trips.
Dublin Castle January 3. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant conferred knighthood on James Scott Livere of Daridge for meritorious service in the Portugal and France campaigns. He commanded the 7th Cagadores in key battles including Vimiera Talavera Busaco Salamanca Vittoria Pyrenees Nivelle Nive Orthes and Toulouse. Signed Wat Barataag Deputy Ulster.
Reports indicate the island of Tristam da Cunha south of St Helena has been taken possession of. Stores and materials from the Cape of Good Hope are sent to form a garrison similar to Ascension.Further news covers a Worcester man Richard Underwood confessing to a Ledbury murder, a fatal highway killing near Birmingham, a fire at Saddlewood near Badminton, and noble land developments by the Earl of Fire near Keith and Balvenie.
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