Parliamentary Intelligence House of Lords Adjourns Till Monday
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Exchequer Loan Bill Earl St Vincent and Lord Duncan's Annuity Bills and other public and private measures. Commissioners included the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Chancellor and Karl Spencer. Bills read through their stages and a Mercers' Company representative presented accounts. Adjourned till Monday.
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House OF Lords
Manch
Exchequer
Earl St.Vincent
Lord Duncan
Archbishop of Canterbury
Lorn Cane Cellor
Karl Spencer
Mercers’ Company
House of Commons Discusses Bills and Exchequer Totals
Lords indicate agreement to multiple bills including Tax Commissioners Name Bill Exchequer Bill Portugal Salt Importation Bill and Watch Case Bill. Royal Assent by Commission to public and private bills noted. Militia Pay and Cloathing Bill second reading. Scotch Distillery Bill passed. Committee on bounty on Irish Linen set for next week. Adjourned.
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House OF Commons
Farpay
Marco
Lords
Tax Commissioners
Portugal
House of Peers
Rey
Great Britain
East Indies
Committee of Ways and Means
London News Roundup and Political Quarrels
A London dispatch reports on the Duke of York dining with Mr Dunoas and the Princess of Wales leaving for Charlton. Debates over Lord St Vincent’s fleet claims and exchanges with France are debated, with contradicting advices from Cadiz and Paris. Notices discuss Parliament, Habeas Corpus, and Buonaparte strategies amid a restless political climate.
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Duke of York
Dunoas
Somerset Place
Princess of Wales
Charlton
Lord St. Vincent
Cadiz
Parker
M. Gattois
France
Lord Grenville
M. Swinsuone
Paris
M. Gaxtors
England
Gatters
Directory
M. Gators
London
Chevalier d’Aranjo
Portugal
Chevalier o’Axango
Zempe
Walier
Westminster
Old England
Voluntary Contributions to Stamp Office in Dublin
The Servants of the Earl of Stamrorp and War- Rincton paid into the Bank 75 8s. The Commissioners and other Officers of the Stamp Office yesterday contributed into the bank. Contributions in Dublin since commencement amount to upwards of 77,0001. Most of the sum annual.
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Earl of Stamrorp
War- Rincton
Stamp-Office
Bank
G75
Dublin
Privy Council Deliberations and Public Affairs Stir London
The Privy Council met at the Duke of Portuoawn's office to hear Claris and Hétie from Canterbury. Waite discharged while Claris remanded to messengers. Evans and Bournham reexamined and remanded. O'Conor and others in Tower with venue undecided, Maidstone a possiblity. The piece defends Lord Fitzwilliam's West Riding appointment and contrasts French and British voluntary contributions amid wartime strain, warning of revolutionary aims in France and praising English civic spirit. It notes Mentz denomination and a London publicans’ luck with a 10,000l ticket, plus a suspected late robbery of Lord Macartney's house.
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Privy Council
Duke of Portuawn
Claris
Hétie
Canterbury
Mason
Scott
Waite
Evans
Bournham
O’connor
Maidstone
Kent
Bizus
Lord Firgwittram
West-Riding
York
Lord Fitzwilliam
France
Great Britain
Europe
Mentz
Directory
Council of Five Hundred
Downing-street
Westminster
Lord Macartney
Curzon Street
Ireland
The Runaway Fox in Parliament Storm
A mock debate pits Fox against Pitt over war and peace. Fox laments dearness of bread and calls for reform, while Pitt argues the need for stability and economy. Fox storms out of St Stephen's House, and the poem praises those who steer the ship through the storm.
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Fox
Hexse
Retaken ships and slave voyage losses on Africa coast
Ship news reports the Quaker of Liverpool with 360 slaves and the African Queen of Bristol retaken on Africa coast. The Neptunus from Padstow to Napt is taken to Algeziras, the Polly from London to Antigua to Cayenne, the Hope from Plymouth to Oporto to France, and the George from Gibraltar to London seized by a Spanish privateer and carried to Villa Nova.
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Liverpool
Buckle
Bristol
Africa
Singdahlem
Padstow
Napt
Algeziras
Polly
Linklater
London
Antigua
Cayenne
Hope
Richardson
Plymouth
Oporto
France
George
Nixon
Gibraltar
Villa Nova
Porcupine Frigates Arrive With Davis's Straits Men
Yarmouth on March 3 reports the Porcupine frigates of 28 guns under Captain James Watuis from the Nore arrived to convey Davis's Straits men to Shetland. The King George packet under Captain Dean carried mails and passengers including Mr Victers who was ordered out of the kingdom.
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Yarmouth
Porcupine
James Watuis
Nore
Davis’s Straits
Shetland
King George Packet
Dean
Mr. Victers
Kingdom
Grave Robbing Near Tottenham Court Road Exposed
Morning patrol halted three men from a hackney coach near the Tabernacle. A baby’s body was found in the coach and eight others in a ditch beside a chapel burying ground. Coachman John Peak alias Loury Jack was jailed for further examination after suspicions linked him to Hampstead churchyard thefts and Resurrection-men activity. Relatives claimed most bodies were interred the night before.
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Tabernacle
Tottenham-court Road
Chapel Burying Ground
John Peak
Loury Jack
Hatton-Garden
Pittstreet
Tottenham Court-Road
Hampstead Church-Yard
Law Report on Sinclair V Sinclair Divorce Case
In the Confortary Court before Sir William Scott Lucy Ann Sinclair sues Colonel John Gordon Sinclair for separation and reparation after alleged adultery. The case hinges on a Brussels divorce or nullity sentence and if it precludes English action for cruelty. The judge finds the protest insufficient and grants the divorce muffet thro as prayed.
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William Scott
Lucy Ann Sinclair
John Gordon Sinclair
Scotland
Brussels
Bruit
France
Bruffels
Colonel Sinclair
England
William
Bruffe’s
Death Found Hidden in Box in Snow's-fields Narrative
William Gray was stopped in King street Snow's-fields by William Cooper with a box. The box contained the dead body of a young woman tied at the neck and limbs. Gray was examined and committed for further examination, with expected identifications next Monday.
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William Gray
King-street
Snow's-fields
William Cooper
Affizes to Open in Cork on 28th for Earl of Kincston Case
The Cork Affizes begin on the 28th. A bill will be preferred against the Earl of Kincston for the killing of Colonel Fitzcerarp. Colonel Robert Craururp arrives in Dublin as Deputy Quartermaster General. M Crery, Louis XVI’s valet de chambre, reaches London from Vienna via Hamburg. He served the king through trials and imprisonment until Robespierre’s fall. Yesterday, Abraham Myers, Levi Benjamin, Lew Lyon, and Jacob Marks faced Marlborough Street magistrates on accusations of armed robbery near Charlotte Chapel. Blanchard stated they seized money and he was forced to surrender funds. Edward Reynolds, linked to Edex and Middlesex cow-stealing gangs, was convicted at the Aylesbury Affizes.
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Cork
Earl of Kincston
Fitzcerarp
Ropert Craururp
Dublin
Ireland
M. Crery
Louis XVI
London
Vienna
England
Temple
Clery
Prison
de la Force
Robespierre
Abraham Myers
Levi Benjamin
Lew: Lyon
Marlborough Street
John Blanchard
Charlotte Chapel
Portland Place
Blanchard
Edward Reynolds
Edex
Middlesex
Aylesbury
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