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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 03, 1793
Page
1
April 29 1793 directions issued for paying off Exchequer Bills including principal and interest. names and residences to be listed. interested holders to deliver bills by May 16 1793 fornew bills bearing three pence per day interest. payments and deadlines detailed for May 1793.
An 18th century notice outlines the Crown and Anchor society and a committee update on subscriptions. It includes anecdotes about Prince of Orange and Duke of York, along with naval events. The text also surveys tropical flora from Otaheite Timor St Helena and details Malvern Wells as a refined health resort near Worcester, with season from May to year end and favorable air for consumptive patients.
Royal proclamation reestablishes ancient magistracy in Liege, denounces revolution supporters, orders public calm and heavy fines totaling 600000 florins, to fund troops and indemnify officers, with severe penalties for suspected revolutionaries and ringleaders. Signed by Colonel 3 Searon Mack.
A garbled OCR snippet shows political satire and notices from a historic paper. It mentions France, opposition, Equality, hangings, constitutional societies, a Lady, a sermon for Overseers and Churchwardens, and various mixed phrases about contracts, hats, and a trial. The readable items are disjointed and non-specific, with no single coherent event.
Unclear fragment notes a disturbance at a police office and Union Hall involving individuals named Ralph Day and John Clark. Details are garbled but suggest a confrontation or inquiry related to local authorities. Further readable text needed for precise summary.
The Middlesex Grand Jury were sworn in before Mr. Justice Ashurst who stated they knew their duty and would perform it creditably for the country. Lord Kenyon announced Hastings's Trial would proceed in Westminster Hall on Monday, with Guildhall sitting on Monday morning instead of Tuesday.
Court hearing new trials from Lord Kenyon era. Gallini and Labore faced suit for not performing as first Dancer at the Opera House. Jury awarded nominal damages but later omens on whether a licence was needed for dancing and music by Vestris and others. Court held no licence existed that year, directing judgment for the defendant.
This report details a London case where Colman and Y Wathen sued Captain Wathen for performing at a public theatre show called the Agreeable Surprise without consent. Lord Kenyon found no substratum for the action, noting the defendant only repeated the words of the entertainment. Justice Buller discussed retentive memory and preaching a sermon, concluding the case was not within Parliament’s scope and judging for the defendant.
The Ranger from Palermo is cut out by a French Privateer. The Peggy from Charleston is captured and carried into France. Juno has captured and sent the Marta from Savannah to Bourdeaux to Ports mouth. Harriet Donald recaptured from Lisbon to London and brought into Portsmouth. Hamilton from America to Peteriburg recaptured. L Aimeable has brought to Portsmouth a French West Indiaman and a French Privateer. Mary from Liverpool has captured a large ship from St Domingo and sails to Liverpool with prize. Langriff from Bristol has taken the Double Union to Gibraltar. Henrietta from Bengal to O broad is arrived off Dover.
Yesterday evening his Majesty's ships Porcupine and Squirrel, each 24 guns, arrived at Plymouth from Guernsey and Jersey with troops that had embarked here on Friday. The Jersey invasion alarm, traced to a French incident, proved unfounded, as the supposed threat turned out to be mistaken.
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