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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 09, 1798
Page
3
The Royal Affair was given by Commission to fades public bills. The Commissioners were the Duke of Clarence, the Lord Chancellor, and the Earl of Chesterfield. The Bills on the Table were forwarded in their respective faces and adjourned.
The House of Commons read Bodgington's Divorce Bill a third time and passed it. The Newfoundland Rum Duty Bill was ordered to be read a second time tomorrow. A Lords message announced agreement to the Alien Bill and several private Bills. A Veterinary College petition was presented. Reports on the National Debt Reduction Bill and Tile of Dean were received and proceedings ordered. Salt duties and trade protection measures were debated, with motions to form a committee to consider duties on salt and to postpone export and import considerations until Monday. Discussions on armed associations, corn import indemnities, and the slave carrying bill followed, with divisions on several clauses and amendments. Edinburgh and Inverness items noted a Gaelic chapel donation and a pistol duel incident near Fort George.
A circular from the Arch Bishop and meeting of two Archbishops and eleven bishops urges clergy to avoid taking military commissions and to focus on spiritual duties, while promising to assist in defense if invasion or insurrection occurs. The resolutions prohibit clergy from army service unless emergency requires it.
The document shows contripu tions paid into the Bark on Monday last with figures 214 120 9g 2 and an assessed total of 713 139 19 f or £3,927,246 8 7. Mr. Coxe of Norfolk reduced his assessed taxes by appeal on income grounds, fearing a rate of 7600l per annum.
The ad warns customers to buy Steel's Lavender Water only from 155 Catherine Street to avoid imitation that could harm Steel's reputation. It advertises 30s per dozen and lists wholesale terms. It then touts Spilsbury's Antiscorbutic Drops with dramatic cures including leprosy and scurvy, featuring cases from Gore, Palmer, and others, noting distribution through Bristol and London vendors.
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