Royal Drawing Room Notes and House of Lords Sparks
A London scene recalls a Friday drawing room at St James's with the Queen and King receiving guests, plus aristocrats attending for the season. Lords business touches Crim. Con. worries, bank clerk salaries rise, and shipping disputes loom as society columns ponder marriages, reform, and police office updates.
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St. James’s
Pitt
Dunpas
Buckingham House
Duchess of Hamilton
Countess of Dartmouth
Viscount Barnarod
Lewisham, Dacre
F. Ratceirre
Jane Hor Lipay
Countess of Bute
M. and
C. Stuart
Cuartotte Lecce
Earl of Dartt MourTu
Marchioness of
Bath
C. Wat-Degrave
Mevutsu
Anspaca
Alwys
House of Commions
Burtoy
Covent Garden
Somerset House
Westminster
Temple Bar
London
Middlesex
Daily Advertiser
Robins
Garraway
Lyons
France
Thensa
Lord Hoop
Frost
Letter from a Dragoon Describing Transatlantic Voyage Calamities
An officer of the 12th Regiment of Dragoons writes of a West Indies embarkation aboard the Carolina Yarmouth bound to Cork to draft high light dragoons. The skip suffered storms off Margate Sheerness and the Downs, the ship wrecked on Maer Point Cornwall, and crew mutinies followed as they defended provisions while natives looted. He discusses exchange rates Paris, naval mishap, and distant political economy notes. The 12th Dragoon regiment, under Sir George Howard, moved to Reading for quartering prior to review by the king.
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West Indies
Cork
High Light Dragoons
Margate
Sheerness
Thenth
Downs
Channel
Maer Point
Cornwall
Keej
Paris
St. Domingo
France
Austria
Prussia
Wendover
Thomson
House of Commons
Rose
Dragoons
Georde Howard
Reading
Court considers Finsbury S Square ruin inquest findings
At a Court of Common Council the ruinous condition of Finsbury S Square houses was discussed, the District Surveyor blamed for neglect, and parties ordered to lay details before Middlesex Magistrates. Dance and Peacock to attend next Court amid concerns over improper construction and supervision. A city jobs critique follows with fear of cafe-related corruption. A maniac assaulted Hon Mrs Hosart in St James's Square, robbing three guineas before Dichels of Gorpon servants intervened.
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Court of Common Council
Guildhall
Finsbury S Square
Middlesex
Dance
Peacock
Election Committees Report On March 17 At Newcastle
A historic committee session notes the Attorney General and Lord Gower elected amid a challenged petition. At Elrenster, Belgrave fell ill, adjournment followed. Steyning saw Mr. Brown testify on borough voting rights tied to houses, with 1724 polls and a contested handwritten paper ruled inadmissible.
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Newcastle
Lord Gower
Elrencester
Lord Belgrave
Resolved that Mr Templar was duly elected in Honiton
Thursday March 18 the committee investigated Mr Frazer and Mr Templar with only four votes in favor for Templar among four hundred voters. Witnesses died removing proof for Frazer's petition. Counsel advised the petitioner to abandon. Escott testified Frazer acted honorably exculpating him. The panel declared Frazer's petition not frivolous or vexatious.
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Honiton
Frazer
Templar
John SincLair
Douglas
Hand of God
Escott
Fraser
Contested Borough Sees Shifting Portreeve and Tenants
The Borough of Fowe review contrasts the March 1791 and 1792 committee resolutions. It notes Thomas Mery was declared Portreeve by the 1791 committee, later reversed for Thomas Mein by the Court of King's Bench. It also cites changes on homage presentment for Prince's Tenants and confirms Lord Wat- Leetort and Philip Raswh Letcu as MPs, with Rathleigh influence rising.
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Thomas Mery
Court of King’s Bench
Thomas Mein
Lord Wat- Leetcort
Phinip Raswh Letcu
Noted Jig Pettit Arrested for Smuggling Crimes
Lewes reports Pettit alias the Jig, once a Revenue guardian, seized after information from Thomas Levat. He faces examination for August 1789 entry with West into C Mortimer’s Eastbourne customs stable, seizing two horses from his men amid illegal imports. A traveling woman near Boreham windmill died after being struck by swifts.
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Henry Shelley
House of Correction
Boreham
Liverpool
Grimshaw and Sons
Deansgate
Royal Regiment of Dragoon Guards
Earl of Pennstoke
Manchester
Scots Greys
Ireland Resolutions on Spirituous Liquors and Beer
A digest of Irish Parliament resolutions for the years around 1790 1791 detailing beer and ale production imports and domestic distillation figures in nine month periods and noting changes versus prior years and the impact of licensing acts. It records volumes in barrels and gallons for beer ale and spirits and remarks on increased or decreased use and compliance with prior liquor-control measures.
Dream of Violets Soap Promotion Contested by Patentee
The Widner Soap patentee warns the public that Windsor Soap imitates the patent Violet Soap and will limit sales to the Patent Violet Soap office in London Hart and Co No 102 Bank Buildings Corn Hill. He withdraws agents Dyde Bailey and Mrs Dice and urges vigilance against imitations. The advertisement extols Violet Soap’s skin benefits and notes a fourteen year patent grant and pricing of sixpence sixpence per square with a three month usage claim.
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Windsor
London
Hart and Co
Cornhill
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Leicestershire
Melton Mowbray
Dalby Wood
Hardy
Loraine
Ranning
Bow-street
Westminster Police
Falmouth
Steyning
Brown
John Honeywood
Partridge
An How
Fowe
Country News
Ireland
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