Court case over damages in Dorchester verdict appeal
The King s Bench reviews a Dorchester case where a jury awarded excessive punitive damages. Lord Dorchester and Playdel discuss the defendant s character and duty to law, noting the need for a new trial to correct an outrageous verdict and align damages with property deterioration and inconvenience.
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Covent-garden
Bow-street
Conant
Marlborough-street
Capat
Court of King's
Playdel
Dorchester
Garrow Aid
Dorigt
London
Spigrams and a Vision of Victory in Winter Verse
A fragmentary poem scene evokes Admiral Duncan and Apollo, with lines about victory, music, and coal fire. The piece mentions divas and a land burn, weaving a seasonal reading of triumph and loss in a museum-like voice.
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Winrep
Melancholy accident at Canterbury river dipping bridge
A young woman, daughter of a West Kent Militia serjeant, fell from a dipping bridge into the Stour near Friars Barracks. The strong current swept her past flood-gates to Abbot's mill pool. A ten year old bystander and two soldiers jumped in. they were swept away but recovered the woman alive.
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West-Kent
Miblitia
S. E. Baypers
Stour
Abbot’s-mill
Melancholy Explosion Destroys Two Casks of Powder at Heaton Norris
Stockport reports a fatal accident at Heaton Norris when two powder casks aboard a light coach from Battle Sussex exploded after a candle ignited loose powder. Mrs Smith, the coachman, and a boy were wounded. Mr Smith died. the boy and coachman linger in danger with the coachman losing an eye.
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Stockport
Heaton Norris
Sussex
Mr. Smith
Wednesday court cases and oddities from the Strand to Theobald's Road
Reports from the Court of King's Bench include prosecutions against Ochfard Hamlin and Hamlin for lottery threats. Gardner and Green face theft charges after a Bow Street re‑examination. A man is questioned by the bench, and John Bryant is executed for rape, with a chaotic scene around his corpse. A 10‑year‑old gang member is held, a Fly Catcher bird wanders Theobald’s Road, and a rare share is chased through Millbank Street to the Thames. The piece closes with a stray incident about a bird, a dog, and a cat in the White Horse tap room.
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Court of
King’s Bench
Richard Ochfard
Joseph Hamlin
Mary Hamlins
Ortons
Monmouth-street
Middlesex
Max Gardner
Sarah Green
Bow-street
Farmer
John Bryant
Newgate
Bryant
Haymar
Theobald’s Road
Thames
Lord , Belgrave
Éomie
Death of the King and Franco Austrian Talks at Rastadt
Frantic dispatches report alleged death of the King of Prussia and ongoing Franco Austrian negotiations at Rastadt. Officials deny confirmatory statements while Geneva to Berlin channels note diplomacy, naval plans, and military anxieties dominate Paris briefings. French diplomacy pushes Buonaparte presidency talk and preparations for an eventual peace treaty with Austria as European powers maneuver.
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Sohaparte
Theilhard
Eapperent
Paiussi
Ithe
le Redagenr
Buonaparte
Legation
Art
Congress
Rastadt
Adina
France
Vetic. Confederaé T No
Posiille
St. Jame
Condé
Berlin
Prussia
Caillard
Parison
Texel
Republic
Nove
Peart
la Sentineller
House of Austria
England
Great-Britain
America
India
Annales Politiques
Willet and Co
Directory
Paris
Brewoft
Belfort
Caen
Emerror
Congres
Ae. Degelngna
Mariani
Rangone
Cisalpine
Ceres
Rosettes
Sophie
le Sanatique
Dunkirk
le Japon
Dannkirk
Danutr
Juliane Maria
la Confiance
Nantes
Amerigah
Paris Papers Report on European War Demands and Naval Clash
Fragmented Paris Papers recount French demand for concessions from the government and Pope, with English naval superiority and tactics noted. A London incident describes a wife’s death after a debt dispute, and a brutal husband of a neighbour’s servant linked to a marriage portion.
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Rome
Hag
Cisalpirne
Amsterdam
Redatteur
Europe
Perfor
Oxford-freet
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Yetterday
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