05 Jan 1820
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Newspaper
Dublin Journal
Location
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Date
Jan 05, 1820
Page
1
Fragmentary text notes an extra allotment of twenty thousand pounds linked to the first drawn prizes in a New Year lottery. It mentions a lowest prize of sixteen pounds and references figures in pounds. Further details are unreadable in the damaged OCR.
The Dublin Journal notes improved public tranquility and rising commerce as Emmet’s era tightens, prices and gold stabilize with export demand. It reports the Bank of Ireland adjusting discount rates while contending that cash payments rely on specie, and highlights a petition from Irish laborers in St Giles seeking employment in Ireland to spur domestic revival.
A chaotic review notes failed South American expeditions to Venezuela and related ventures. It cites contradictory press reports, warns readers, and lists several gentlemen who dissociated themselves from the schemes. The piece condemns the folly and mystery surrounding agents and the motives behind the Venexselan affair and insurgent support.
The Chamber of Pegra met Tuesday to discuss a report on a provisional credit project. A division recorded 135 to 9 against a petition seeking to declare the January 16 1416 law banning regicides unconstitutional. The report was ordered torn from the records, and future mentions of similar petitions were barred. A complaint in Journal des Debats accuses Minister for Foreign Affairs Dessorts of signing a 20 year debt treaty with the Dey of Algiers. Marquis Dassavce warned ministers may face impeachment. Latoye Margduno issued a circular urging vigilance against sedition among troops to preserve discipline.
A broad exhortation from Lord John Sinclair to operatives and manufacturers in Glasgow and Paisley warns that protecting property requires immediate firm action to avoid famine and civil war. It argues that radical agitation endangers capital and industry, urges return to lawful conduct, and calls for unity to restore mercantile confidence and national stability.
A damaged transcription notes the arrival of the cyclone month and the retreat of wind and rain. It mentions various towns including Hagannal and references ruin connected to Florida and the Sing of Sain.
Bermuda's legislature met on November 16 after adjournment to appoint committees on establishing Marine Hospitals near St George's and Hamilton for sick seamen. A bill to enlarge the regular clergy was introduced. The house adjourned to the following Monday amid unrest from Mr Wyliy's inland attorney general actions and Florida succession. Two vessels sailed from Nassau to Demerara with slaves and their owners.
The Speaker directed the Select Committee to hear and determine the petition of James Gershon and others alleging undued detection and return for Drogheda. They assemble again on Thursday February 24 at eleven o clock in the foreroom.
Saturday's London Gazette reports Prince Regent appoints Major General Lewis Grant governor of Graham Land Islands in the Graham Islands, with Charles Cameron Fay resigning as governor, and Robert Graham, M D, named Heigins Professor of Botany at the University of Edinburgh, after Dr Daniel Rutherford's death. Hanover to reduce army to seventeen regiments. Parisian matters. American financial items. radical tensions near Manchester. Glasgow trial for seditious reading. hurricane reports. printing restrictions in Russia. Caledonian Horticultural Society notes. various London society incidents and upcoming publications.
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