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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 24, 1793
Page
1
An adjourned general meeting of planters merchants and others interested in trade to West India Islands will be held tomorrow at London Tavern at one o clock precisely. Secretary:
A historic note describes the public relief effort for French refugees, detailing measures to reduce pensioner numbers and keep aid for aged, infirm, and indigent women and helpless children. It notes funds are insufficient to cover all needs and that some exiles may remain on Jersey and Guernsey for now.
May 21 meets of the Crown and Anchor Society in Strand for war widows and orphans, with attendance urged for special affairs. Parliamentary notes record a House of Commons session on May 24 discussing Stockbridge election, the Lottery debate, Newfoundland courts, Ireland forts, abolition of slave trade, Botany Bay convicts, and India trade regulations with riders and patronage issues.
An advertisement from W Bacon of No 150 Oxford Street London promotes Dr Huxham s Tincture of Peruvian Bark. It claims superior preparation by an eminent chemist, notes health uses after fevers loss of appetite nervous complaints periodic headaches and digestive ills and lists price 2s 3d with directions for use. It warns buyers the bottle is certified by W Bacon.
Their Lordships after reading several Bills adjourned to the Frial of Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall and returned to their chamber sending a message to the Commons that they would proceed next day at ten o'clock in the morning.
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