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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 30, 1795
Page
3
A Constant Reader writes from Southwark praising readers and editors for advocating bread mixed with barley or oats to curb rising costs. He notes only a few bakers produced the blend, while others resist change, and urges public institutions to adopt the mixed bread and rice milk. He argues broader reforms are needed to lower corn prices and wage pressures.
The morning prints yesterday and today circulated vague reports of an Austrian victory over the French after a neutral vessel arrived from Amsterdam. The notices dismissed claims of Avranches capture and Paris siege as uncreditable.
Dublin reports a man named William Lee, suspected of diamond thefts, bribery attempts at Bridewell, and a wife Hannah Ansell with child. A pistol shot near the New Gaol prompts a pursuit. a ship named Thomas is lost near Robermony. Militia tensions rise in Limerick and Armagh with a murder inquiry and jailgate riot. Coroner’s inquest ties a bayonet wound to a soldier in uniform.
The trial of Captain Norman of HM ship Medusa for alleged misconduct will begin at Portsmouth on January 4. Admiralty summonses have been issued for most merchant masters who returned with him to London to attend.
A Sunday melee in Irishtown led to Armagh Militia privates seizing a jail escapee accused of murder. Authorities moved to disarm and deploy forces including Dragoon Guards, Antrim militia, and fencibles to Cork. alarms and express dispatches followed as troops prepared to cantonments.
The Lieutenant Colonel Cov garrison unit marched out of town to the normal joy and satisfaction of the inhabitants, signaling a ceremonial departure and community approval.
Lord Dowgeartz faces charges in Ireland including ungentlemanly conduct by promoting Lieut Trimbath over seniors, granting a captaincy to Kenny, breaking arbitration terms, insulting remarks from Capt Lieut NicConrmunist, failing to convene a Court Martial against Colthurst, and paying Colthurst 100 guineas to quit the regiment. Colthurst calls the charges grossly ill founded.
The New Pump Room opened at one o'clock amid a huge crowd. The Duchess of York tasted the water at the Corporation’s request. Her Royal Highness entered by a private door due to the crowd, while the Duke and Colonel Monson accompanied her. Guards managed the throng as music played including Rule Britannia. The building was described as beautiful and grand.
York reports the first division of Col Hancock's Regiment of Fencibles marches to Berwick upon Tweed, to be followed by the North York Militia led by Lord Fauconberg. A local relief scheme proposed by Mr Thompson directs tenants to deliver wheat or rye to granaries for sale to poor families, with overseers of the poor supervising purchases and distribution aided by his donations.
A drunken quarrel at a public house in Long Melford Suffolk led to a pitched street fight between soldiers from the 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards and locals. A serjeant and a private were jailed for assault, others reported as wounded. A separate robbery near Tyburn Road involved two footpads. In West Firle Sussex, Thomas Fi est claimed a premium for potatoes from Lewes Association, with other prizes offered for future planting efforts.
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