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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 04, 1799
Page
1
Linwood's Exhibition, featuring additional pictures, now open at Hanover Square Concert Rooms. The display runs daily from morning to evening, with Sundays excluded. Admission is 15 cents.
Silby Hall near Worksop in Nottinghamshire to be sold by auction or private contract by Mr Taylor of the George Inn Worksop. The manor includes a capital mansion house with extensive grounds, farm house and cottages on about 540 acres of land. The property lies near Blyth Hunt water roads and Chesterfield Canal, with viewing arranged through Mr Hannam solicitor Worksop. Part of purchase money may remain on mortgage.
On Wednesday before the Recorder Mr Justice Grose and Baron Cusmore, Thomas Ganer and Catharine Ganer stood trial. Thomas Ganer was charged with stealing silver spoons from Elitha Pearce. Catharine Ganer was charged with receiving the stolen spoons knowing them to be stolen. Both were found guilty.
Daniel fh a Guards soldier faced indictment for breaking and entering the Parsons Street dwelling of George Venables and stealing three time-pieces valued at 61. Venables testified the shop window was broken early October and a watchman’s rattle alarm drove off the thieves. Witness Lewis, once a Guardsman, recounted plans to steal more items and identified payments from Thornton for two watches, with a final piece sold near Westminster Bridge. The case features discussions on accomplice testimony and rulings on admissibility as the court weighs corroboration and links to Charlotte Thornton.
Fragment from a courtroom report describes Mr Justice Goose and Mr Justice Gross debating admissibility of evidence from Lewis and Mrs Thornton, both accomplices. Jury returns Not Guilty for a husband. multiple defendants in separate theft and robbery cases are found guilty or acquitted after detailing shoplifting of lace and other items.
Thursday December 5 trials feature George Parr John Pro fert and John Youd found guilty of stealing goods in separate cases. Wm Pates tried for embezzling shop funds while serving at Emmerson Cheesemonger Oxford Road. evidence shows he took money and goods, then drank away the evening. Jury returns Not Guilty on the embezzlement count after defense argues servant property.
Jane Gibbs was attacked by a mob after a hackney-coachman left her at Chancery Lane without payment. She fought them with patterns in each hand, backed against a shop door, until a constable saved her, leaving her nearly naked and muddy. She was taken to the Poultry.
The Hamburg Mail recounts Allied actions in Italy with General Kray near Bofeny and Novi. It notes 1800 prisoners taken, heavy enemy losses, and Aspiring outposts at Savigliano Genola Morozzo and Centale, with French forces decisively repulsed and numerous officers captured or killed.
Nov 12 reports Austrians repossess the Grifon district up to Tlantz after French evacuation. Chur not yet in Austrian hands. Central Dedo wiek near Mount St. Genhard faced shortages. Austria also withdrew from Mount Kunkel as large troops assemble nearby. SUABLA notes Augsburg courier from Petersburg on the 12th and a later dispatch to St. Petersburg. Ruffian HQ rumor debunked. Parodin leads 800 Cossacks toward Bohemia.
From Basle on November 12 the French are building a bridge head at Dietikon and have erected a bridge there. They are said to be preparing to cross the Rhine with plans to penetrate into Suabia if events do not alter. The report notes no changes in affairs at that moment.
Brussels November 23 reports a planned raise of the Prussian army to 45,000 men for Upper Germany with new regiments to Westphalia this winter under the Duke of Prussia, who may command at Minden. Westphalian provosts prepare twenty new batteries along the Weser and a citadel fortress camp is planned. Latour Maubeurg, once imprisoned with La Fayette at Olmutz, arrived from Holland and was arrested as an emigrant in a police sweep.
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