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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 21, 1799
Page
1
London June 19 1799 buyers invited for sale on June 25 26 in the Long Room Custom-house London of assorted export and domestic goods including textiles leather grocer y and other items. Catalogues available for Calico printing presses and related wares with payment due by July 13 or deposits forfeited and goods resold.
County Palatine of Lancaster seeks a Governor and Master for the Preston House of Correction. Annual salaries of 1301 and 1301 for the Governor and Master respectively, with no further perquisites. Nomination to occur at the General Annual Session in Preston on June 27. Inquiries to the Clerk of the Peace at Leigh or to Mr. Nicholas Grimshaw in Preston. Epistolary testimonials requested. J Taylor Deputy announces April 24, 1799.
In a June King’s Bench session before Lord Kenyon and a special jury, Cuthbert and another versus Haley and another concerns a security bond for 13401 pounds on promissory notes discounted by Planck, a Long Acre refiner. The defendant paid partial sums and issued a bond tainted by usury, but the court held the plaintiffs could recover, noting bona fide holders were not at fault. jury verdict for plaintiffs with liberty to move for entry up.
Hamlin sues Bath to London mail coach proprietors for misdelivered luggage after a trunk and goods left on the pavement. Lord Kenyon holds defendants liable for baggage up to the contracted limit of passenger luggage, though the exact allowance is debated. Verdict for plaintiff, ten shillings.
This action, brought by Mr. Cowan of Ely Place, seeks 220 guineas from Captain Hankey. The case involves a 1795 loan of 400 guineas to Weston, a confidential clerk, repaid partially, then drawn as a draft on Down and Co Bankers. The draft was paid from Cowan’s funds, and the court ruled in Cowan’s favor to recover 220.
At four o'clock in the morning the river Elke near Whitby surged during half ebb then was checked and returned in heavy waves. Water rose swiftly sweeping away a ford crossing a wagon. The event mirrors a similar four year old occurrence at the same hour and day.
Thursday evening a Mr B from a respectable Kentington family was charged with robbing Jane Gibbs in Kensington Gardens of ten guineas a guinea and two seven shilling pieces. The prosecutrix testified she sat in a box when the prisoner sat down and attempted to entice her, causing a struggle over a book with the money. A servant, A Biddiard, pursued and secured him, and the prisoner allegedly confessed to the robbery as they were taken to the office in a coach, throwing the money into her lap. The prisoner denied the charge, claiming he sat to treat and fled when trouble arose. Witnesses said the prosecutrix had recently tried to extort money from others, and the magistrate committed the prisoner for further examination next Monday.
On Saturday fe'nnight seven French fishing boats were brought into Lewes by a sloop of war and a Hastings privateer. The fishers were sent prisoners to Dover. A white partridge near Bopeep alehouse suggests a nest nearby. A large lizard frightened Pevensey schoolgirls. a governess and pupils fled before it, then the intruder was killed. George Thomas, a saddler, drowned in a garden pond at Duckfield. body recovered within half an hour and attempts to resuscitate failed. Earlier, Privates of the Denbighshire Militia bathing in the Adur near Shoreham bridge saw one drown in the soft, muddy bottom as swimming was impossible.
A marriage at Northichapel Church Sussex led to a clerk ordered pairing. A man stood left of the bride as the intended groom, prompting a shock when it was revealed the wrong man was to wed the bride. The clergywoman questioned legality if the switch had completed.
A dense parliamentary session features debates on the Legacy City Exemption Ball, taxes on salt, and loans. Mr Taylor discusses the Nabob of Oude's deposition, urging copies of dispatches and factual documents while Dundas warns against broad disclosures.
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