15 Nov 1797
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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 15, 1797
Page
1
The text discusses how nations grow wealth through reducing spending or expanding revenues, favoring foreign trade. It argues live commerce increases wealth via foreign exchange and self-owned ships, while passive trade depends on others' industry. It also outlines exports and imports categories and notes profitable trade aligns with domestic manufacturing and naval needs.
The text argues that growth relies on expanding expertise and re exports, with foreign demand for home and imported goods. It compares barter balances, noting that exchanging goods like cotton processed into manufactured products can create value and even yield a net overplus for England in a classic trade balance example.
A King’s Bench discussion over a policy of insurance on the Argonaut involving British subjects Collet and Butler, an American cargo, and the Treaty of Commerce with the United States. Judges Grose and Kenyon push for a retrial to fix facts and potential special verdict on the extent of American participation in trade to the East Indies. A separate Breach of Promise of Marriage motion notes a broken witness carriage and an elderly plaintiff.
Police officers presented Maurice Pemberton and Jamey Cooper on felony charges for breaking glass to steal property. A twelve yard ribbon fragment tied to the case was shown as evidence. The pair were committed for Surrey county trial and the accused woman and a professional gentleman faced separate examinations for rape involving a 16 year old servant girl.
A farmer’s family escaped a blaze that destroyed a central rick and neighbored barn in Stourton Worcestershire. A wouldbe thief, alarmed by the fire, fled, leaving behind a window breach and missing clothing. The following night a barn at Elmstone Hardwicke was set alight in a bid to divert residents from the dwelling, with barley peas and apples consumed. A clerk on Temple Bar to Putney trip walked 14 miles by 8 o clock, and Dundee weaver George Mealaker was jailed for seditious acts amid Cupar arrests. Hull parish clerk William Fenwick was beaten and robbed near Drypool, with bayonet wounds and a near-fatal stab to the throat. he survived two days delirious before recovery.
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