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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 23, 1796
Page
1
Michael Sidebottom and two women faced trial before Mr Serjeant Clayton for the August Castleford riot when a mob seized a vessel loaded with corn bound for Wakefield. All pleaded guilty and were sentenced to one month in York Castle with two sureties each for peace for one year.
Sale of a long established Mercantile Town newspapers stock and stationery shop in London. Advertisements run weekly about 109 issues. Stock to be valued fairly. Enquiries to R. S. care Mr. W. Taylor Warwick Court Newgate Street London by post.
A writer from May Evening Ser proposes limiting grants of waste land to the poor. The plan would require five years of occupancy with no sale, allowing inheritance or sale only for the benefit of the surviving family, to prevent landlords from exploiting grant recipients.
The article argues that price claims about war raising costs are inconsistent and uses Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to show that wheat prices tend to rise after wars. It cites 88 years of data where peace periods average 13d per comb dearer than the previous war, suggesting war reduces wheat prices in practice.
The report to the House of Commons details the Sele Committee’s resolutions on corn price relief. It favors weighing by weight over measure, endorses the avoirdupois pound as standard, and defines fixed weights for grain to ensure fair transactions. It mandates standard market weights, penalties for adulteration, and illuminated market-beam installations in towns with costs borne by county rates.
Corn prices fell last week with wheat down 2s a sack at Warminster Market where half the offerings remained unsold. Leicester set a weekly shilling loaf limit of 3lbs gros. Derby issued a wheaten loaf of 3lbs 19oz with weekly afsize. A Newport farmer Weeks rethreshed unsold straw, yielding two bushels of clean wheat from 42 dozen.More details describe inefficiencies in threshing and market weight adjustments.
The charge before the Hertford Grand Jury, by Sir Nash Grose, condemns rioting to seize provisions, explains it endangers property and public peace, notes high prices and scarcity, and urges enforcement of law through courts rather than force. It cites the duty of the rich to relieve the poor and references charitable acts and legislative efforts.
At East Grinstead offices a short Lewes assizes session yielded two capital convictions Francis Stage alias Absolom for burglary at Leominster, and Thomas Johnston aged 16 for burglary at Halitham. Other verdicts included John Clapton guilty of stealing oats and sentenced to seven years transportation, Richard Ruffill released for age, plus multiple acquittals and a few lesser notes. The two felons were reprieved before the judge departed. the assizes were described as very short with little to record beyond these actions.
On Tuesday fat respites till further orders were received at our gaol for Michael Murray and William Friday signed by Mr Baron Thompson and Mr Justice Lawrence at Shrewsbury. A general respite was received yesterday by post for Robert Cooper from the Duke of Portland's Office and this morning a seven day respite was sent for William Morgan from the same Office. All were left for execution at the late offices for this county.
At about two o clock on a Wednesday morning a fire swept the home of Mr Hill an umbrella maker in St James Church yard Bristol. The house was burnt down the family barely escaped with their lives Mrs Hill who had just regained strength fled from bed to a neighbors house with seven children rescued through lodging room windows. Through commendable effort and vigilant military help most furniture and stock in trade were saved though principal items of wearing apparel and tools were destroyed.
Salisbury reports good wheat conditions on the ground with deep roots ensured by wet winter and dry autumn. harrowing now lightens land, prevents weed growth, and promotes even branching. Also covers fox hunting at Hythe, court action for crim con in Leicester, luminous nocturnal phenomenon in Sussex, and highway robbery on Edgware Road.
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