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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 02, 1791
Page
4
The council on Tuesday last restored peace and issued a proclamation inviting all citizens aged 20 and over to join a Burgess guard. Arms are provided for the needy and volunteers, including magistrates and clergy, guard day and night as cannon line gates are palisaded. The town resembles a besieged place while the council meets continually.
Noon from Buckingham to Windsor Lodge. King to receive Lords Address on two o clock with impeachment reports expected Monday. Guildhall vote grants Wilkes 600 pounds amid disputes over estate funds. Miraseau appointed Adjudicataire of Argenteuil Abbey. various European political notes and a spate of urban notices including mills resuming after Albion fire.
A General Court investigated Pitt’s bill to remove unreceived dividends from stockholders held in trust. Speakers argued the Bank as public trustees cannot reclaim funds without stockholder consent. Proceedings noted precedents and limited unclaimed dividends. General Court adjourned to wait further decision.
The Carlisle committee reports the right of election for Carlisle in Cumberland lies with freemen of the city admitted and worn, sons of freemen or seven years apprenticeship. It declares John Christian Curwen and Wilson Braddyll elected for Carlisle. The petitioners’ counsel spoke as the committee adjourned awaiting their report, likely in favor of the sitting Members. The Fowey, Stirlingshire, and Pontefract updates note ongoing counsel sums and evidence for ancient return methods.
Mr. Grezon notes the East trade annually drains 700,000 worth of silver from the Roman Empire. Currently tea imports from China double that silver outflow. An old man his daughter and granddaughter aged under eleven have been convicted of felony at Wigan sessions and a Liverpool subscription funds sending the youngest girl into Philanthropic Society protection.
The House of Lords Committee announces the noblemen chosen to serve on the Court of Judicature for India. The list names the members who will preside over trials of offences committed in British India and related jurisdictions.
The Roman Catholic proceedings face internal rifts between the Catholic Committee led by Lord Petre and Sir John Throckmorton and a majority of Catholics who resist oath terms. Objections cover labeling Protestants, deposing Kings, church authority, and dispensation to oath. The piece argues for a reconciled variation and endorses the Irish Catholic oath as sufficient.
The text compares religious tolerance in Holland Germany and America, notes the Imperial Court’s inclusive reforms for Protestants, Sweden’s easing of Lutheran rigidity, and argues for broad Catholic toleration in England. It also reports on the Wakefield gaol model praised by Lord Loughborough, plus a meteorological notice for February 1791 at Edmonton with wind, temperature, and rainfall data.
A nineteenth day draw lists prizes above twenty five pounds with numbers and prize amounts. The ticket drawn for a five thousand pound prize was sold by Richardson, Goontucx, and Co. in a whole ticket sold January 3rd, with prior sales of Nos 17,010 29 983 and 49 634.
Arrived at Plymouth with the Rush Packet Lefee from St Eu strita London from New Brunswick Perseverance Cross and Hero Rackstraw from London and Jersey Packet St Croix from Jersey. Sailed the Greyhound and Ranger catchers on a cruise wind east-southeast.
PORTSMOUTH MARCH 3 Arrived the Amsterdam Hayes from Amsterdam London and Rose Stevens from Dover Sailed the Felicity Burrell for Sunderland and Friendslip Southcote for London.
A violent Dover wind wrecked chimneys and toppled two house frames near limekilns. A brig towed ashore bottom up east of town, believed Dutch bound for London. Its crew feared drowned. Cargo included brandy juniper berries and odds and ends. a cafe crate with old hock samples addressed to John Spareman in Westminster was recovered.
Ships arriving and sailing between Plymouth London and Deal with cargo movements from New Brunswick Jamaica Cadiz and Virginia. Vessels named Leefee Woolf Mackie Goodwin Ablin and Joseph Cheap touch at various ports. Birth notices report a daughter for Hon J T Townshend and a premature birth for Lady Duncannon.
Yesterday at Lambeth Church Robert Lynn banker Cornhill to Miss Cannon of Portugal free. At St George's Hanover Square Nathaniel Lee Aton to Mills Rycroft eldest daughter of Sir Richard Rycroft. William Humfrys jun to Miss Coomes Hendon. Radcombe Somerset Rev William Coney to Miss Wickham Wells. Lisbon 15th ult Capt Charles Henry Lane to Miss Parminter. Dublin special licence Marcus Beresford MP to Lady Frances Leeton. Edinburgh George Ramsay banker to Miss Jean Hamilton Wishaw. Cambridge Thomas Seymour Hyde to AiG Jobatee.
Died. Sunday George Ringrose woollen-draper Cornhill. Wednesday Bridget Player aged 102 at St Luke's Workhouse. Lately Cork Samuel Maylor alderman. Friday Thomas Patton Alder man of Chester and eminent banker. At Woodford Essex died aged 78 Thomas Crane. Mails Holland Flanders Waterford Dublin. Stock prices list BANK Stocks 189 188 5-8ths. India Bonds, Navy Bills, Annuities and various consols quoted. Morning and Noon tickets listed.
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