Lords deliberations delay Earl Lauderdale petition
In the House of Lords on Tuesday April 25 the Privileges Committee heard Grant and Dartriver on behalf of the Earl of Errol. Witnesses were examined on that side and further business was postponed to next Tuesday. Several Commons bills were read including amendments to the Small Notes Bill. Admiral Sir John Jarvis sent thanks for the addressed vote. Adjourned.
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Earl of Lauderdale
Grant
Dartrivber
Earl of Errol
Commons
Sir John Jarvis
House of Commons April 25 1796 Debates on Imports and Bills
The House ordered the discontinuation of Cambridia importation and debated a Levant trade bill. Committee on the Navigation favored prize ship privileges for certain foreign ships under regulations, with aliens in colonies allowed to work as merchants and fadders. Provisions for registering ships built in Company settlements in the East Indies were discussed. Reports to-morrow. measures to permit imports in British or foreign bottoms for a limited time were moved. Mrs Grey sought accounts of St Domingo bills paid before December 75 1796 and since. Hart India Company bill to fund two infantry regiments was allowed.
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Cambrid
Ait Indies
Committee of Supply
Ryder
Levant
Grey
St. Domingo
Treasury
Douglas
Hart Tidia Company
Middlesex Rates Bill on Navigation Acts Debate
The House of Commons considers the Middlesex County Rates Bill and related reports. Committees of Supply and Ways and Means are noted with motions on public finances. An Aldermanic motion addresses the lighting engines of turnpike roads.
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Bufi Fhers
House of Commons
Middlesex County
Pizy
Alderman
Lyssincron
Truce News and Public Notices From 1797 Chronicle
A lengthy 1797 dispatch list describes a six day truce between the Austrian forces and General Buonaparte amid Tyrol campaigns. The report notes British naval reinforcements, Ireland’s loan measures, and government moves including a Lord Mayor’s reply to a Common Hall requisition.
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London
Common Hall
Old Bailey
Archduke Buonaparte Tyrolean and Suabian Forces Clash
In a sweeping report tied to Tyrol and Suabia operations, Archduke Buonaparte pressures Austrian lines as Archduke defends inch by inch near Knittelfeld and Meran. Generals Spur, Kerpen, and Lassdolin rigidly maintain positions while mass movements and calls for a Suabian rising aim to thwart French advance.
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Salzburgh
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Tyrol
Lieut
Kerpen
Sterzing
Eifach
Brixen
Styria
Arcapuke
Austria
France
Maffina
Count Spork
Tysol
Mérthal
Lasidolin
Botzen
Fleet news of privateers capture and naval actions at sea
The report details multiple ship captures near Barbados and by privateers, including the Venus, George Crownimthield, Mary and Jean Barclay, Argyle, and Le Deux Friends. Frigates Flora and Pearl pursue the French privateer L Incroyable, which surrendered after a three day chase. Le Chert was mistaken for a gunship in a separate encounter. The fleet at Spithead shows discipline improvements after a seamen's petition. Transports with 1200 French prisoners depart. other ships remain in the Sound and Downs, with several destined for Plymouth, Philadelphia, Lisbon, and Madeira.
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Nere'Land
George
Batavia
Boston
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Jean
Barclay
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Tobago
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Argyle
Libson
London
Lisbon
Gardner
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Flora and Pearl
France
Flora
le Chert
Spithead
Royal William
Pickmore
St. Helen’s
Royal Sovereign
Avas Garoner
Duke
Impetueux
Mars
Rodu
Joan Orne
T. Maney
Lynn
Edgar
Chapman
Marriage at St Bartholomews Royal Exchange
Yesterday at St Bartholomew's Royal Exchange William Aburrow Esquire of Wickham Hampshire married Miss Auger of Eastbourne Sussex.
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St. Bartholomew's, Royal Exchange
William Aburrow
Wickham, Hants
Miss Auger
Eastourn
Sussex
Obituary notices from Antigua and London deaths
Died notices include the Lady of the Hon. Thomas Jarvis aged 44 in Antigua on February 6. Other obits mention Mrs Elizabeth James Cook of Clerkenwell, Mrs Laforest of Hammersmith, Mrs Mebalish of Albemarle Street, and the Rev Mr Bulkley Dissenting Minister in London. Stock prices show 4 per Cent red at 48 2 2 and associated government and bank notes figures.
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Antigua
Thomas Jarvis
W. Whitehead
Elizabeth James Cook
William Cook
Abraham Rhodes
Clerkenwell
Hammersmith
Laforest
Lawrence Laforest
Hamlet
Mebalish
John Mellith
Albemarle-street
Ate Bulkley
Ondon
Printing House Square note from Warrey printery
A brief line credits J Warrey Printing House located at Square Blackfriars. The note records the printer’s attribution and location in the historical London print shop.
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J. Warrey
Blackfriars
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