Appointment of Governor and Task Master for Preston House of Correction
County Palatine of Lancaster issues notice for nominating three officers to Preston House of Correction to be held June 27. Annual salaries paid to Governor and Task-master, with no extra perquisites. Inquiries at Leigh Clerk of the Peace or Mr Nicholas Grimshaw Preston. Testimonials of character required. Leigh April 1799.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Palatine of Lancaster
House of Correction
Preston
Leigh
Nicholas Grimshaw
State Lottery Office promotes broad tickets and prizes
Irish State-Lottery 1799 notices advertise Bearns Danwithe and Co selling tickets in halves quarters eighths and sixteenths. Prizes include 40,000 and 30,000 entries with numerous smaller prizes. Funds, registers, and stamps described. orders by post, postpaid letters, and London master orders urged. Government securities bought and sold via commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bearns
Breornsby and Co
Cornhill
Royal Exchange
London
Alf
Taxwatan and Sox
Exeter
Fant
India
Southsea
Vonmisfion
Guide to Old Age and Nervous Cordial Advertised
An advertisement promotes Dr Baonus's A Guide to Old Age and a Nervous Cordial marketed as a cure for indecencies and nervous ailments. It lists multiple outlets across Albion Street Piccadilly Oxford Street and Bath, with various bottle sizes and prices, urging guardians to warn youth and seek the radical cure it claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baonus
É&C
Albion- Street
Robinson
York House
Piccadilly
E. Newbery
Paul's Church-yard
Ward
Holborn
Gray's Inn
Jeboule and Co
Bacon
Yeast Treatment Helps Poor Family Near Dromore
A Dublin area letter reports a poor family near Dromore benefiting from yeast therapy for putrid diseases. A man and his three sick relatives allegedly recovered after hourly doses of yeast in spring water, with Dr Hall of Parkrow near Dromore attesting to its efficacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dromore
Yeatt
Hall
Jong
Min Rea
M‘bride
Parkrow
Paris literary notes and theatre openings in May
May produced few notable literary pieces in Paris with two posthumous reads, Neaw Dow Quixote by Florian and an Fffay opera Fables pid their history by Bailly. La Harpe’s Course of Ancient and Modern Literature gains merit. The new Theatre des Troubadours opens under Leger. Tivoli and Gardens of Idalia and Elysium open. Delile’s fourth Aeneid fragment read to applause. Musicians Giroult and Piccini feature. the former dies in Versailles amid poverty and neglect. the latter continues composing and publishing a journal for the voice and piano.
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Florian
Bailly
la Harpe
Theatre du Vaudeville
Leger
Theatre Des Troubadours
Tivoli
Idalia
Elysium
Delile
Masician
Girouft
Versailles
Paris
King’s Chapel
Empire Des Lats
Thomas
Minster of the Interior
Piccini
Defformery
Bouffet
Beaumarchais remembered as fearless patron of liberty
The foreign journal reflects on Beaumarchais death in Paris about a month ago of apoplexy. It notes his varied genius in literature and business, support for America during the war, and his refusal to flatter rulers. It praises his modest manners, generosity, and long friendships. The piece also mentions the Paris Museum of Antiques opening in September with attempts to illuminate the Apollo of Belvidere, Muses, and Laocoon.
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Beaumarchais
French Literatur
Pierre Singustin Carron de Beaumarchais
Garces
Paris
Collen-Harieville
C. Guilin
America
France
Congress
Lord Stormont
Hearts and Sciences
Museum of Antiques
Italy
Belvidere
Rome
Venus of Medicis
Florence
Masis After Getting Forgery Trial in New York Indorsement
A Hamburgh native, Masis After Getting, was tried for forging an endorsement on a 307 pounds six pence note drawn in New York in 1799. The case featured forged indorsements, a London clerk, and attempts to dispatch money to England. He confessed but defense cited insanity. jury found him guilty and he faced the death sentence alongside others, with nineteen transported and twenty six confined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masis
Hamburgh
New York
Samuel Crop
W. Rowlett
London
Meffis
Peerfall
Kelland
Cotterel
Birmngham
Wefraud
Henry Schoei
Pell
Ketland Carterel
England
Peerfalt
Obrerved
Graves=end
Eingland
Allter
Hearn
Aptheuty
Mr. Schneier
Rod. Walker
Levi
William Gordon
Yoke Williams
Neerland
Griffith
Edward Rapine
Henry Bageard
Charles Lifney
Moses Asher
Letter from Captain Thossas Alexander on Harmony at sea
A maritime letter dated May 3 1799 from Captain Thossas Alexander aboard Harmony reports the Revolutionnaire frigate's return and notes nearby Clyde ships including Garthland Favourite Unity Recovery and many more are all well. He mentions remarkably fine weather since the fleet's departure and the Commodore's attentiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gapt
Thossas Alexander
Harmony
Greanock
Madeira
W. Difant
Revolutionnaire
Garthland
Favourite
Unity
Recovery
Clyde
Turton
Ross
Peggie
Tarbet
Chance
Fairrie
Lady Bruce
Beheading of John Teronde in Toulouse 1562
In 1562 John Teronde a Protestant Advocate was beheaded at Toulouse by a Parliament sentence though he was not found guilty. The proclamation claimed inward thoughts favored the persecutors and condemned him to death with estate confiscation. A second note explains a method to press plant shapes from leaves onto paper using ink and oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Teronde
Toulouse
Mont
London Markets Report Mixed Wheat Shortage and Cattle Prices
The London markets note a thin demand with a tight wheat supply and varied prices across grains. Hogs, cattle, and lambs show active trading with regional price listings and notable figures from firms and market town sellers.
Distant Country Markets Report
Market wires from Nuwareyy on June 2 show wheat and barley prices firming with oats and beans also trading. Quotations include wheat around 66s per year, barley near 368s, and beans around 435s with oats near 36s to 40s. Reading market notes cite additional prices and futures levels for wheat barley oats and beans, reflecting overseas demand and local trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nuwareyy
Veto al
Gestation Periods Across Farm Animals in Early Memoir
The Philomathetical Society of Paris reports on animal gestation using 160 cow cases with days from 222 to 280 and beyond, 100 horse cases with foaling spread from day 111 to 399, 17 swine cases with varied foaling days, and 130 rabbit cases clustered around 26 to 334 days, noting 70 days between extremes. Hedifo cites C Dargets on owl eggs showing hatching across days 23 to 19 and 7th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CG. Tefier
Philomatical Society of
Paris
Spirigveys Payent Antiscorbutics Claim Universal Relief
From West Indies and America reports the Proprietor of Spirigvey's Antiscorbutics claims the drops cure rheumatism ulcers gout and many diseases from debility caused by voyages. They say the remedy restores health when first symptoms appear and can be taken in any climate without confinement, sold at Solpha Square Dispensary and general vendors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mekenans
West Indies
America
Spirigvey
Bolly
Solpha Square
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