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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 13, 1797
Page
3
The passage argues ministers and rulers bear heavy duties beyond legal power, facing a moral responsibility to conscience, glory, and posterity. It warns that public trust will be scrutinized by a tribunal where kingdoms and nations must answer for their actions in war.
Dublin reports the Lord Lieutenant issued a Proclamation offering a reward for the arrest of Bennett’s murderers in Carlow. Trials on High Treason are postponed due to ill health of several judges and complexity of cases. The Crown plans to proceed next term with essential trials while bringing prisoners for counsel and an agent. Insurgents attacked homes, fired many shots, and Yeomanry pursued them resulting in arrests and an approver.
Captain Cores received his passport on Saturday last from Paris to enable him to reside in France as agent for French prisoners. Mr Swinzoane is expected to return to England by the next packet. Early Sunday morning, villains broke into the property of Mr Charies Griffes in Pratt Place Hampstead Road and carried off wearing apparel and furniture.
In a case before the Court of King’s Bench dated November 1, Atkinson and others, assignees of Hodges, sued Williroff and another. Hodges bought tar from the defendants on six months credit, paid part, and left a balance. Hodges later became bankrupt. the defendants refused to return 1761 alleging setoff against a future acceptance. The court held this as mutual debts and credits and ruled for the defendants, with judgment for the defendant.
The case concerns Coke v Uu Jennings on a charter party for four cargoes of deals from Lisbon to Liverpool. The ship stranded at Norfolk before delivery. defendant received and sold the goods in his own benefit. Plaintiffs seek pro rata freight. defendant argues delivery to Liverpool was a condition precedent. Lord Kenyon emphasizes enforcing the express contract. payment due on delivery or corresponding bills. The court finds no duty to pay freight where the vessel never reached Liverpool.
An assault case in Somersetshire before Mr Justice Lawrence ends with a guilty verdict. Both men are medical practitioners who attended a miscarried patient. Tensions escalate when insults are exchanged and pistols are brandished without loaded ammunition. Lord Kenyon condemns the conduct and the matter proceeds to a further proceeding.
The High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh agreed to hear Mrs Barberie de la Motte against Sir William Fardine, after a prior divorce in 1787. She faced suborning charges for bribing witnesses, but failed to appear and the court ordered the diet forsaken. The other notices mention Signora Ancexty at the King's Theatre, a French privateer near Scarborough, government plans for horse barracks near Lewes, a uniform change for line regiments, a French prison riot near Bristol, a fox chase at Goodwood ending with dog and fox found dead, and a fatal clothes fire accident involving a four year old girl in Steyning.
Parish officers prosecute Thomas Searle and Rigaberh Nis wives for keeping a common gambling house near Covent Garden. Warrant issued. wife held, bail denied pending husband’s prosecution. Frances Pearkes and De Joachim face forged receipt charges linked to Pimlico property sale and Skinner and Dyke’s drafts. Pearkes released. De Joachim held for further examination.
Epitaph laments Richard Munday alias Hodges a noted sportsman with lines on his birth and death. It notes wealth and selfish care for riches, mockery of worship days, and his success at the game of E. Q. The verse portrays him as ungrateful to mankind and supportive of the turf in death.
Epitaph laments Lettice's death with a grave wry mockery of mortality. The verse quips that Death, in a macabre joke, has sampled Lettice as if salad, in a quiet churchyard setting. The speaker addresses Death with taunting irony.
Cor Ct 1ANGE reports a mixed Wheat supply with generally indifferent quality and prices near last week. Barley arrivals from Norma and Suffolk push prices lower, oats and beans holding briefly but forecast to drop next week. flour price listed and grain prices for various lots noted.
Financial notes show Exchequer Bills and India Stocks listed with figures such as 1494 and 241 155. Lottery Tickets appear in the record alongside conference details for the account above.
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