Fourth Day Trials At Westminster Sessions Indict Richard Fuller
Richard Fuller faced a capital charge for distributing seditious printed papers to British soldiers. Witnesses testifying at the Hammersmith Road meeting described the handbills and remarks urging allegiance to country. The jury found him guilty with mercy urged. sentences followed for various offences including theft, burglary, and highway robbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Fuller
Anthony Lowe
Hammersmith
Leech
Lowe
Calder
Justice Burre
de Jury
Gurney
Indi&ment
Baron
Elizabeth
Allen
John Morton
Elswerd M'Glue
Mary Clan
William Humphrys
Edward Burton
David Farrel
Thomas Gregory
George Peil
John Purdy
John Haynes
William Greenwitch
William Barker
James Saunders
John Tann
Patric Keough
Henry Ives
Thomas Davis
Samuel Joseph
Stafford
Lelt
John Holmes
Mary Bryan
Sarah Draper
John Frerard
Gabriel Grignery
Thomas Lingham
Mary Catherine Bulkley
Ann Thompson
Thomas Kennedy
Charles Carthy
Tho, Dowden
James Anderson
John Bailey
Ann Ditton
Elizabeth Allen
John Hughes
Newgate
Public Office at Bow Street Holds Bail for Bank Note Suspects
George Baxter and Thomas Fotheringham Barrington were brought before Magistrate R Fore on the charge of possessing Guildford Bank Notes. Evidence from Shore and Hudson was read as informations. The prisoners maintained their Wednesday account that notes came from a man named Palmer of Saffron Hill who has since absconded. They were committed for trial at the next Surrey county affizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Baxter
Thomas Fotheringham Barrington
R. Fore
Guildford
Shore
Mr. Hudson
Palmer
Saffron-hill
Surry
Melancholy accident at New Swan Chelsea ends in death
On Thursday a waterman Thomas Warford was wounded by gun wadding during cup racing at New Swan Chelsea. Surgeon Mr Morrison attended but could not save him. Warford died within minutes after urging protection for his wife and five children. In the same night thieves entered Charlotte Street Bedford square via the Muftum Gardens and stole linen left out all night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Swan
Chelsea
Thomas Warford
Lambeth
Morrison
Morrisoi
Charlotte-Street
Bedford-square
The Heir at Law at Haymarket Theatre
A new Comedy by Mr. Coleman titled The Heir at Law was performed last night. The language alternates between poignant sentiment and languid parts that would benefit from trimming. Dr Panglos the Tutor is well finished, Cecily Zeele and Dick Douglas resemble Morton's characters, and the Epilogue was well received with universal applause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Coleman
Heir At Law
Panglos
Cecily
Zeele
Dick Douglas
Jefe
Tragic Death of Chief Clerk Thoroton in Dublin
In Dublin on Saturday evening 6 pm Robert Thoroton Elq Chief Clerk of the House of Commons died by suicide with a pistol at his North Earl Street apartments. He suffered from nervous illness and fear of blindness, amid a collapse in temper and a long night of blood and gunfire. An inquest was held and his estate assessed with substantial sums. Mr Watson is discussed as a potential successor to the clerkship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Tuororon
Elq
House of Connons
North Earl Street
Thoroton
Geld
Duke of Rutlana
Fhoroton
House of Commons
Watson
Treland
Camden
Ireland
Dublin
Oye
John James Evans
Portsmouth
Star and Garter
Era
Simon Longstaff
Sunderland
Furrender Fay
Gadduall
London
John Jeremy
James’s Street
Piccadilly
Linena
Guildvalle
W. Abdrne
Christophere Street
Finsbury-square
Guildwall
Daylor
Foreastreet
Lambeth
X.matson
Unionftreet
Bishopsgate Street
Oilarefiners
Furrender
Guildtrad
Ermine Thomas Hoddlefs
Stowe
Lincolnshire
Farretder
Rein Deer Inn
Lincoln
Bridge Inn
Bishop Wearmouth
Peter Whitaker
Manchester
Grecian's Head
Lawrence
Southampton
Mitre Inn
Sonomas Sell
Southcote
Middiefx
Guildhall
Daniel War
Tipton
Staffordshire
Nailor
A. Arins
Wedobury
Obert Farthing
Armed Ruffians Raid Huffey House in Kildare
A July 7 night attack in Waterstown, Kildare, saw about a dozen armed men demand arms from Nicholas Huffey and his family. Mrs Huffey warned them, shots were fired into the house, Huffey wounded a man entering the parlour, and the group fled with their injured companion. A subsequent raid on widow Hanlon yielded a large sum of money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sallins
Nicholas Huffey
Waterstown
Kildare
Huffey
Collec
Mr. Huffey
Hanlon
Polish Emigrants Side with Turks in Eastern Galicia Front
A Vienna letter dated 28 alt reports Polish emigrants joining discontented Turks on Galicia’s eastern frontier. Key conspirators include an advocate and a former Russian officer using forged seals for passports. they were arrested. A two o'clock fire in Great Portland Street gutted a tobacconist’s and nearby homes, with uninsured losses on Mr Scolefield’s property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Gallicia
Portland Street
Scolefield
Rawlinson
Spilsbury Antiscorbutic Drops Advertised in London
Fresh supplies of Spilsbury's Antiscorbutic Drops are weekly received from Mrs Spilsbury at Soho Square and sold by E Newbery at St Pauls Churchyard. A new edition of Spilsbury's Treatise on the Scurvy Gout Diet and Remedy, with over 260 plates, is published in octavo format for price of one shilling and sixpence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sfirsbury
Port au Prince Battle Report from Saint Domingo 1797
Extracted dispatch from Lieutenant-Colonel Simcoe detailing British operations around Port-au-Prince and Tourmier, May 1797. It describes feints, battery seizures, cannon losses, and coordinated columns under Deffources, De Peyster, and Montalembert against Touiffant and Leogane, including heroics by Major Pouchét and Captain Couchet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Streft
Henry Dundas
Simcoe
St. Domingo
Port-au-Prince
Touiffant
Mirebalais
Grand Bois
Leogane
Grenier
Port-au- Prince
Tonislant
Baron Montatembert
Thomazeau
Touifant
Cul de Sac
Desfources
Zoop
L’arcahaye
Deffources
Tourmier
Aimburcade
L’hofpitre
Boutilier
St. Laurent
de Peyster
Pouchét
Jeremic
Gul de Sac
Baron Montalembert
O’gorman
Croix Des Bouquets
Montalembert
Comte Manoux
Couchet
Abergavenny
Major Clay
Viscomte
Fournier
Gray
Port-au-Prince campaigns and naval dispatches detailed
A lengthy extract details military actions near Saint Domingue in 1797, praising officers Desfources and other colonial troops for breaches on Port Grenier and St Laurent, with kills and wounds tallied for multiple regiments. It includes dispatches from Henry Harvey on captured prizes and an Ireland proclamation dissolving Parliament, plus sugar price averages and bankruptcy notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bar Dittie
Tam
Couriet
Rodanes
Coneprat
Mouchet
Gener Churchill
Irois
Maitland
Churchill
Apri
Laurent
Port Gurring
Jean Kina
Major Clay
Goth
Irish Brigade
Ports St. Laurent
Boutillier
Desfources
Des Pestris
Jeremie
Arma
Port Grenier
Chafféurs Royaux
de Pestris
Chaffeurs de York
Chaffeurs de Prince of Wales
Desources Regiment
Haly
Irish ‘Brigade
Pouchet
de la Rue
Defigurces
Eviere
Prince of Wales’s
Chaffeurs
Babi and
Campagne
le Pine
L'Artigonave
Ditto
E. B. Littlehales
Port Fezach
West Indies
Surya
S .Extratt
Lettir
Harrow
Cotmander
Chisf
Leeward Islands
Evan Nepean
Prince of Wales
Fare Royal Bay
Martinshire
Mathereot
Rangery
Wilmington
Trinidad
Nobby
Wefeafet
We Indies
Little Mary
Sutinam
Philadelphia
Vanguard
Hero
London
Paramanbon
George Card
Surinam
St. Thomas's
Fury
Snow Rebecca
Demarara
General
H. Bloomsbury
Barbadors
Martinique
Schoener Phoenix
Jacob Perkins
Tobagd
Lealand
A. Bunain
Guadaloupe
Sarra
Cruz
Tortolla
Atantic
Tomas Stockel
Tenefiffe
Lapwing
Adelagarde
Bartolome Table
Mafter
Cuba
Puérto Rico
Porto Rico
Arctitura
Scipio
Jean Kirby
Henry Harvey
Harvey
la Bayonaire
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