Divorce Bill Awakens Crime Conscience In Parliament
Debates in Parliament include a divorce bill alleging incest with a widow, her new husband the Rev Calver Jey John Berwick, and the widow’s brother as executor. A female servant testified, fainting as she left the bar. Lords order the bill for a second reading to dissolve the marriage. The Slave Trade committee hearings continue until six, adjourned to Friday for further evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Vaughan
Leicester
Calver Jey John Berwick
Halloughton
William Wesby Vaughan
House of Commons May 30 debate on canals and reform
The Commons approved Lords amendments to the Oakham Canal Bill and enacted several roads and inclosure measures. A report on Catholic relief was rejected. Petitions for parliamentary reform from Glasgow Dumbartonshire Alnwick Sterlingshire Hamilton Lanark Kirkintulloch were laid on the table. The Liverpool and Commercial Credit Bills advanced, with selections of Exchequer Bill commissioners announced.
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Oakham
Hungerford
Harptry
Haddington
Shaleswell
Rock Werdvnen
Glanville
Seven Oaks
Shrewsbury
Chelmer
Bedford Charity
A Houghton
Riel
Billy
Nottingham
Gourtenay
Phezeau
Rome
Shevidiog
Glasgow
Dumbartonshire
Mr. Grey
Alnwick
Mars Thungton
Royal Levee and Foreign Policy Notes Amid War News
London dispatches describe the King's levee at St James's, audiences with Lord Amherst and Sir W Fawcett, and a Windsor-bound royal procession. Reports outline Dutch proclamations, passport grants to French émigrés, Polish partition plans, and Russia and Austria shaping Ukraine and the Danube regions. The piece critiques parliamentary reform proposals, discusses slave trade debates, Penny Post plans, and Franco-Bourbon intrigues, while noting military allocations for foreign service and logistics.
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Buckingham-house
St. James’s
Lord Amherst
W. Fawcett
Windsor
Princess Royal
Netherlands
Count Stapion
London
Bonigrade
England
Brabant
Rusia
Prusia
Poland
Warsaw
Ukraine
Russia
Turkey
Constantinople
Fox
House of Commons
Sheffield
Grevy
Bir
Grey
Northumberland
Azoperb
Lord Carlisle
France
House of Peers
Thames
Janet Mitcuext
Greenwich
Prandson
Privy Council Appointment and High Admiral Commissions
The London Gazette notes the swearing of Robert Hobart to the Privy Council and distribution of appointments. It lists Whitehall May 4 actions naming John Smith Burgess and others as High Admiral commissioners for Great Britain and Ireland, with imperial envoys for the birth of an heir and other court notices. It covers bankruptcy enlargements, supersedings, and numerous surrender notices with dates in May and June 1793, plus sugar price data and various official certificates.
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Ireland
Whitehall
John Smith Burges
East Hawall
Essex
Eng
Viennea
Ferdinand
Charles
Francis
Marcellin
Gallegiavae
John Hawkins
Gracechurch-sireet
Guildhall
Attorsey
Adams
John Roderick Smith
Wellclose
Attornis
Messrs
Ludlow and Roberts
Samuel Lay
Gold Harbour
Shoreditch
Mainstone
Essex-ftreet
Strand
John Chavens
St. Catherine’s
Lane
Victualler
Loxley Bucklersbury
Joseph Mortimer
Pafinghall-street
Wiley
Bafninghall-street
Stephen Barber
Samuel Barber
Freeman’s-count
Cornhill
Bill-Brokers
Lee
Shorcer’s-court
Throgmorton-street
Joseph Bell
Bunhill-row
Richard Carter
Bristol
Cutler
Buthttavern
Corn-street
Jenk'ns
James and
Abbott
New Inn
George James
Buth-tavern
Ciluan
Jinerg
Artornies
Melis
Mrongers-Hall
William
Attoraies
M-firs
Kinderbey
Cane Symond
Robert Everet
Thames-street
Boolting
Guildwall
Kinesley
Long
Symond
William Strother
Canterbury-place
Taylor
Featherstone-buildings
Holborn
William Patten
Oxford-street
Iaberdasher
Fox and Williams
Tooke
Langham
Jenjes Daweh
Henry Davenport
King’s Arms-Yard
John Wingate
Brifty
Edmund
William Burford
Gloucester
Atternies
Mary Brandwood
Great
Bolton
Lancashire
Star-inn
Man
Meffrs
Morris and Riddinz
Clement’s-inn
Kert Jones
Briftal
Carpenter
Bush-tavern
Brittel
Mal Mr. Lewis
Gray’s
Lords Adjourn Expectation After Chester Case Pleadings
In the Chester case the King versus Amery, counsel were called to the Bar and after pleadings three questions were referred to the Judges. The Lords ordered the Judges to give their opinion and then adjourned to Monday.
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Chester
King
Amery
Measures Pass Through Parliament on May Saturday
The Prize Captors Bill and Piercebridge Roads Bill reported and ordered engrossed. Wine and Tobacco Bill debated in committee for Monday reporting. Canterbury Chapter Bill read first time. Stockbridge Election Bill postponed to Thursday. Popham to move on Tuesday for committee revising standing orders re Canals. Exchequer Bills and commercial credit bills advanced. substantial sums authorized. Adjourned till Monday.
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Piercebridge Roads
Canterbury
Eliot
Stockbridge
Popham
Corporation of Liverpool
Bustle fashion and its dangers in a Victorian epistle
A satirical epistle condemns waist bustles and bogus fashion aiming to shame women. It mocks the growing obsession with artificial shapes, urging mothers to guard daughters and discard false imitations. The text warns of disgrace, impropriety, and the risk to virtue if trends continue.
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Betty Pan
Betty
Molly
Mrontier
Rome
Sacho
Lethehall
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Pool
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Wigton
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Theophilus Christian Blankenhagen
Bishopsgate-Street
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