Two Hundred Pounds Reward Offered for Mail Robbery
The General Post Office offers a 200 pounds reward for the capture and conviction of the robber who stopped a Mail boy between 10 and 11 near Farnborough on July 3. The thief rode a horse with a white face, wore a drab greatcoat, and carried vowel bags for Sevenoaks and other towns. An accomplice may claim the same reward if helper or information leads to conviction. The notice urges swift apprehension under the Postmaster General's direction.
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General Post Office
Tu Fday
Bromley
Severnaks
Farnborough
Clack
Pratt’s Bottom
Riverhead
Croydon
London
Sevenoaks
Lamberhurst
Kye
Tunbridge, Battie
Hastings
Francis Freeling
Custom-House London Sale of Prohibited Goods 1798
Custom House London announces a sale of prohibited India goods and home consumption items by order of the Commissioners of Customs. Numerous items including silks lace gloves tea coffee tobacco and groceries are listed with viewing locations at Greenland Dock and other yards. Purchases must be paid within four days of sale or deposits are forfeited and goods resold.
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Custom-House
London
His Majesty
India
Geneva
East Dndig
Greenland Dock
Rotherhithe
Todd's
Cobham’s
St. Saviour’s Dock
King’s Tobacco Warehouse
Tower Hill
His Majesty’s Warehouse
Cutton-house
Auction notice for two freehold estates in Oxford and Gloucestershire
Two properties go to auction in Cheltenham and Mickleton with tenants at will. Lot 1, Fifield parish Oxfordshire, a capi tal mansion, outbuildings, garden, arable land, meadow and pasture totaling about 418 acres. Lot 2, Mickleton parish Gloucestershire, seven enclosed parcels of rich meadow and pasture totaling about 520 acres. Possession offered April 5. Inquiries to Mr Stone Pull-court or Fowke and Trueman solicitors.
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Cheltenham
Fifield
Oxford
Stow
Burford
Barnabas Collet
Mickletow
Glouchéter
Wm. Fennet
Mr. Stone
Pull-court
Tewkesbury 5
Messrs
Fowke and Trueman
Tewkesbury
Perjury and Libel Cases in Westminster Kings Bench
A July hearing before Gittings Elfore, Lord Kenyon, and a special jury tackled an indictment for perjury tied to an equity liquidation bill. The proceeding noted the prosecution by Mingay and Reader and defense by Frilse and Garrow, with mixed results as the bill’s terms and the indictment intertwined. A separate case, THE KING v. CUTHEL, charged a Middlerow Holborn bookseller with publishing libel via G Wakefield’s reply to the Bishop of Llandaff, and eight jurors appeared as the names were called before the session.
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Court of King‘s Bench
Westminster
Gittings Elfore
Kenyon
Vaughan
Mingay
Reader
Frilse
Garrow
Haine
V. Cuthel
Cuthel
Middlerow
Holborn
G. Wakefield
Llandaff
Lerten
Ing
Crown
John Hanson
Bruton-street
Bond-street
James Wyatt
Board of Works
John Mackell
Park-lane
Mackell
Green Park
Mr. Mackell
Mr. Wyatt
Joan Hanson
Murder and fraud trial at Old Bailey recounts juror attendance and indictments
The Old Bailey hears cases including a verdict of manslaughter for a boxing fatality near Mile End, a Mary Ann Winter conviction for manslaughter, and a swindling money lender case. It covers juror fines for nonattendance, a libel case against a smith and a Park Lane maker, and a swindling scheme involving a false loan and forged Morris letters.
Calamities Strike Norfolk and Nearby Counties in One Day
A Norfolk report details lightning kills three cows and injures a colt at Mr Kidder’s near Borncett St Marys while a fourth animal and a fat sheep perished. Across the region a drowning tragedy at Barking River claims two soldiers with one witness a brave comrade who attempted rescue. Other incidents include a Norwich rescue, a vagrant apprehension in Chelmsford, a Saffron Walden post lad robbed, a Herne Bay drowning, and a fatal cart accident at Brookland leaving a widow and four children.
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Borncett St. Mary’s
Norfolk
North Middlesex
Barking River
Norwich
John Garney
Wiseout
Nour Ceastle
Roger Kerrison
Dennis Downey
Tiger
Jamaica
Chelmsford
William Barrett
Rose and Crown
Saffron Walden
Cambridge
Hengstone-hedges
Canterbury
Herne Bay
James Waneren
Royal Glamorgan Militia
Prorhing
Davin Hocsen
Brookland
Two London Crime Cases From Bow Street Sessions
John Tarrant guilty of stealing four houses from William Gevers. Eta Dominic Kilgannon indicted for the wilful murder of James Healy on June 3. The public have long held Mary Pearce as a key witness for the Crow, with multiple examinations before Bow Street magistrates. She persisted in stating that the prisoner struck the deceased with a dagger from a cane, and that the murder weapon was involved.
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Thomas Kniblett
Wim
Turner
Mile End
Hare
Justice Foster
Wild-street
Mary Pearce
Justice Lawrence
Drerdi& of
Mary Ann Winter
Macy Ann Stone
Abraham Winter
Royal Oak
Whitechapel
John Tarrant
Wm. Gevers
Dominic Kilgannon
James Healy
Bow-street
Pregnant Ladies Offered Short Term Lodging and Care
Notices promise honorable treatment and secrecy for pregnant women needing temporary retirement. Accommodations provided by WAITE the surgeon or Mrs ITF midwife at London-house-yard near St Paul’s. Restorative Sale Pills sold at 1s 2d per box. Also Mr White’s address about concealed pregnancy and accommodation terms. Letters post-paid for advice on women and children.
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Bing
Waite
Itf
London-house
St Paul’s Church
White
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Yardley Church End
Puntingford
Stevenage
Medis. Spurrier and Phipps
James Marcormy
Yardley Church End Farm
Tuntineford
William Pritchard
Corn- Exchange
Hertford
Ware
Bocufield
Stevenacs
Roysten
Hoddesdon
Hitchin
Baldeck
Mefirs
Spurrier and Phipps
Copthall-court
Throwmarton Streets
W.B
Oxfordshire
Gloucestershire
LAW Report
Old Bailey
Frederick Molyneaux
John
William Piking
Guenay
Meirs.Pilling
Howden
Yorkshire
York
Col
Fa Goodl
G. H. Morris
Baker Street
Portugal
Morris
Richmond
Pilling
Bakerstreet
W. Pilling
Frederick Molyneux
Morrrs
Garpmeal
Nated
Mount-street
Im Square
Beth
Guildhall
Ipswich
Joly
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