Debate on Select Committee and Exchequer Bills
Members discuss reviving the Select Committee on Finance and the use of Exchequer Bills for 3 million pounds. Mr Pitt argues for limited loan timing and immediate Exchequer Bills while Sir John Sinclair warns of monetary risks and calls for clear revenue statements. The House votes to proceed with the resolutions and to report them tomorrow.
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Pitt
Select
Select Committee ‘of Finance
Wilberforce
House
Hobart
Committee of Ways and Means
Consolidated Fund
John Sinclair
Par
Baronet
Open committee on excise papers ordered to print
The correspondence between Scottish excise commissioners and the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury was referred to the Committee. On Mr Dowglin's suggestion the matter was made an open one and the papers were ordered to be printed. Adjourned.
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Rofe
the Excise
Scotland
Lords Commissioners of the Treasury
Sele
Paris Papers Report Rhine Expansion Clash at Rastadt
London dispatch notes non arrival of Hamburgh Mails fuels unconfirmed Paris Gazette claim of French influence over Cadiz access and a Rastadt Congress dispute. Observes Swiss reform mood and France’s army pressure, with domestic unrest and electoral reform battles shifting from royalist versus republican to jacobite versus moderates.
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Paris
Directory
Hamavren
Cuxhaven
England
Rotterdam
Toulon
Cadiz
Rastadt
France
Rhine
Leoden
Campo Formio
SwitzerLawp
Berne
Pays de Vaid- Mott
Switzerland
Royal Court and City Donations Drain the Till
Yesterday morning the King rode out and held a Levee at St James's Palace then returned to Buckingham. Lent sermons were preached at the Chapel Royal. The Earl of CassTERFIELD was sworn as Master of the Horse. Large subscriptions poured into banks and the Royal Exchange for defence and state needs. Lord Harewood and others led gifts with totals reaching into thousands. naval officers and Greenwich Hospital contributed generously. Subscriptions paid in cash exceeded 20,000 pounds with Royal Exchange and Ladies’ contributions adding substantial sums.
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St. James’s Palace
Lord Cuancentor
Duke of Portrane
Lord Grenvillx
Winpuam
Buckingham House
Porters
London
Chapel Royal
St. James’s
Earl of Cassterfield
Viscount Sroprorp
Board of Green Cloth
London Exenance Assurance Company
Royal Exchange
Lord Harewood
Epwarphascenes
Heray-Las
Celles
Navy
Greenwich Hospital
Kensington
Lord Arpen
Sir Pepper
Arpen
Hebe
Bennett
Elizabeth
Carter
Ocean
Coox
Bes
Robert
Sarah
Anderson
Clarke
Hartford
Courson
Mary
Mansien House
Zsol
Revolt Spreads Across Swiss Cantons Faces Provisional Representation
In Pays de Vaud deputies form a Provisional Representation at Vaufanne vowing equality and liberty under Berne. General Menard backs the move while a Berne proclamation promises reform and a public-staff appointment system. Zurich grants wide rights and frees arrestees as revolutionary writings flood the land.
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Pays de Vaud
Vaufanne
Berne
Menard
Directory
Mengard
Switzerland
Arau
Aran
Zurich
Danish Ambassador Leaves After Dispatches and Militia Call
A Swedish visitor with Danish dispatches left the Danish ambassador's side as advices to raise supplementary militia went out to counties and deputies. Rotterdam reports no embargo in Holland following the late revolution and a boisterous voyage. Trade with West Indies expected to stay open. The Prince of Wales seeks leave to subscribe to country conventions. Duke of York and Lord Morra noted. West India merchants plan Wet Docks. Cadiz fleet activity summarized. a Court Martial in Lewes investigates a militiaman’s conduct. A Dublin ball incident ends in a duel-like injury to a nobleman, and regiments begin reallocation and recruitment from various militia units.
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Sunpere
Denmark
Rotterdam
Holland
Bric
West India
Prince of Wales
Duke of York
Lord Morra
House of Lords
Ireland
Lord Crars
House of Commons
Sons of Peers
Ferrol
Cadiz
Trucuert
Lewes
Stevenson
Bedford
St. Michael’s Church
Stephen’s-green
Dublin
Kent
East Kent
35Th Regiment of Foot
Cumberland
Westmorland
Northumberland
Durham
North York
East
West York
Malt or Corn as a policy exception in a London suit
In a law report from Guildhall London Mr Garrow and Mrs Spurg for the plaintiff argued on an insurance policy covering malt in Plymouth malt is argued to be corn due to its state after malting Lord Kenyon supported that malt is corn The jury found for the defendant verdict stating malt was corn and no average loss was payable
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Garrow
sParg
Plymouth
Lord Kenyon
Worthington
America
New-York
Custom-house
Erfeine
Suit for medical bills ends with verdict for plaintiff
Mr Garrow described a case where a surgeon sued Mr White in St Pauls Churchyard for 161 pounds 15 shillings and 6 pence for attendances on a child and on a woman called Mrs White or Mrs Miller. The defendant offered no defence and the jury returned for the plaintiff.
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White
St. Paul’s Church-yard
Justification in a Billingsgate Riot Trial Ends in Usual Verdict
In a case where a fishmonger servant sues a neighboring fishmonger for assault and false imprisonment, Lord Kenyon affirms the defendant's legal justification at law. The jury, instructed to consider whether there was a breach of the peace, awards the plaintiff one shilling in damages.
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Baxter
Billingsgate Market
Allon
Kéine
Garrow
Lord Kenyon
Gun-boat Willan Seized In Cawland Bay For Cargo
His Majesty's gun-boat Willan carrying 300 casks of spirits and three tons of tobacco from Guernsey was seized on Saturday night in Cawland Bay by Captain Cunningham of the Clyde frigate and handed to Revenue Officers at the port.
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Plymouth
Peb
Willan
Guernsey
Cawland Bay
CunnincHaw
Clyde
His Majesty’s Revenue
Monarch receives refit and sails to Yarmouth Roads
His Majesty's Ship Monarch, a 74 gun flagship under Sir Richard Onstow, has completed refitting at Sheerness and proceeded to Yarmouth Roads. The mutineers from the Amelian frigate, tied to the Saturn last year, carried a diabolical spirit that spread among sailors.
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Monarch
Richard
Onstow
Sheerness
Yarmouth Roads
Saturn
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