ENGLISH PARLIAMENT YARN BILL AND RELATED MATTERS
The Yarn Bill was read a second time with Lord Cary warning of hardship its passage could cause to the poor. Mr Baxter favored the principle. Indemnity Bill report presented. Poor's Laws debated on second reading and committed to a select committee. Luggershall petition seeks Townshend party status after Selwyn’s death. Revenue and Expenditure papers ordered. Ways and Means and Supply delayed. Sugar Bill postponed. House adjourned.
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Baxter
Lord Carysfort
Popham
Baker
Dundas
Hobart
Gilbert
Long Robe
Luggershall
G. A. Selwyn
Lugegershall
Abbatt
J. T. Townshend
J. ‘Townshend
London Levee Scenes and Court Notices Highlight Era Demeanors
A vivid London page recounts a levee at St James's with the Massarrene as the first attendee in eighteen years, followed by Privy Council reports in Newgate sentences and royal entertainments. It notes foreign ministers, directors, and ambassadors in private audiences, plus a debate on Warren Hastings and Tyburn lore. The piece then shifts to Shakespearean parentage debate, Varna captures, and French Assembly decrees, critiqued as juridical excess.
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St. James's
Massarrene
Dorset
Croxford
Ireland
Bancor
Major Brevis
Hector Munro
Captain Scott
Duke of Buccleugh
Lampert
Lambert
Tondon
Newgate
Hell
Buckingham House
Duke of Lerns
Grosvenor-uare
Whitehall
Earl of Extem
Vienna
Earl of Sanowica
Tottenham Street
East India House
Henry Smedley
Raymore
Bombay
China
Joan Barclay
St. Helena
Bengal
Bencoolen
The
India Company
Warren Haskines
House of Commons
Gevorce Selwyn
Tyburn
Bourne
Holborn
Middlesex
Shakespeare
Varna
Constantinople
Moldavia
Livonia
Menz
Mene
Tekel Upharfin
Berswazzar
Covent Garden Farce Receives Tepid Reception
A contemporary review condemns the Spanish farce Two Stories to Your Pow for dullness and lack of novelty. It notes Mawpern and Mrs. Hartowe give capable performances while criticizing the piece’s stale ingredients and weak material.
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Mr. VaucHan
Mawpern
Mrs Yordan to sing at Drury Lane Oratorio debut
A newspaper note discusses Mrs. Jordan projecting a dramatic shift to a sacred music heavy program at Drury Lane. It highlights audience expectations, her voice’s lower tones for pathos, and mentions Dr. Parsons as tutor. A Dublin Handel anecdote with Mrs Cisser illustrates the era’s novelty and crowd appeal.
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England
Dublin
Magdalen
Naval movements and a harbor to Jamaica and Barbadoes
The Mermarp frigate under Capt. Courncwoop returning with Admiral Cornish’s squadron sails from England with the Homp sloop under Capt. Lawrorp for the West Indies. They part in a gale. Mermarin heads to Barbadoes with orders to ready troops, while Hounp reaches Jamaica. A 72 day run from Madeira to Jamaica is noted. An exchange occurs at Barbados between Capt. Gardner of the Cycurr sloop and Capt. Durnam aboard the Darune. Lieutenant Burrows of Onefton is assigned to a deck Plymouth rendezvous for seamen to join the Fleet of Observation.
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Courncwoop
Cornish
England
Lawrorp
West Indies
Barbadoes
Jamaica
Madeira
Gardner
Cycurr
Durnam
Darune
Burrows
Onefton
Plymouth
Gorton
Lochaber
Gordonsburgh
Scotland
Fort William
St. George's
Hanover Square
Rawsey
Harr Eupam
Bull’s Cross
Enfield
Middlesex
Miss Tudor
Daniel Drapers
Wiluiam Priv
William Pitt
Bauman “Wray
Cuarres Wilkins
Wray
Turkish Embassy Journey Reported Amid War Prep
Yesterday a detachment of the Artillery with Major, two Captains, eight Subalterns and three hundred Privates prepared to march to Prusnaye by the 27th to survey Pillau fortress and Dantzig toll-houses. reports say war with Russia may send a partisan detachment to Pomerania. the Turkish Embassy, led by Efendi Afmie Said, Efendi, travels in five carriages with a 14-person retinue and a guard, arriving Breslaw soon as Carnival preparations foretell a royal festival and opera openingesda.
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Prusnaye
Pillau
Dantzig
Russia
Pomerania
London
Efendi
Pon Roeder
Breslaw
Silesia
Political match for Augusta heir to Wirtemberg
In a royal gossip column the suitor is the hereditary Duke of Wirtemberg whose wealth is cited at about 250,000 pounds yearly. The piece mentions Prince William of Gloucester’s education plan, a Leeds threshing machine invention, a troubled murder case in Carlisle, and an improbable sea-crews extension device. It also reports a fatal cart accident in Shoreditch and a Bucks inventor’s underwater crew-liberation mechanism, plus a missing Jewish dealer and a false suicide hoax with a dramatic wig and coat.
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Wieremsune
Augusta
Wirtemburg
Leeds
Prince William of Gloucester
Gottingen
Royal
Italy
Benjamin Low
Carlisle Gael
Shoreditch
County of Bucks
Royal George
the Admiralty
Duke
Hackney
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Weronesday
Fed
Europe
Papal See
Republic
Theatre
Covent-Garden
Mrs. Yordan
Brey
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