Parliament adjourned after low attendance counted out
In the House of Commons at four o'clock Mr Speaker counted out the House with 27 Members present, forcing adjournment due to the lack of a quorum.
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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 01, 1791
Page
2
Prince of Wales reviews dragoons and dinner at Egham
Yesterday seven in the morning the Prince of Wales, with Major General Lake, traveled from Carlton House to Ashford Common to review the 16th regiment of light dragoons after which a grand dinner for officers was held at Egham. The Court of Directors met at the East India House and adjourned to today at noon. Thursday is discussed as the prorogation day for Parliament. The Roman Catholic Bill and related ecclesiastical issues provoke party debate among Lords and Dissenters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince of Wates
Lake
Carlton House
Ashford Common
16Th Regiment of Light Dragoons
Egham
East India House
Doctors Commons
Hastines
Bencar
House of Commons
Fitzgersett
Captain Morratt
Charlton
Kent
Money
Walthamstow
Doctor Ayrton
Drury Lane Theatre
Christopher Wren
Albermarle Street
Bishop of
Duruam
William Beer
Hampshire
Bister of
Taylor
Lancashire
Lord Grosvenor
Court of Common Pleas
Thomas Warners
Bell
Salisbury Square
France
Army regulations on uniform dress for recruits
Recruits arriving at Chatham to receive uniform dress with a fleece jacket trousers round hat and fittings fitted by regimental tailors to save nearly two shillings per man. Field officers to wear two epaulets, flank officers limited to wings, halberd replaced by short pike, troopers to have copper wire epaulet guarding arm. Recommendation to allow East and West Indies troops to wear round hats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chatham
East and West Indies
Durham Bishoprick and church state in historic view
The passage surveys the Durham Bishoprick's origins with St. Cuthbert, notes the Norman era cathedral, and outlines its powers and revenues. It comments on moral and legal issues of the era, canal commerce, libel law, jury summoning, and religious shifts from Betreton to modern times, ending with a remark on Prussia and church affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham
Cuthbert
Henry VII
Mary
Earl of
Northumberland
Hexham
Cumberland
Church of Rome
University of Oxford
Lord Gurencarrn
Cornwallis
Nathaniel Lord Crew
Talbot
Richard Trevor
Egerton
Courts of Justice
Star Chamber
England
Liverpool
Manchester
Rochdale
Staffordshire
France
Frederick the Great
Hastings Defense in War Crimes Trial in Lords
In a lengthy defense before the Lords, Warren Hastings argues the charges against him are unproved and the trial has been extended unfairly. He contends his actions in India raised revenues and protected the empire, rejects accusations of extortion, cruelty, and disobedience, and insists his conduct was prudent under wartime conditions and imperial law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Cheyt Syng
Cheyt
Lord Cornwallis
Begum
Surajah Dowlah
Nabob
Board of Control
Larkin
Eyre Coote
Hastings
Eyre
Mr. Auriel
Auriel
Lyter
Madras
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lond Onk
Army Regulations
House OF Lords
Westminster Hall
Warren Hastings
Abpfines
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