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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 29, 1799
Page
3
The Jamaica House of Assembly debated measures to curb French people and their slaves from St Domingo. Resolutions urged immediate action to prevent importation of free blacks and slaves, with alarm at plans to settle them in a West Indies island and no guaranteed destination.
The Wheat markets rise amid lower stock and uncertain foreign supply. Winter weather harms Oats and fallowed lands, while Barley and Beans suffer in early stages. Clover thrives, Winter Tares damaged on wet soils, and Rape seed improves as barley price rises for fodder. Hops prices climb. Flock-Masters report poor lambing in Norfolk Wiltshire and Downlands. Beef, Mutton, Lamb plentiful at Smithfield but wasteful feed concerns persist. Turnips and spring feed are scarce. Zeean Street prices steady. Hogs and Store Pigs dearer. draught horses harder to sell.
The Essex Militia arrives at Chelmsford from Maiden with most volunteers bound for Ireland. The gth Iiith Dragoons move to Canterbury and Chatham. The American Papers justify Commodore Truxton by recounting French provocations. Insurgent frigates and the Retaliation are cited in a broader anti-American plot. Anonymous letters threaten Cumberland figures demanding gold, with a Carlisle jailward suspect.
An Admiralty dispatch reports His Majesty's ship under Captaincy captured the French privateer from Nantes armed with 18 guns after a 10 hour chase. Additional letters from Jamaica and the Mediterranean note further captures of privateers, armed vessels, and several merchant ships. Sundry actions describe prize takings by Argo, Leviathan, and other ships, with casualties listed and crews commended.
The session discusses the Window Tax Bill amid dull debate as vast powder landed from England. Martial law spreads from Cork to Belfast with many whipped for nightly rule violations. Militia and Yeomanry mobilize. the Rebellion Bill gains Royal Assent and warrants surge to authorities for swift actions. Arms and ammunition move to Waterford and Limerick as Dundalk reports over twenty capital convictions for robbery and murder.
From Limerick report insurgents in Clare Mayo and Galway now strike pastures at night using pikes or guns. They flood meadow surfaces, submerging fields to render them unfit for use for years. Tomorrow state prisoners in various gaols are to be shipped to Scotland. A government printing reports is released. A bill seeks to bar any man who swore the United men's oath from the franchise even if pardoned.
The House ordered both bills to be engraven as the Chancellor of the Exchequer signalled bringing forward resolutions to provide for Loyalist allowances and militia pay. Colonel Beresford secured leave to draft a disqualification bill for late rebels from Parliament and corporate offices. The Commons agreed to treat wholesale wine and spirit licences like retail licences to curb fraud, then adjourned.
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