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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 02, 1797
Page
3
Fragmentary report notes a precise start time of four o clock with adjournment implied. Readable names or places are not present. The fragment preserves the sense of scheduling and concludes with adjournment.
Early morning dispatches from Admiral Hervey and Sir Ravon Abercrombie report a planned expedition against Porto Rico. ships returned after facing greater resistance than expected, with estimates suggesting 35,000 men needed to reduce the settlement. The article details mutiny at the Nore, measures at Sheerness, and ongoing tensions as authorities tighten control and prepare for possible naval actions.
Fragmented report lists officer appointments from various regiments including the 14th Light Dragoons and 141 Dragoons, with colonelcies and brigade commands in Britain and Ireland. Also notes a Clyde frigate wage payment, a Marine lieutenant's court martial dismissal, and the Old Bailey murder trial verdicts with imminent execution and dissection orders.
From the London Gazette June 3, Royal Navy reports capture of a four-gun privateer schooner with 25 men, 7 days from Morlaix, by vessels off the Lizard and further captures near St Christopher's and Guadaloupe. Includes average sugar price and bankrupts and dividends notices among updates.
Parliament debated a mutiny act and a seduction prevention bill. Key figures argued over penalties and definitions, with the Exchequer urging careful wording and a later third reading. The Nore mutiny situation prompted a separate bill to restrain shipboard contact with mutinous crews.
A plot uncovered at Newry leads to the seizure of pikes and revolutionary papers at Mr Lawson’s house. Suspects named Gordon Walker Glenny Lawson Harris Melling are detained or fled and sent under guard to Blairs camp. Also reports the Earl of Meath’s death from a duel wound and nocturnal depredations in Sligo and Longford including an armed attack on Rev. Montgomery’s house.
William Gascoyne Gafeorse was examined before the Bow Street magistrate on Saturday for pocketing a book containing bank notes drafts valued at 23001 and upwards, plus a lottery ticket, at a Bath club in Ruffell Street. An officer from Bow Street arrested him in Mortimer Street. a related lodgings parcel aided the case. Counsel Mr Knapp asked the examination be deferred to Wednesday next.
On Saturday at Guildhall Westminster Rapley was found guilty of keeping a common gaming-house in Orange Street Leicester-fields. Oldfield was likewise convicted for a similar offence in Oxendon Street. Saturday Thompson alias Ivory faced trial at the Old Bailey for altering a bill of exchange from 11s 6d to 20l 11s 6d with intent to defraud Tate Robarts and Co. Two witnesses were examined. a clerk’s aid was lost when his pocket was picked, and the prisoner was discharged.
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