English Parliament in Session Read Bills and Adjourn
In the House of Lords on Friday March 4 Their Loggships met at three o'clock and read a few bills before adjourning to the next day.
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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 04, 1791
Page
2
Exeter Election and Canada Bill Debates in Commons
The House appoints committee to examine the Exeter election merits. Pitt moves to amend the 1774 Canada Act to divide Canada into Upper and Lower provinces with a local council and assembly, aiming to regulate law, religion, and taxation. Fox and others discuss implications as the debate proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pitt
Speaker
Canada
Upper
Lower Canada
Pit
Government of
Engish, &c
Great Britain
House of Assembly
Council
Sur Point
England
Upper Canada
Fox
Dundas
Attorney
King and court notices from London dispatches
London reports detail a nine o clock flag hunt near Salt Hill, a lean Levee at St James's, and the King’s Windsor Lodge journey. Prominent audiences with Pitt and officials, naval commissions for Botany Bay, and a writ for a Poole burgess are noted. East India directors plan troop transport ships. Rumor of Ireland intelligence and a Neapolitan birthday duet with a ring gift appear amid Congress delays and diplomacy across Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt-hill
St. James’s
Mr. Pitt
Lord Glenville
Wilyiam Fawcer
Windsor Lodge
Buckingham-house
Kine
Board of Admiralty
Botany Bay
West Rapid
Pitt
Downing-street
Vienna
Ropert Ansue
Constantinople
House of Commons
Poole
Benjamin Lister
Chiltern
East-India House
Wrepnespay
East-India Company
Mavras
Cuina
East Indies
Feudal Weather Cocks and Abbey Disputes Stir Paris Assembly
In the National Assembly the talk of weather cocks privileges for feudal lords provoked laughter as the era’s oddities. A hydraulic machine faced condemnation by the Academy, while M. de Trouville claims the device’s science escapability is beyond academies. A Nassau envoy complains over Wadgalle Abbey fate after nationalization, and Blidestoff sees an insurrection over barrier commissioners, with injuries and near-fatal clashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
National Assembly
Club Des Facobins
Hotel de Ville
Bec
M. de Fronville
Academy of Sciences
Committee of Agriculture
M. de Trouville
Naffau
Blidestoff
Continental Intelligence on Polish troops and European diplomacy
Recruiting expands with unprecedented activity as Polish soldiers who served other powers are eagerly enlisted. Troops train publicly multiple times daily amid fears the Russia Turkey war will persist. The Republic Porte alliance faces fresh obstacles, blamed on Russian influence over Polish nobles. Petersburg’s cabinet uses divide et impera tactics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Turkey
Porte
Europe
Petersburg
Peace talk rises as Ruffians move toward Polish front
Pracusg February 13 reports growing peace talk between Ruffia and the Porte while Ruffians quit the Danube banks and advance toward Kiev near Poland. An Austrian observation army is to be posted on Moravia and Silesia borders. A courier from Constantinople carrying crucial orders heads to Berlin. The Elector of Mainz reportedly leaves the Prussian faction and the Prussian envoy departs without farewell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danube
Kiev
Poland
Moravia
Silesia
Constantinople
Presburg
Sth
Berlin
Mayence
Prufsian
Two Rebecks Arrive After Exchange in Port
Tancrers Fan reports that two Rebecks captured by Spaniards arrived at the port on the 22nd after prisoner exchange. The Portuguese frigate Cefne anchored on the 29th with Chevalier Landrefet, Lisbon ambassador, and a large retinue bearing gifts for the Moorish emperor. The Dutch win trade permission to St. Croix port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cefne
Chevalier Landrefet
Lisbon
Morrocco
St. Croix
Lipeys Question and Wilkes Libel Case Authority
The author notes Mr Fox will submit to Parliament a strong ruling from the Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes No 45 of the North Briton. It asserts personal privilege limits liability for libel, while juries err in libel verdicts and punishments hinge on indicted intent rather than motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lipeys
Fox
Court of Common Pleas
Wilxes
Lord Campen
Wilkes
Law Report: Kenyon Rules on Goods and Infancy
In a London suit, a plaintiff supplied clothing valued at 11 to 14 shillings over seven months to a defendant who claimed infancy. The court ruled the garments were not necessaries, and the verdict went to the defendant as Lord Kenyon lamented youth in middle life. A fuller report promised later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guildhall
London
Kenyon
Lord Kenyon
Fife
Maritime losses and ship damage near English coast
A series of vessel incidents details several ships in trouble or damaged around Dover, Margate, Ostend, Boulogne, and the Lincolnshire coast. Ships named include the Mentor, Johanna Catharina, Concordia, Louisa, Botton Packet, Francois, Lucy, Favourite, Rose, and Margaret, with drownings and groundings reported and several vessels left off or onshore awaiting salvage or cargo delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mentor
Wilcox
London
Africa
Dover
Downs
Johanna Catharina
Falkenburg
Spain
Carthagena
Concordia
Kyrenias
Mediterranean
Margate
Louisa
Armour
Nova Scotia
Ibee
Georgia
Botton
Davis
Boston
Little Isand
Alderney
Francois
Leghorn
Ostend
Lucy
Watson
Hull
Grimsby Road
Tetney Haven
Lincolnshire
Margaret
Turnbull
Leith
Irregularities in Old World Trials and Wesleyan News
A mixed page reports the Irish jury’s harsh damages, sugar trade hopes from Ben a, John Wesley’s death and legacy, Wesley College in South Carolina, convict discipline on Gravesend ships, and a Lord Chief Justice exchange about a defendant. The items blend legal oddities and Methodist history with 18th century commentary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bena
Westey
Christ Church College
Oxford
Lincoln College
Georgia
England
Whitfield
Count Zinzendorff
Hermyth
Germany
Britton
Scotland
Ireland
Mr. Wesley
Coke
America
West India Islands
Wesley College
South Carolina
John Wesley
Gravesend
Esséx
Chelmsford
Fufice Wirtes
Tfe
Bill
Also Mentioned on This Page
House OF Lords
Exeter
Phipps
Evan Law
T. Rices
Titchfield
Bruce
Worcester
G. Berkeley
Lord Belgrave
United States of America
East India
Charles Stewart
Dublin
William Smith
Lriderwater
Airly Castle
Vitan
Naples
Brascal
Rome
Sziftove
Reichenbach
M. de Nferbert
Imail
Cauphin
France
Fhiane
Cawdor
Continental Intelligence
Warsaw
Fed
Pracusg
Tancrers
Fan
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