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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 12, 1798
Page
4
Debate on accounts and production of further papers continues in the House. Mr Hobhouse and Mr Pitt express curiosity and consent to view additional made up accounts. A separate motion by Mr Pitre to instruct the Committee on Petitions from clock and watch makers to consider duties on inhabited houses window lights horses used in husbandry and on dogs is ordered, then adjournment.
The Evening Mail notes arrivals and dispatches from Hamburg and Copenhagen. Dutch resistance to French requisitions, Burgoyne Bonham Evans Despard cases, and reports of Neapolitan and Papal movements surface. German, Danish, and Spanish fleet activity, Prussia and Austria strategic plans, and a Cork murder attempt are outlined along with East India dispatches and prison/justice updates.
Government issues Exchequer Bills with wording differing from Parliament authority causing confusion and prompting a letter to Mr Rose for explanation. Rose confirms a loan planned with second and third payments around May and late June, sending stocks down then partial recovery as markets react to fiscal plans and Pitt's proposed lawn tax sinking fund.
The document lists varied wartime subscriptions from Dublin and multiple English cities including Bristol Manchester Bath York Leicester Cambridge and Wolverhampton. It notes officers seamen and Marines of HMS Cameleon pledging 14 days pay into the Admiralty and reports rapid local fund boosts from Inverness Freeholders and Fulham Academy youth, with totals reaching thousands of pounds and guineas.
Maritime news reports several ships captured or diverted by privateers including The Joseph and Francis seized and sent to Guernsey, The Conway Privateer aiding Jersey, and The Count Bernstoff taken to Algeziras. Portsmouth and Plymouth notices note convoys and arrivals amid war risks. a large new vessel launches at Sunderland amid public interest. An American vessel sighting near Shetland hints at further privateering activity.
Yesterday John Peach, hackney coachman, after re examination, committed for trial for stealing the body of a Mr Mc Dowal's child found in his coach. The Tottenham Court Road Chapel burying ground was the scene as crowds of mourners, many distraught, learned graves had been opened and bodies stolen.
On Thursday last the seamen aboard Mars presented their first lieutenant Mr Wa Butterrizzo with a valuable sword to honor his care for the sick and wounded. Yesterday a desperate battle occurred in Stepney Fields between W Turner a baker of Mile End Green Stepney and a publican of Mile End Row. Turner was killed on the spot and the publican lies dangerously ill at his home.
Unclear fragment lists several lottery numbers and dates. Mentions include series 35,298 35,281 wool. 46,721 22,712 gold. 45,646 70,000. 40,168 23,697 sol. Entries appear as cataloged draw identifiers without clear context or outcomes. The readable text is fragmented and not sufficient to identify a narrative event or prize results.
Notices announce the marriage of Henry Revel Reynolds to Ann Mitford at St. Andrew's Holborn. Also reported are obituaries for Sir William Molesworth Bart and references to a Rev. Reynolds and Henry Taylor Esq. with brief notices of their deaths or positions. The page includes stock price figures and financial data in a compact classified style.
In Blackfriarg, Patnrepsy J Walter and J Walter Jun join as partners in the PRINTING-HOUSE-SQUARE firm, signaling a renewed local business alignment. The move positions the duo to drive operations and expand services at the historic site.
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