Adulterous Trial Recalls Major Hook Case Verdict
The court heard damning testimony against Major Hook for alleged adultery with Mrs Campbell, niece of his associate, amid witness accounts of impropriety and joint travels. Counsel urged jury restraint, emphasizing civil damages over criminal judgment, and the jury awarded 3,000 in damages to the plaintiff after deliberation.
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Brody
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Campbell
Joseph Reppington
Bath Hotel
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Indive
Snes
South Wales
Robert Green
Major
Coufsel
East Indies
Capt. Campbell
James
India
Europe
Lord Clive
F. Sykes
Pamphlet Libel Case Against James Holland in Oxford Street
May Q the King and Y Holland report a rule to the cause over a criminal information against James Holland a Print-feller in Oxford Street for selling and publishing a pamphlet titled Gloucester Battles Pathetic particulars of a poor boy sent to seven years solitary confinement in Gloucester Jail and observations addressed to people in power The affidavit says the story is groundless.
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James Holland
Oxford’ Street
Gloucester
The King V Mackreth Challenge to Attorney General
The defendant appeared to answer the challenge to the King's Attorney General. After remarks by Exeme Mingay and Bearcroft Ne Bord Kemjen the court prepared to deliver judgment. He ordered the defendant committed to the King's Bench prison awaiting sentence.
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London Gazette 1793 Public Notices and Bankrupts List
The item lists appointments in Whitehall with May dates, including William Haary Earl of Darndon becoming Lieutenant of Durham and a baronetcy granted to Frayers Barine. It also presents the average sugar price for the week and a long bankrupted debtor surrender schedule across London and provincial towns with multiple names, places, and surrender dates.
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May
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City of London
Great Britain
Libel case against Daniel Holt in Newark Journal
The defendant Daniel Holt, printer of the Newark Journal, faced a judgment for libel against Mr Brough, barrister. He was fined three pounds and sentenced to six calendar months imprisonment in the care of the keeper. The trial of the indictment is postponed.
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Newark Journal
Brough
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