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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 06, 1797
Page
4
In a heated Commons exchange, speakers defend a proposed tax plan aimed at supporting national defense while resisting claims it unfairly harms manufacturers. The measures, exemptions, and effects on different social orders are argued to be essential to sustain trade, labor, and patriotism amid wartime needs.
The Evening Mail reports limited new intelligence from Hamburg Mails though key items include a planned Procession at St Pauls with about 600 sailors and colors from enemies, plus Volunteer Corps to staff the event. Other notes cover Berlin political expectations, Bonn tax orders, ship movements to Madras, and a Holborn hill toy shop fire.
The Liverpool Packet reports several vessels on shore or captured. The Griffith from Belfast to Liverpool foundered in Beaumaris Bay, the Commerce from St Domingo to London to Bourdeaux, and the Union from Tennymouth to Newcastle leaky and sunk at Whitby. The Hannah from Mogadore to London captured by Buonaparte privateers and sent to Bayonne. The Planter, Mary, Beaver, and a sloop from London to Shields on Herd Land. The Duchess of Rutland from Liverpool to Bar Hadoes was captured by Le Vengeance in January. Belle from Oporto arrived at Bristol after convoy respite near Lisbon. de Young James from Glasgow to Virginia retaken by Boddicea and reached Milford. Resolution from India to Gottenburg condemned at the Isles of France with ship and cargo. Portmouth reports arrival of Princes Admiral Sir Rocstock Curtis and Neptune from Channel Fleet at St Helens.
Dispatches report Buonaparte establishing 20 Cisalpine departments in Milan with 240 deputies, while Venice sends 6 deputies urging democracy. In Bonn the French plan to appoint Regency commissioners and survey lands between the Moselle and Rhine for new Departments such as Roer and Eifel.
Arrivals include the Melpomene frigates under Capt Cartes Hamilton and the ship Friendship from Scarsborough with provisions from Portsmouth bound to Martinique. The ship was retaken from a French privateer near a convoy on December 2 and a passenger ship Hebniker is noted as captured and retaken. Other vessels from the Westward, Portsmouth, and Deal are listed, including ships retaken by Cleopatra and Diana from Hamborough to New York.
Robert Penn alias Fish was capitally convicted of stealing an Irish linen piece from Joseph Bulmer. Rachael Ann alias Fish indicted for receiving the same knowing it stolen but acquitted. Liha Barnet faced two indictments for forging a Bank of England note and another fraud. John Martin convicted of stealing shirts and sheets from the Duke of Gloucester. William Wade capitally convicted of a Whitcomb Street highway robbery. Ames Ball found guilty of stealing gold from Sage and Co. Moniers of the Mint and Margaret Gill also charged for thefts from John Bailey’s house.
The Irish State Lottery No 12,158 drawn today awards a prize of five pounds registered by Hornsby and Co at their State Lottery Office No 26 Cornhill opposite the Royal Exchange London. A second number 12,650 shows a prize of five pounds also recorded.
Marriages announced include Thomas Chamberlayne esq of Charlton Kent to Maria Francesca Walter daughter of the late Captain Walter, and Sir Henry Hoghton bart MP for Preston to Mrs Parker, widow of Thomas Townley Parker. Also Major General Nugent to Mira Maria Skinner daughter of General Skinner in Ireland. Died: John Heylyn of Highbury Terrace after a warm pursuit of health in Lisbon. Lady Leslie wife of Lord Leslie, daughter of Lord Pelham, died at Brighthelmston after illness. Mrs Jane Beard widow, aged 91, died at Lewis.
Fragmentary OCR shows financial terms from the Connecticut Conference with references to per cent yields, loyalty loan differences, stock mentions, imperial bonds, and lottery tick entries. Specific figures are unclear but indicate bond and loan terminology from a historical ledger or report.
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