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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 08, 1800
Page
4
Lord Eldon reserved for next term two legal questions after a verdict for the defendant. The first asks whether a buyer, who pays from a sample and finds no fraud, is bound to accept goods later proven inferior. The second questions whether paying in money generally on the counts in the declaration binds the買r to the original contract.
London Gazette reports the King granting the dignities of Viscount Chelsea and Earl Malmesbury to Charles Sloane and James Mallesbury, with heirs male. Also lists bankrupts and scheduled dividends for William Long, H Thornborrow, Stephen Rutan, Whitip Davies, William Rawlinson, and others with dates.
Private letters report the Swedish king contemplates a visit to Emperor Paul in St Petersburg. The piece critiques Russia and Britain amid the Malta controversy and notes Malta’s siege by British arms, with discussions of neutralities and European war aims. It mentions Stockholm, Berlin, and Hamburg amid rapid diplomatic maneuvering.
Yesterday in the Solent a fleet including the La Hores Musictones Alliance Chichefier Serapis Harry and P Pique escorted by Gibraltar and Mediterranean convoys of 40 ships passed the Needles amid difficult winds. The West India fleet also moved with several vessels. Evening light showed ships through the Needles with several transports and store ships sailing from Cowes. DEAL Dec 9 The Memesis frigate sailed under convoy to Portsmouth with outward-bound ships.
The report records a hunt with the Duke of Cumberland and other gentry at Maidenberd Thicket, notes the Prince of Wales at Brighton Pavilion, and mentions health plans for Augusts at Lithon. It also covers price rises at the Lake Market, a Liverpool ship escape from Narva, a Prussian corn export ban, court remarks by Lord Erskine, and the Lisburn election bribery case. Various sports, a chase, and depredations are noted, with references to Coropton and Hatton.
In a formal notice the infant heir in Penne is prorogued to Saturday the 26th. Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has appointed George Augutus and Ash Fox as Justices in the Common Pleas, while Alexander Crook retires. The Great Seal confirms patents and appointments under the king's court.
An account details a fierce engagement on October 6 near Attica where the privateer Dick, mounting 22 guns, battled the Brijtish vessel Granane. The Dick’s crew fought valiantly as rigging and hull suffered. Captain Graine defended color retention and many men fell, with Granane’s crew displaying courage before the action ended.
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