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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 15, 1793
Page
3
Parliament notes show Lord Reinder's Insolvent Bill postponed into Wednesday next. The House of Lords was summoned after the vote and then adjourned for the day.
In the Commons on May 10 the coals cost resolutions were reported and a bill ordered. Several inclosure and road bills were read, passed, or ordered for engrossing. A motion to permit exporting Irish goods to England under regulation was carried. Lottery propositions to be stated tomorrow. A bribery bill was withdrawn after opposition. The India Government and Trade report was deferred. Adjourned.
Friday morning in the House of Commons covers government and trade bills plus committees as the King Queen and Princess Royal attend a drawing room at St James's. Attendees include numerous peers bishops and officials. at 4 pm the drawing room adjourned and the Queen hosted a concert and card party at Buckingham Palace.
The House debated trial dates for Warren Hastings with adjournments and messages to the Commons. Dispatches to East India House were closed and delivered. Social events at court featured arrivals and arrivals of nobility, while reporters noted racing crowds, hazards, and quirks of fashionable life. A Leicestershire gentleman Eaton was found dead in Haymarket’s Panton Street, with coroner's inquest proceeding. Public notices question hackney coach act and transit rates.
Fragment from a late 18th century issue recounts Captain Clements of Britain's Dunkirk squadron sending a conciliatory letter to Brigadier General Keremeyer, threatening harm if Dunkirk refuses, and Keremeyer’s sharp refusal to engage. It also notes American privateering letters of marque and a broader critique of republics versus monarchies, ending with a remark on a portage charge dispute and the vessel Providence taken by a French privateer.
After two days of deliberation the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council issued 200000l in aid to solvent merchants lacking specie to continue business. A committee of nobles and manufacturers to oversee use of funds was formed. A fatal harbour accident occurred when a gun salute wounded a rower who died instantly.
On Thursday Jaf was picked up about a quarter mile off the Quay, a lid from the deck of a French prize sent up by the Scourge about three weeks ago. He was much eaten by the fish.
Wheat has risen to 8s a bushel and barley also advanced. Fair samples fit for grailing fetch ss.toss to 34 per bushel. High barley prices stem from harvest wastage, with tainted barley used for cattle and hogs. Oats have risen as well, likely for the same reason, tightening market supply.
Lewes reports brighten the season with ample hay prospects and a bountiful fruit year ahead. Blossomed trees show no blight, promising a healthy orchard. Meanwhile, five horses from John Shepherd of Paddington, Bedfordshire, entered a barn and ate dressed wheat, resulting in two deaths and two more at risk, with one horse dying after drinking.
On the eighth instant a melancholy accident occurred near Chelmsford as a chaise crested by a cart of horses unlucky for a child. The child escaped serious injury, though bruised. Reading fair featured a cattle market with well filled stock and moderate prices.
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