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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 18, 1799
Page
1
Linwood hosts an exhibition at Hanover Square Concert Rooms with additional pictures. It runs daily from morning to evening except Sunday, from 9 in the morning until evening, with admission set at 1s.
Public notice advertising a dubious auction and lottery scheme selling tickets for a grand prize draw. Claims involve naval stores and condemned materials for sale to fund a speculative lottery with large prizes and high potential profits, urging early ticket purchase and detailing dubious prize amounts and drawing dates.
A historic judgment discusses incompatible offices. A coal meter appointed Overseer of the Poor resigns arguing conflict with his business. The court rules on prerogative privilege, set-off pleas, and a potential new trial while detailing related claims on repairs, rent, and title disputes.
Nov 22 court hearing in Banks v Thompson outlines a demurrer to a plea in bar arguing funds spent by the tenant on repairs at the landlord's request should be treated as rent payment. Mr Marryat explains the plea, noting the tenant’s claim to credit against rent.
In a Barnett versus Leader case an attorney sues to recover 501 for conveyancing. Defendant has paid 30 in court and the judge urges referral to expert opinion. Mr Serjeant Shepherd speaks for the client. Lord Eldon presses defendant to consider mediation rather than trial.
A damaged OCR yields unclear courtroom discourse. The passage mentions parties, justice administration, and a defendant’s fate, with references to a jury, decisions, and a potential retrial, though specifics remain obscured by garbled text.
A harsh critique traces urban indigence to parish neglect and misfortune, detailing how displaced families migrate to the metropolis pressed by lodging costs and scant employment. It links poverty to crime, prostitution, and pawnbrokers, warning that neglect drives youths toward vice amid systemic failures and police gaps. Later, a robbery on Katy Crescent Square interrupts the bleak account as two masked highwaymen seize Mr. Borrey’s money.
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