This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 17 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 31, 1797
Page
4
Evening Mail reports business in the House of Corvions this day including consideration of his Majesty's Message on the mutiny by seamen and proceedings of committees on the Loan Discount Bill and on Supply and Ways and Means.
The Admiralty reports a mutiny at the Nore and government measures. Dispatches from Sheerness arrive while Admiral Duncan’s fleet remains near Yarmouth, with 30,000 more troops ready for foreign service. A royal proclamation orders suppression of mutinous acts and warns subjects to aid in enforcing obedience.
Correspondent reports mutineers alarmed near Sheerness and Gravesend with 2000 extra soldiers, red flag flying on 20 ships, seamen divided, and blocks on shore. Delegates guard access. boats may travel with caution. Garrison and ships act as two hostile forces with limited contact.
Report from Harwich states three sailors aboard the St Fiorenzo were killed when mutineers fired on the vessel as she escaped the Nore. The letters arrive amid ongoing hostilities and peril at sea.
Yesterday two o clock the Kine at St James's Palace held a Drawing Room with thin attendance. A levee followed and Earl Howe to be invested with the Blue Ribband. At East India House a General Court debated Board of Control orders on Arcos private debts. Count Berxstrom's health declines in Copenhagen. Alexander Smartett Younger is elected MP for Dunbarton.
IRELAND BELFAST May 26 At four o'clock on the evening of Thursday the 2th unit Lieut Gen Laxe directed Col Harper and Mr Fox to proceed with as Minch expedition to the cotton manufactory of Robert Armstrong on the Falls Road near Belfast. On arrival before alarm two men on watch, they finished and his assistant forging pikes. Threatening them with death they revealed a secreted forge nearby newly forged pikes. A detachment from Monaghan militia and yeomanry levelled the forge. The pikes were hung round the villains. more weapons found. Yesterday James Adams of Island Magee was brought in by artillery. Some pikes were stuck through his hat and others hung round him. On Tuesday John Mc Clure was apprehended on a charge of high treason.
Donaghadee on May 24 notes the privates who burned the Belfast Star printing office then gutted the home of a man named Alexander and two other houses. May 26 reports Belfast militia arms found in a glazier’s house, including a mortar, swivel, coats labeled Belfast National Guards, and a Crown and Tree of Liberty motif. furniture burned in the street as a procession formed.
A London period discusses who should receive a Loyalty Loan bonus, favoring original subscribers with receipts, and critiques those who sold subscriptions before the last loan. It notes naval mutiny in Britain, praises Lord St Vincents fleet, and contrasts Portsmouth and Sheerness seamen, calling for loyal conduct. It reports a Hyde Park review of the London and Westminster Volunteer Cavalry, praising discipline but noting low numbers. The piece mentions the King ordering a donation for returning a miniature of the late King of France, a copper-plate bank note issue for the East India Company, and counterfeit half-guineas recently circulated.
A fragmentary note from Chatham describes ongoing naval suspense with red flags on ships at the Nore, strengthened Gravesend defenses, the Lancaster blocked at Long Reach, and military precautions as cavalry guard routes toward Rochester bridge. sailors were dispatched to Chatham.
Four sailors arrive in Rochester from Deal this afternoon in four port-chaises and proceed for Sheerness. Supposed to be delegates from ships in the Downs.
Delegates meet Commissioner HarTWELLs at his Sheerness Dockyard home seeking two months pay in advance and royal pardon. He accompanies them aboard ships, promising to push the proposal in town. Mutiny spirit remains limited to about a third of the fleet as public anger grows. Seamen restrictions tighten at the garrison with several confined.
This morning the Isis Agamemnon Ardent and Leopard men of war of Admiral Duncan's Fleet entered our Roads near Yarmouth. They left Admirals Duncan and Onstow in Ofeley Bay.
Plymouth reports two principal mutineers of the Marines at Stonehouse Barracks were brought to the citadel at four o'clock this morning with a strong escort for trial. Further notices detail arrivals of ships and frigates at Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Deal, including Sans Pareille, 84 guns. Ruffell, 74 guns. Fury, 16 guns. Alcmerne, 32 guns. and Diana frigate, plus arrivals from the West Indies and Lisbon with accompanying smaller vessels.
Yesterday at the Old Bailey three prisoners were capitally convicted. Saint John Clifford Jefsop, alias John Jefsop, alias John St. John, alias Captain Harcourt, alias Captain Clifford, stole a black horse from James Gardener. Joseph Chafe and William Borgen burglariously broke into William Higginbottom's house and stole 86 pairs of stockings valued at 151. Eight received felony convictions and four were acquitted.
Yesterday at Ealing the Rev William Goodenough of Christ Church Oxford wed Miss Goodenough eldest daughter and the Rev Francis Minthall Rector Nunney wed Miss Henrietta Goodenough second daughter of the Rev Dr Goodenough at Ealing Middlesex On Tuesday at Bath William Wilberforce MP for York wed Miss Spooner of Elmdon House Warwickshire Also Old Swinford Worcestershire John Gardner wine merchant wed Miss North Stourbridge Thursday the Lord Bishop of Exeter united Benjamin Harrison Treasurer of Guy's Hospital with Miss Pelly Up ton Essex
Notices record the death of the Hon Mrs Catherine Dillon at Rodney Hall Norfolk after a secluded life from youth, her monastic residence at Montargis, and her later years with former companions, praised for philosophy grounded in religion. Also noted are brief obituaries for Arthur Bedford M D and Mrs Fuhr y wife of Edward Fulk and the Rev Thomas Leigh Bennett.
Fragmentary OCR style data lists bank stock figures with percentages and figures such as 115, 47 46, and 4 per cent. The text references Conf and annuity like terms, suggesting a financial page note on stock quotes and company indicators without coherent narrative. Entities include bank, per cent, and assorted numeric values.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.