Motion for Production of Public Accounts Papers Proposed
The Masquis of Lansdowne intended to move on the internal finances and public accounts. He would not press a motion in ministerial absence and aimed to produce papers on barracks, navy debt, ordnance, taxes, and the consolidated fund by early April. The Lord Chancellor promised to bring the motions to the House next day. Lord Meirs produced a bill extending the 1794 Insolvent Debtors Act for detained debtors. The bill was read a first time and adjourned.
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Lansdowne
Nove
Bank of England
House of Commons Read Third Time and Adjourn
The Button-makers Bill Westminster Coal Storage Bill and the O dalton Inclosure Bill were read at third time and apportioned. Committees Ways and Means and Supply sit April 4. Several inclosure and drainage bills reported and ordered to be engrafted.
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Westminster Coal
Calden
Marston Moor
Barrington
West Ella
Everton
John Sinclair
Royal Court Levee and Council Proceedings At Whitehall
London dispatch describes a morning Levee at St James's Palace with the Duke of York and King George, audiences for Sir William Watson and Lord Hawnesbury, appointments for Greenwich Hospital, and a late cabinet discussion on corn trade. Includes references to ministers dining at Downing Street and the Lent Sermon at the Chapel Royal.
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Erincesses
Windsor
Queen’s House
Duke of York
Camie
St. James’s Palace
Hoop
Whandon
Greenwich Hospital
Huop Pacussen
Mr. Watson
Joseph” Baw KS
K.B
Ahim
William Watson
Knt
Duke of
Pitt
Downing-street
Ruels
Chapel Royal
Fontaine
Wortester
Lieutenant Colonel O'Reelly Sentenced For Coal Misuse
The court martial found Lieutenant Colonel O'Reelly guilty on one charge for misusing coal allowances at Winchelsea between December 1794 and May 1795. He was sentenced to forfeit £100 and to be distitted from his Majesty's service.
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Winchelsea
Royal Navy and French War News Chronicle Fragment
Rear-Admiral Curisman travels with West India fleet as debates alter company bye laws. Reports of Royalist arms landing in Brittany and Normandy, terror in France, and shipping movements near Roche, Calais, Dover. Wheat prices fall. libel case against Reeves. notable financiers named. Plymouth and Portsmouth dispatches note ships, convoys, and arrivals including the West India Fleet and Caroline.
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Curisman
Iwpra
Prrr
House of Commons
Britanny
Normandy
France
Romespierre
Calais
Dover
Paris
Havre de-Grace
M. Pe F
Mayenne
Algiers
Cdrsica
Corsica
London
Isle of Cops
Reeves
Jexnines
Suffolk
England
Bath
EarthLex
Belvidere
Suckipan
Nova Scotia
Letitia Piper
Lewes
Sussex
Cuckfield Market
John Fellows
Northall
Sand-street
Nicholas Bonn
Oflice
Bow-street
Earthquakes Alarm Lisbon in 1755 Shadow
Descriptions from Lisbon report shocks on the 17th and 23rd morning long after five, causing panic, bells to ring, and residents fleeing to squares. Nobility with country estates fled town, fearing a recurrence of the great quake. Meanwhile a French squadron of seven ships and three frigates still rests at Cadiz with their prizes.
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Spsin
Quares
St Il
Cadiz
Mutiny Among Native Troops Near Barrackpore
An 1800s dispatch reports a serious mutiny by a battalion of native troops at Barrackpore on the 15th. After refusals to go to Malacca, disobedience grew as sepoys seized a guard, refused arms, and returned fire with field artillery before dispersing after grape shot. Discontent spreads over commander pay.
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Lovevec Grant
Malacca
Andy
Letter from Vienna on Lombardy taxes and military justice
A Morning Post letter quotes a Vienna source alleging that Lombardy monks and nuns face a May deadline to pay one million fifty thousand coins or have their property seized. The essay compares this to French church robberies, arguing taxation for the state is criminal if it harms individuals. It defends Colonel Thorne’s sentence, condemns attempts to defraud soldiers of pay, and protests public injustice toward the disgraced.
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Vienna
Prinof
Lombardy
Cawthorne
Cawworse
Royalist naval actions and Chouan warnings at Granville
Letters dated March 16 describe Sir Sydney Smith offshore actions at Granville and Cherbourg with boats and cannon, the Royalists reporting heavy cannonade, French émigrés moving by water due to Chouan numbers, and French fears of attack. Dispatch notes a British frigate near Boyly Bay and a prize taken from a lugger.
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Sydney Susru
Prénetz
Granville
St. Milo
Sydnéy
Fini
Sydney Smith
Cherbourg
Sr RacHary Sa Rachan
Boyly Bay- Jatt
Sypney Surry
Brest
Prince de Bouillon
Gormon
Naval forces clash as Toulon fleet goes to sea
The British squadron of ten ships of the line, including five three-deckers, will join Admiral Wappinger’s four line ships, one of which is a three decker, in a certain latitude. Reports say the Toulon Fleet of 16 ships has departed, with the English and French forces nearly equal in numbers and firepower.
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Portsmouth
Sir George Homeé
Prince George
Caroline
North Sea
Admiral Cuatstian
Alcmene
Brown
Childers
Guernsey
Downs
Eliza
Wappencaave
Toulon
Tris on the handsome widow Lady Jane Flan
The piece references heirs and titles including Captain Ww. Hattipay of the Navy, the Wilbratam entailments, and the Tollemache lineage as it relates to the Earldom of Dyfart. It also notes Bishop of Rocursize and a Mrs SHADWELL, with satirical digressions on age and female affairs amid legal and medical commentary.
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Tris
Jane Flan
Lidays
Ww. Hattipay
Navy
Wilbratam Witaies
Chedhire
Áeol
Witeaadam
Luem Macne
Wilbranam
Tollemache
Earl of
Dyfart
Louisa’ Manners
Covent
Rocwes
Shadwell
Banochy
Oliver
York
Lucy
Tayi
Starxnore
Peter Garreson
Stafford
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James
Bristol
Belfas
Belfast
Plymouth
Liberty
Mackiney
Jersey
Sir Sydney Surrn
Diamond
Horace Pink
Express
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Adventure
Henry Pyle
Riga
Isle
Wight
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Lynn
Thistle
Harpy
Halifax
Spithead
Carnatic
Jenkins
Leander
Rencarno
Hamoaze
Sound
Chapman
Cumpertano
Stonehouse Pool
St. Albans
Admairal Vanpepur
LecuMere
West India
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Falmouth
Scilly
Convey
Westmoreland Packet
Jamaica
New York
Duchess of York
Corurn
Lisbon
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Calcutta
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