Royal visit and political notices from London
London dispatch notes the royal family attending Chapel Royal in St James's with sermon by the Bishop of Lincoln, then private audience, and return to Buckingham. It previews the Duchess of Buckingham’s Privy Gardens ball, comments on European diplomacy, reform debates on liberty and debtors, and Parliament’s stance on the slave trade and Indian crimes. It also reports Swiss troop movements, Danish vessel ordinances, bankruptcy reform talk, Earl of Bute’s funeral in Glasgow, and naval dispositions to the West Indies plus the Queen revenue cutter’s Scilly voyage with a tea cargo seized.
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Hungary
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East India
India
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England
Ireland
Guernsey
Jersey
Africa
America
Guildhall
Burcess
Earl of Bute
Glasgow
London
Black Bull Inn
Benjamin Hammet
Joshua Reynoxns
Academy
Rome
Boswall
Syren
Manzey
Andromeda
Satisbury
Hyena
Kinwher
Plymouth
West Indies
Queen
Scilly
Benstead brothers trial ends with one guilty threefold murder verdict
In Suffolk, Roger Benstead the elder is convicted of wilful murder in the Briggs case, while his son is acquitted. Harper’s confession and the judge’s harsh summing up are noted as the jury returns a guilty verdict for the elder and a not guilty verdict for the younger. Five other prisoners receive death sentences. the elder is hanged at Andsley Commin near Lakenheath.
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Roger Benstead
Thomas Briggs
Lakenheath
Suffolk
Elder Benstead
Thomas Harper
Thomas Brigs
Benstead the Elder
Harper
Benstead
Tom
Roger Benftead
Briggs
Hans
James Mann
Richard’ Sealing
John Batram
Skipper
Thomas Clark
Martin
William Eagle
Philip Clarke
Andsley Commin
Andley Hall
T. B. Evans
Kirby
Norwich
Ipswich Man Hangs Self in Jail Before Execution
Yesterday morning at six o'clock the turnkey found Mann dead by a handkerchief in his cell. Ripshaw cut him down. Surgeon Stebbing declared death certain. Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of self murder. He was to be hanged today for robbing Mr Hart of Letheringham.
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Mann
Hart
Letheringham
Dublin Alderman Joan Surrox Eig elected in place of Jenkins
A Dublin election names Joan Surrox Eig as Alderman, replacing the late Alderman Jenkins. A UK military detachment in Canada is listed, plus various 1791 legal notes, local disturbances, and a murder-ward assault on a surgeon near Rotherhithe. The report also mentions a Kilkenny mathematician Pattie Fitzergton and an Irish dictionary task.
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Joan Surrox
Eig
Dublin
Alderman Jenkins
Canada
Royal Fusileers
Royal
Prince Eoward
Col. Simcos
Surrey
Stone’s End
King’s Bench
Harrison
E. O
Gloucester
Justice
Wilson
A& of Geo. II
Sandford’s Mill
Stonehouse
Eycott
Chapellane
Kilkenny
Ireland
Pattie Fitzergton
Trith
O'Donnell
Tuome- Son
Ford
Wodruff
Prince’s Street
Rothérhithe
Mill Canal Proposal Sparks Economic Debate Across Lands
A nineteenth century letter argues that canal linked mills would bring vast benefits to the nation, easing landowners fears and boosting commerce. It contends canal water obligations would be supplied at no cost, projecting employment for hundreds of thousands and heightened prosperity, countering opposition.
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Sarve
Fabiert
Hinself
Bees
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Buthel
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