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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 11, 1796
Page
2
Parliamentarians discussed enabling Lord Temple and Lady Brydges to retire with consent from Sir Francis Buller despite age, with writing affidavits. Marquis Buckingh am sought to dispense with the 4th standing order, Lord Thurlow objected, and the matter was adjourned.
The Earl of Lauderdale led a rider proposing a provision for the Lady, restricted to moral conduct guidelines, while Lords Hardwicke Mulgrave and Darnley opposed. Bishops and peers argued provision would imply rewards for misconduct. the house rejected the clause by a 21 to 12 vote, then adjourned.
The House debated a bill to anatomize bodies of felons executed for burglary and highway robbery, opposed as unjust to the poor and unnecessary. It also considered Game Laws reforms and then moved toward the slave trade report with possible delays due to Dundas's illness, adjourned until Monday.
London reports detail a royal Levee at St James's Palace with a private audience for Lord Grenville and a later Council in the King's Closet. It covers the Austrian army command change, Spanish ministerial moves, arrears in pay, Game Laws penalties, theater gossip, and notes on weather and forthcoming executions at Newgate.
The Brothers Owen en route from Ipswich to Liverpool put into Ramsgate nearly waterlogged after stranding on the Goodwin Sands. The Providence Lys from London to Jersey struck a rock bound for Jersey and sank. crew saved. Phe Regulator Mason from Barbados to London put into Lisbon damaged and drifted from anchors. Truro Mackie London to Leith and Gibraltar Hull to Greenland were captured by a French privateer near Plymouth. Gibraltar burnt. Thomas and Sally Wiles Ipswich to Liverpool and Thomas and Susan Gearmes Ramsgate to Portsmouth were seized and sent to Havre de Grace. Good Intent Clark Lisbon to London ran foul and put into Castletown with damage.
This afternoon Sir Epiwarp Petrew's squadron sailed for the Coast of France with Indefatigable Argoom Air Captain Burcess Revolutioninatre 38 GoLe Amazon 4 36 Reynolds Concorde 36 Hunt Cutter Lugger and four Chaite Marées. Each frigate carries flats, horses, boats, and a number of distinguished French officers aboard. The wind is northeast and they should reach their station in about three days.
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