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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 02, 1797
Page
3
Crowds rally from Bantry to Cork with 15 000 troops mobilized and volunteers: lawyers, nobles, and Catholic corps offer service. Admiral Errums Tone reports storm and possible fleet dispersion near Bantry. locals pledge loyalty, prepare flannel waistcoats, and promise to burn corn to deny invaders. Courts demand oaths. multiple residents refuse to testify, facing jail.
On Thursday Rev John Torrens a Derry magistrate with Kerry militia from Coleraine visited Kilrea to arrest four men whose examinations were lodged but who had fled. On Friday and Saturday summonses were served on many residents near Grace Hill at the house of Mr James Stuart Antrim.
The pastor circulated a sermon urging loyalty to the sovereign and law, warning parishioners against French influence during a feared invasion. It emphasizes obedience, unity, and resisting domestic enemies, with a Christmas Day date of December 25, 1796.
Principal clauses explain amending the Supplementary Militia act. Appointed men need not wear uniforms or identify sect. deputies may amend returns, direct fresh ballots, and correct exemptions. Officers indemnified for errors. if insufficient noncommissioned officers exist, recruits may be drawn from discharged troops. Lieutenants may billet militia without hindering Justices. balloters pay 1 6s 1d for non service, substitutes, five years barred from balloting again. Five feet two inches deemed unfit. substitutes may enroll when invited. Overseers may provide substitutes as directed and be reimbursed from rates. Militia members could be chosen for other militia. subdivision meetings fix substitute payments. price of volunteers determined, to be altered or repealed this session.
The Right Hon. Baron Termeestown died at Dublin on the tenth of the month aged sixty. He was a son of the Kingdom of Ireland. A roof collapse at a newly erected house near Snow Hill Bath during a high wind buried a man, his wife, and four children. They were released soon after, but one boy is feared not to survive.
The act explains amendments to enable the raising of a provisional cavalry force. It details exemptions by service dates, horses required for affestation, ballot rules for Yeomanry Cavalry service, substitute requirements, deputy lieutenant duties, and penalties for substitutions. Provisions cover horse heights, sworn protestant status, and meetings to finalize classifications.
Oxford reports the Duke of Marlboroughs annual charity of seven fat oxen and over 1000 bread loaves distributed to Blenheim poor. In a bitter cold snap the thermometer dropped to two degrees below zero at the Observatory and zero at the infirmary. Charles Walker demonstrated artificial cold with snow and nitrous acid freezing quicksilver. Gloucester coachman Thomas Fones was crushed when thrown from a coach box on Northleigh Heath and his leg broken in a cold accident.
A General Court Martial convenes in Southampton on Thursday to try Captain Charles Firaszt of the 16th Regiment of Foot. The presiding officer is Lieutenant Colonel Archibald McAristair of the 35th Regiment, with a long list of officers serving as members from various regiments.
Yesterday George Frankland Haldred and Ann Burgess were examined on suspicion of involvement in a plan to forge Hull Bank notes. A copper plate engraved Hull Bank and five hundred notes were found with the prisoners at a London street engraver shop. The engraver reported attempts to hire him to engrave the plate while posing as associates of the Hull Bank. Although notes were incomplete and undealt with, possessing them is a misdemeanor. they were sent to the Lord Mayor for examination.
Henry Hamilton of Mapam Antigua describes relief from goat attacks and fevers after using Spilsbury's Drops in Dominica and England. He credits improved health, strength, and spirits to the medicine and notes sales at Soho Square Dispensary and other patent medicine vendors.
Birth notices include Viscountess Deerhurst in Streatham and Henry Read of Old Jewry marrying Miss Dixon in Fitzroy Square, with other unions including Mr Dexter Roberts and Miss Phipps, and Dr Miller of Doncaster to Miss Edwards. Died notices list Thomas Seddon, Major William Henry Birch, Lord W. Murray, Sir Benjamin Tibbs, Luke Gardiner, James Bradley, Robert Fall, and Sir MacLaurin among others. details cover residences in Dover Street Newgate Leicester Square Hampton Green and Edinburgh. A general market report notes wheat supply and price behavior along with banking and currency state.
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