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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 12, 1798
Page
2
The Lords heard counsel in the Monroe cafe case with Appellant Monroe and Respondents Campbell and others. they affirmed the decree of the Scotch Courts. Bills on the table were read in their respective stages. adjourned.
In the House of Commons on Monday May 12 a Tax Office report covered clock and watch employments for a quarter year. Mr Pitt signaled plans to repeal the tax and propose a replacement on Wednesday. Debate noted delays harming trades, with other members urging quicker action and signaling future motions on emigrants and military subsistence. The Public Offices Holiday Bill and various committee schedules were set or postponed.
A London report covers social gatherings at Mr Dunpas’s Somerset Place with titled guests including the Duke of York and others. It notes political debates on prisoner exchanges, naval expedition additions for Nelson, and remarks on French and Spanish actions, plus a Norfolk village street fight ending in Bishop’s win and Bets stakes.
Ship news from Yarmouth reports the Porcupine frigate under Capt. James Wat Lis sailing with six Davis Strait men to Shetland, arrivals of Echo and Pylades sloops, Fox Narcissus King George Rose and Speculator from their posts, and Sunday sailings of the General Elliot Indiaman with convoy and the Prince of Grange packet carrying mails and passengers.
The Anna Frederica from Villa Nova with wine and brandy and the Johanna Beathy from Malaga with brandy are detained at Plymouth by Channel cruisers and sent in for examination.
PORTSMOUTH MARCH 10 This morning a fine NE breeze pushed outward bound West India traders and transports from Cowes Road under convoy of the Sea Horse and Syren frigates. Two or three transports are said to be left behind as Lisbon and Gibraltar ships ride with their convoy at St Helen's awaiting fleet sighting. The Fairy sloop of war arrived from the Downs and detained a rich neutral ship from Smyrna, sending her to Dover for further use after discovering communication with her.
In Dublin, authorities plan Barbacan gates near the Castle to contain soldiers who nightly roam the streets. A judge awarded 300 pounds to Daly against Astley for a performance at the Amphitheatre. The Attorney General proposes a bill to shorten the time to summon Parliament and to arrange for its fitting after a Crown demise. A Waterford Chronicle report about Montgomery, Cork magistrate, and his house burning is challenged as possibly inaccurate.
In Weenspan Marcus the Irish House of Commons passed the Insurrection Bill and the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill. The Attorney General asked leave to introduce a Bill to shorten law notice for Royal summons of Parliament and to provide for Parliament sitting after a Crown demise, ensuring the last elected MPs meet if dissolution occurs. Leave granted. The Bill read first time.
Yesterday a woman appeared before the sitting Magistrate charged on oath with attempting to defraud the Society for the Relief of Widows and Children of Soldiers. She pretended to be the wife of Fames Goodwilly, a private in the 3d Regiment of Foot, and produced a forged marriage certificate alleged from Sleaford Lincolnshire. She was committed for trial.
Colonel Desparn, former Bahama Islands governor, faces arrest. Duke of Bentorp’s political rifts trigger vascular inflammation as he recovers. Lady Jersey promotes Spilldakins to high society, spending guineas rapidly. Rumor claims three French frigates fired near Hastings, causing panic. A nursemaid overlaid a heir to a large estate in Essex. coroner records accidental death. Bartlett the Dorchester baker dies after weeks of heavy drinking. Northampton assizes hear Christopher Chesterton for murder of a man named Burbridge, body dumped in a river. On Elmsted road, Mr Lake and son robbed by two footpads. later butcher Edwards of Bromley falls prey to the same band.
The Constituent Assembly at The Hague outlines a new Batavian Republic government: abolition of provincial division and Feudal system, church state separation, universal suffrage limits for Orange adherents, a two‑council legislature with a five‑member executive, annual budget reporting, independent treasury and accounts, territorial division into departments, a national court for officials, justices of the peace for pretrial reconciliation, popular constitutional circles, periodic constitutional revision, a national guard, oaths against monarchy aristocracy and anarchy, and no interference with currency banks. It calls for tighter relations with France while shunning enemies of France.
An excerpt from a Sierra Leone letter describes a two hour forty nine minute bombardment of Goree by a British squadron led by Lt. Ann and Ellis aboard the Hornet. The Dada lus suffered two dead and fifteen wounded, while the Bell was sunk. The piece notes Sierra Leone as a rare free settlement amid the slave trade and details a perilous ship loss and salvage.
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