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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 23, 1792
Page
2
From the London Gazette, the average sugar price for the week ending November 21, 1792 is 533 7d per hundredweight excluding customs duty. Importation costs into Great Britain are noted as payable.
A compiled list of bankrupts with surrender dates and Guildhall sessions. Names include George Gardiner Ludgate-hill warehouseman. Benjamin Montague Lambridge. Thomas Stanton Leadenhall Street merchant. Price Bury Street carpenter. John Lesley Holywell Street Mercer. Jeffrey Brown Holborn gingerbread baker. Benjamin Edwards Stratford Essex wine dealer. and others with associated surrender dates through December and January. Attorney details noted for several.
London dispatches describe a secretariat meeting at Whitehall with Lords Grenville Hawkes Burky and others as negotiations hint at admitting Lord Loucasproucu and the Duke of Portlanp to the cabinet. Reports praise Pitt, note measures to curb smuggling into France, and recount unrest in Ireland and labour tensions in Shields with rising coal and food prices.
Leyden November 19 report describes an advance guard of about boaosnen attacking Imperial rear at La Halle. French forces press the Austrians who yield then counterattack as both sides show heavy bravery. French gain momentum. Austrians retreat to Louvain with 12 to 15 thousand men. Brussels abandoned. Antwerp Namur Luxembourg remain to be held.
A London article scorns French outrages and urges British restraint while criticizing revolutionary motives. It discusses Emigrants, possible settlement in Canada or Crimea, and quotes on justice, taxation, and liberty. It notes M. Puzy’s reported death and critiques Prussia’s detention of Lafayette allies. A local legal notice and a bridge of opinion closes with praise for Judge Asquith’s charge to jurors.
The note cites a harsh punishment for aiding escaped prisoners and slaves, claiming slavery law and captivity persist in Sierra Leone. It hints at agriculture improving under a stern rule, with an Italian proverb cited. The piece muses that if such philosophic spirit spreads, Antilles emigrations may follow the coastlines.
In a LAW REPORT discussed by Lord Kenyon, a single man makes a will and later, after marrying and learning his wife is pregnant, signals an intention to revoke in favor of the wife and her heirs. The court holds that a posthumous child revokes the will, aligning English law with Civil Law, through the principle that a posthumous heir can affect the testator's distribution.
A survey suggests Glasgow may rival Manchester as Scotland’s busy trading hub. In Reading and Staffordshire reports, wages rise spark labor action among potters. Dragoon troops mobilized from Leicester to Wolverhampton if needed. A Cumberland clergyman builds a steam air engine for water lifting. An Essex-street incident involves a thief snatching a match packet from Mr White of the King’s Bench Office. Commissioned artillery cadets from Woolwich to fill posts under the Duke of Ricamona.
The court praised defense and humanity as convictions from earlier trials were partly overturned. Ann Robinson faced highway robbery charges with jury acquittal on that count but guilt for larceny. she received a transport sentence of five years. Thomas Bull and John Houghton, indicted for conspiring to free prisoners, were convicted on the conspiracy count and jailed two years, with post-term sureties.
Yesterday at twelve the Princesses attended divine service at George's Chapel Windsor and heard a sermon by the Bishop of Licurieva. Mr. Prrr hosted friends at Downs battery. Downpas has left Scotland for London. Bark Gower and the Countess of Sutherland arrived at Wimbledon from Trenham Hall. Mails arrived from Hozzam and Franpirs. Emigration to Dover continues with over 300 landed. many are army refugees fleeing French incursions. Paine's trial to proceed soon with Erskine to plead. Public unrest and riots addressed. Mr Burron of Durham praised for quelling seamen riots at Shields. Inland Department reorganized. on Friday the 23d instate, Jayer committed to the gaol.
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