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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 09, 1798
Page
1
New and useful publications in pocket size sold by Boosey seeks to explain stocks and funds with an epitome and equation table. It includes a history of the Bank of England, metals, coin, bank notes, bills of exchange, and a list of country bankers with whom they transact.
A report covers mineralogical work by Mr. Day and analyses by Guylles de Morweaux on tin acids and crystal families. It notes Burtinart’s orbit of a new comet, Montambry’s improvements in naval cannon carriages, and abstracts from the Institute’s Physical Sciences class on rural economy, veterinary tests, and agricultural methods.
A fragment from a French scientific gathering describes various chemical studies. It mentions a horse’s brain disease misattributed by Citizens Hazarp and Letrevec, discovery of Strontium sulfate in France, nitre-muriatic acid dissolving gold, verdigris production, acetat of copper crystals, a Zoomhic acid from animal sources, and red lead from Siberia with new earths from Maryn marin analysis.
The court sustained the surcharge on Mr. Wakefield for hiring two horses beyond two days, ruling that post horses taxed for a year apply regardless of short use. The decision follows the 12 Geo III act clause, treating hired horses as job horses and charging the annual duty to the hirer.
The document relays a proclamation by the High Sheriff of County Tipperary urging emigrants to return to their homes within eight hours and detailing enforcement measures. It praises Mrs. Bunbury for defending her house against rebels and notes orders to local officers to identify and compel noncompliant emigrants to quit towns. The notice ends with a reference to a 1798 event in Luthesn and parliamentary business involving the Earl of Kineston.
A May 7 report from Lewes describes a massive powder explosion near Battle that wrecked seven buildings, with powder quantity measured in tons. Mr Harvey’s house, about 100 yards away, was blown apart. a sand stone and timber were hurled far from the mill, injuring an elderly man who fell from a tree. Workmen clear debris to rebuild with safer, spaced construction to prevent fire spread.
Kingston reports extreme cold in the interior with scarce hoar frost. A plantation near Black River was raided by about 20 Spaniards who took a girl and a four year old child, fled by longboats after pursuing residents, leaving bloodstains and wounded robbers along the beach while the narrator avoided injury. Two enslaved boys and six horses belonging to Mr. Collins were found dead after being benighted in a wood near Captain Ward's Mountain. Extract dated Black River December 20.
In the House of Lords on Wednesday May g, Farr Mansfield took the usual oaths and his seat. Counsel spoke in the appeal where Joshua Smith is the appellant and Henry Jones and Sir James Cockburn are the respondents. The matter was adjourned.
The House read the second time the Turnpike Regulation Bill and the National Debt Reducing Bill, with committees on papers about the Isle of Man. Reports criticized alleged cruelty to French prisoners while defending cartel aims, and Pitt moved a bill to revive silver coinage. Debates focused on legality of land tax alterations and objections by Sir John Sinclair.
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