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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 26, 1798
Page
2
The Lords heard counsel for Messrs Lean appellants and Thorley and others respondents and adjourned the matter.
Debates cover Money advanced by the Bank of Ang and for public service on December 31 1797. Bills discussed include Customs Regulation, holidays at Public Offices, Salt Importation, Exchequer Bills, Mutiny, and Scotch Distillery Duty. Petition from British Museum Trustees for funding. Leave granted to bring in a bill restricting British residents from debts to United Provinces without licence.
London report states Mr. Pirr is near presenting a plan to save the land tax. The proposal would allow five years to pay the full purchase money, with the tax expected to sell at about 20 to 22 years purchase.
A heated discourse attacks Lord Morra for supporting Ireland’s annexation to Britain. The piece argues that moderate measures fail in rebellion, cites French Revolution parallels, and warns of danger to property and life under rebel influence. It covers shipping news, prisoner costs, and security measures, with varied reports from Hamburg, Paris, and London.
An extract from a private letter from Altona notes the Professor Ansar hosting an entertainment for men banished from Sweden suspected of aiding regicide. Leonard Bourdon visits Hamburgh daily and seeks his nocturnal Jacobin meetings, raising scrutiny over the gatherings.
A London based listing notes voluntary yearly subscriptions during the war era. Items include House of Latoucne and Co in Dublin 200l, Hull Methodist Society 830k, Edinburgh subscription 1,000, Greenock merchants 26531, Cupar magistrates 260l, Rubergien and Kurkcudbright magistrates unknown sums, Aberdeen Advocates 2col, Windsor Foresters 636 15s, Salt Duties commissioners, Ipswich, Beccles in Suffolk 260 Guineas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Abingdon 300, Francis Cong Receiver General Staffordshire 201, Fire Side Society 11 members at Black Boy and Apple Charing Cross, Lord Cardigan's Servants 231 rqs.
Law report from Guildhall London notes sittings before Lord Kenyon and a common jury on Norris Y. Baker. The action sought 54 pounds 16s 3d. defendant paid into court 4 pounds 16s 3d, yielding a verdict for the plaintiff of one farthing and costs saved. Stage coaches faced multiple suits for undelivered parcels. Some entries in the defendant’s book were disputed as not in his staff’s handwriting. Lord Kenyon urged prevention of frauds on the public.
Nineteen persons were brought before the sitting Magistrate charged with holding a sedigious meeting and using blasphemous language. Officers and patrols searched a Cecil Court house in St Martin's Lane on Sunday night following private information. Prisoners described the group as a ree and Easy meeting with weekly gatherings and liquor. Bail granted to most. the landlord, president, and a self styled Transiter of Languages were detained. John K Millan, a late watchman, was examined for a Glasgow murder and committed for transport.
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