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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 27, 1793
Page
2
Debates reveal the motion to postpone the trial due to witnesses and counsel loss. Chancellor hints at deferral as the House signals new considerations, with Major Maitland and Mr. Burke influencing the approach before withdrawal. Excuses for attending the Call of the House noted for March sessions. adjournment follows.
London dispatches recount the Duke of York sailing from Sheerness aboard the Svrex frigate toward Holland with transport ships and guards to disembark at Williamstadt near Breda. A highway robbery hits the Duke of Arnot in Albemarle-street. Embargo removals are announced as French-cruiser actions, seizures, and commentary on the Revolution’s aftermath in Nice and Ireland.
On a fifth year of trial, Captain Hastings pleads for immediate conclusion and cites witnesses delayed by travel from India. He emphasizes constitutional rights, expences, and potential witness deaths, urging Lords to finish within the current Parliamentary session. Lords adjourn, promising continuation next day.
Thursday report notes Mr Sheridan and Managers pressing to end the lengthy trial by expunging Capt Gordon and Capt Williams from the minutes as irrelevant to justice. Court adjourned after a brief chamber session and resumed at Westminster Hall with the royal assent to money bills before adjourning for the day.
Three foreigners August Saceria Peter Saceria and Nicholas Bodala faced公开 at Bow Street for sending a challenge to Edward Shirley with intent to act as seconds. Bail set high for peace breach all jailed at New Prison after unable to raise sums. Earlier they were stopped in Hyde Park while heading to the Ring Priest. George Hill from Lisbon reported chased by two French privateers near the Isle of Wight but escaped. A French East Indiaman bound home rests at the Ganges mouth with cargo landed.
In Edinburgh yesterday James Robertson and Walter Berry faced charges for printing and publishing the seditious pamphlet The Political Progress of Great Britain. Evidence showed printing at Robertson's Office and sale at Robertson and Berry's South Bridge Street shop. Berry claimed he was in London and unaware of the pamphlet until return. The pamphlet circulated as Lord Gardenstone's or Mr Wallace's pamphlet, with Creech Bell and Balfour selling copies. verdicts found Robertson printed and published, Berry published. no explicit wicked intent noted, but punishment tied to libel. Bail granted for the defendants.
The case charged the plaintiff captain with seducing his wife and living with her adulterously. Evidence showed the couple married eight years, harmony earlier, and the wife involved with a lodger and the defendant’s house visitor. Testimony suggested liability questions on who knew the wife was married. Lord Kenyon noted the declaration resembled an apprentice decla ration and questioned the sufficiency without a center.
Yesterday afternoon the Queen hosted a drawing room at St James's after the Princesses arrived from Buckingham Palace. A duel between Lord Paget and J oan Kine, husband of the Irish Countess of Lanzszorouen, was attempted on Wednesday morning. They fought in Hyde Park and Bayswater then were taken to Great Marlborough Street, bound over to keep the peace. Marquis of Lorne and Mr Burzer acted as seconds.
The Miniser at War outlines steps to strengthen Belgium frontiers and front line forces, urging municipalities to supply uniforms and sailors while reinforcements to Dumourier and Custine are planned. Volunteers returning home may march to the front, with a projected Belgian and Rhine strategy debated. Dusors de Grancé nominated president as maneuvers stir controversy over military reforms. The assembly decorates Michel de Pelletier bust, discusses military rewards, and a clash between Geniffeau and Marat ends with Marat’s ejection. Fauchet faces accusations over priestly appointments and pastoral letters amid church controversy.
In Lyons two factions clash as well disposed citizens re elect the Mayor and Jacobins arrest a celebrant whose house lit for the event. A planned walk for Marie Antoinette and family falters as prisoners resist passing the departed Louis’s door. Bread riots surge in Paris with protests to the Convention. The Sorbonne mausoleum of Cardinal Richelieu is moved while Henry IV statue lies broken.
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