13 Jan 1796
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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 13, 1796
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss interest, lending terms, a lender placing a son in a position, and education payments. The text is garbled, with unclear dates, names, or places, making reliable extraction difficult. The fragment hints at board and education payments and a proposal to modify established terms.
Fragmentary advertisement lists ESSENTIAL SALT f and Lemon offers for removing iron stains from linen muflin lace and other fabrics. Mentions price 18 but text is garbled with misread letters and scattered items.
In a London court, the plaintiff a French woman sued the defendant Mr. Donald for breach of promise of marriage. Testimony from Mr. O Keefe and others portrayed the plaintiff with an irreproachable character, while accounts of cohabitation with various men emerged. The judge lamented the lengthy testimony, and the jury returned a verdict for the defendant.
A large Armagh county meeting chaired by Viscount Gastorp discusses suppressing mob violence against Roman Catholics. It calls for a magistrates commission to sit Tuesdays and Saturdays in Armagh Chapter Room, funds for secret information, and regular meetings to report on the unrest and enforce legal measures.
The trial at the Old Bailey opened with the case of a servant accused of stealing from his master’s iron chest. Evidence showed the chest was kept locked in a dressing room and the prisoner might have used a key to access it during the burglary in September.
Hicks's Hall sessions heard grand jury testimony on a letter urging silence and a confession from the prisoner. Clerks testified a glove in Ann Hailes's box belonged to him and described how valuables came to him through worm digging for a bird. Mr Justice Heath summed the case, and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty Death.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a fox chase near Haverford West with Whit Hounds forced along a river course. Reference to operations on the twelfth day and a living person named Muéeus is noted. The tide is described as full, complicating the pursuit.
A New York report from November details a deadly disorder raging from August to October that killed about 1400 people. The outbreak began in a congested district blamed on filth and poor sanitation, with spread tied to unsanitary ground conditions and crowded conditions in the area.
An old report notes a five minute pale aurora like display with red yellow green and blue hues seen in the Southeast under overcast skies. A Strand lodgings resident, despondent and once cheerful, killed himself with a pistol after discussingly expressing a belief in a right to end life when happiness ends.
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