Quarantine Bill and Slave Trade Debate in Commons
In the House of Commons on Moxvar March 19 the Quarantine Bill passed its third reading. Lord Mayor of London to introduce bills against coal import frauds and faster recovery of Small Debts in London. MPs discuss coffee exports from Jamaica and Great Britain, plus proposed taxes on windows and inhabited houses, with concerns over enforcement and the horse tax.
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House OF ‘Commons
Moxvar
London
Louttons
Bryan Edwards
Jamaica
Wilberforce
Mr. B. Edwards
Great Britain
Pitt
Edwards
Iland
Piz
West Indies
Arrival of Cumberland 74 guns with Ladies of rank
Letters from Portsmouth report the Cumberland 74 guns arrived, with ten Ladies of rank aboard fleeing from Ireland. The Jamaica fleet and Roebuck packet expected. Zephyr from India due. Madras voyage planned. In Parliament Pirn proposed land tax preemption to aid landowners in buying their tax with safeguards for purchasers. Hamburgh protests to Paris over seditious clubs and motives for French expedition debated.
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Portsmouth
Cumberland
Cork
Jamaica
India
Madras
Pirr
Senate of
Hamburgh
Executive Directory
Paris
Carnot
Germany
Buonararre
Italy
England
Ireland
Great Britain
France
Feu de Paume
Louis XVI
Prince of Conve
Brocuio
la Volage
Holderness
General Lenox
Ship News From the Warfront and Port Entries
A long dispatch chronicles British naval activity including the Meacham Scott from Rotterdam to Newry taken into the Dowhs, the Vigilante Hapell captured by a French privateer and sent to Helvoet, and multiple vessel movements. It notes embargoes on privateers, prizes taken by Sir J. B. Warren, arrivals from Gravelines and Nantz, and preparations for a European expedition. Detained ships, ship Nelly sailing London to Lisbon with war stores, and various prize captures are described along with a tragic accident aboard the Belliqueux and a wounded captain Enclano.
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Scott
Rotterdam
Newry
Hapell
Bergen
Helvoet
Jenes
Flushing
New York
Nauru
Hamburgh
Eliza
Portland
Caur
Falmouth
East Indies
Nantz
Brest
Maria Aon Teresa
Bon Foi
Emmanuel
Mandahl
Barcelona
Enclano
Boucher
Bill to repeal tanning law for new elm bark substrate
The debate notes a discovery that elm bark mixed with oak bark yields a better tanning substrate, followed by a patent for the invention. To let tanners use it, parts of a prior law requiring specific tanning ingredients must be repealed, and leave to introduce a repeal bill was granted. Adjourned.
Hanse Town Deputies Seek Neutral Status for Elbe and Weser
The Deputies of the Hanse Towns demand declaration of neutrality for the Elbe and Weser in all future wars of the Empire and that these towns enjoy complete neutrality of commerce.
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Elbe
Weser
Neuteg
Clastes of Venetian Adriatic possessions by French authorities
Corfu reports that the Commissaires du Pouvoir Executif have clasted Venetian Adriatic possessions into three departments. Corfu Ithaca and Zante include Paxo Antipaxo Bucintro Parga Cephalonia Santa Maura Privera Venizza Calamo Strofadio Cerigo and Cerigotto on the mainland and islets.
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Corfu
Adriatic
Commissaires du Pouvoir -Executif
Ithaca
Zanté
Paxo
Antipaxo
Bucintro
Parga
Cephalonia
Santa Maura
Privera
Venizza
Calamo
Strofadio
Cerigo
Cerigotto
Naval commands and peerage death noted in London
Captains Mutock Wa Birenay Boze and Craven Bourpon receive new commands aboard ships including the Aindolan Heée Hyena Wafenaar and Alemaar, while Friday afternoon Lord Carrworps died at his Grosvenor Square home after a short tenure as a Peer since 1796.
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Mutock
Aindolan
Wa. Birenay
Heée
Boze
Craven
George Bourpon
Grosvenor Square
Lord Carrworps
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Parleanentiat Intelligence
Matthew Shire Ridley
Baronet
M. W. Ridley
Pit
Tanners Bark
D. Ryder
Prince William of Gloucester
Canterbury
Duke of Portland
H. L. Howart
A. M
Earl of
Buck
Guamshire
Chipping Warden
Northamptonshire
H. C. Hopart
Bere Ferrars
Devonshire
T. Browne
Christ ‘College, Cambridge
Brook-street
Holborn
Gray’s-Inn-lane
Duke of
Duke of Roxpuren
Chelsea
Covent Garden
Rutlandshire
Merry
Miss Brunton
America
Poors
Tottenham Court-Road
Éfasseur
Joseph Wheeler
Lymington
Winchester
Wheeler
Salisbury
Southampton
Sarum
West Quay
Liverpool
Abigail
Exeter
Colnbrook
Bristol
Coorer
Artillery
Colchester Barracks
East Essex
Harwich
Languard-fort
Ship News
Dover
Gravelines
Plymouth
Concordia
Altona
É&C
Leghorn
Penelope
Longfound
Teneriffe
Poole
Newfoundland
Yarmouth
Elfineur
Ceres
Charlotte
S. W
Reputé
Aus
Nore
N. E
Expres
Duke of York
Cuxhaven
Dortrecht
Chatham
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