Fragmentary Note on Rights and Fame
A fragmented text reflects on representatives and the honourable. It speaks of vigilance for peculiar rights and envy of the world. It hints at choosing and fame, fidelity, and personal steps.
18 May 1796
Page 1
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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 18, 1796
Page
1
A fragmented text reflects on representatives and the honourable. It speaks of vigilance for peculiar rights and envy of the world. It hints at choosing and fame, fidelity, and personal steps.
Fragmentary OCR sample hints at a city event or mandate involving citizens and officials. The readable bits mention fellow citizens and a city matter, but core details and names are missing to define the action or outcome. The passage seems to record a local civic note or public notice context.
London accountants publish auction details listing items for sale at 3 o clock including muffins silk thread linen nankeen shawls gloves haberdashery lace ware and assorted groceries. The notice names vendors and goods such as silver stockin gs laces and china with a focus on household and decorative items.
Peremptory sale ordered by the High Court of Chancery transfers ownership of Bagnall Hall and associated lands at Bagnall Stoke upon Trent. The property, totaling about 13 acres with a leasehold dwelling, Crofts and water rights, lies near Wetley Moor and Bagnall Reservoir. Occupied by Thomas Dale and Sampson Webb, the sale follows a Southampton chancery process with access to Master’s Chambers for particulars.
An officer on the Princess Charlotte recounts the ship striking rocks off the Isle of Wight after a man of war rescue. The report also covers Sierra Leone trade, colony finances, and migration efforts, detailing captains, ships, and new plantations amid wartime disruptions.
The Directors recently presented a chairman’s report detailing the colony’s current state. It notes continued settlement improvement after a prior plan to limit African risk, improved climate health, and explains deaths of sailors believed due to hardship and lack of medicines and shelter amid hostile natives.
Law brief describes a Jeweller and Silversmith suing the son of a rich man from Upper Seymour Street Portman Square for 441 for items furnished in his trade. The defendant pleaded infancy but the plaintiff argued necessity. Items include a tongued scraper tooth-pick cases pearl rings and gold necklace amid questions of age and conduct.
On May 16 in Lewes the Swedish galiot Anna Amelia, master Gottfrid Volckring, wrecked near Berlin Gap while laden with wine from Bourdeaux to Lubeck. A Friday cliff fall of chalk, about 10 000 tons, would have buried rescuers if it had struck at low water. The wreck remained on the beach for seven pounds before further falls endangered the site. Horsham and Lindfield fairs report cattle prices, with Horsham prices high and many beasts unsold, then Crawley and Lindfield offers showing moderating values.
Cambridge reports Prince Win liaw of Gloucester and his suite at Trinity College Lodge for the L L D degree ceremony. An estimated two to three thousand spectators witnessed a grand, elegant proceeding. The Rev Richard Wilson receives the rectory of Moreton Essex worth 3000 pounds per year, after the vacancy left by the late Rev William Salisbury. William Warkman is presented to the rectory of Ford in Northumberland by Lord Delaval, succeeding the late Rev George Marsh.
A muddled Bristol May 16 entry notes a Stone's School garden yield and a young person described as healthy yet remarkable. It mentions Mr Da and Mr Holt of Wi Agriculture, a year of age, and vague data about a damp condition and possession. A farmer named Hale near Berkeley is said to have died after a wagon wheel accident near Millbury Heath.
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