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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 29, 1797
Page
4
The Royal Assent was given to the Land and Malt Bills Bank Restriction Bill Scotch Small Notes and the Cam brick Importation Bills The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor Earl Spencer and the Archbishop of Canterbury The Lords heard counsel in the Scotch Appeal Lothian v Ros and others and adjourned the further hearing until tomorrow.
The House of Commons at Titas Bay on an election petition day counted 46 percent at 62 members present, so the ballot to test the petition could not occur. A motion to summon the House tomorrow was carried and the body adjourned.
The Postscript reports the Peace with France ratified by His Majesty and outlines projected invasion plans. It notes 150000 soldiers to be used, naval boosts in Holland, and a planned 70 million florin tax to fund defenses. Envoys quit Paris. political shifts in France and Prussia are described with conjecture on Rastadt conferences and turmoil in Europe.
The article contrasts German and Paris reports on the Coxgress at Rajadi. It details the Imperial Aulic Decree urging Deputies to pursue peace while preserving the German Empire’s integrity, cites the Elector of Corperes assurances amid evolving treaties, and notes French directives to organize conquered lands between the Meuse and Rhine into departments under the French Constitution.
Yesterday morning his Majesty rode in Windsor Great Park accompanied by Prince Ernest. The text outlines court mourning attire for the late Prussian monarch, with changes over Sundays and January 1798. It notes a Council of the Casrner Ministers at Lord Grenville's office and a War Office deputation interview, plus naval and military movements and a suppression of a French journal in Constantinople.
The article argues the so called triple assessment is misunderstood not a tax but a capital based contribution. It contends the measure affects the wealthy less and clarifies how expenditures and property sale cover the payment. Examples show modest households facing small annual affert taxes while merchants and lenders may face larger sums. It urges London merchants to lead by example paying larger sums to the Bank for receipt credit.
Nantes reports the privateer Sandwich returning after severe gales and a near engagement with the Indian, a French ship laden with 18 8-pounders and some 300 Negro crew. The paper notes suspected Santhonax aboard and doubts whether the Indian was captured or lost, plus other European political and symbolic anecdotes.
Reports from Berwick and Whitehaven recount a violent November storm with a ship breaking up off Warren near Holy Island. A countryman rescued crew members thrice from perilous waters, while others perished. Local heroism noted as boats searched the wreckage. Additional arrivals include the Ariel from Cherbourg and the La Baileur, captured by the Anson, plus other ships entering Plymouth and Portsmouth docks.
Seven runners from the Public Office Marlborough-street were brought before magistrates charged with assaulting Richard Limberick, an officer of the same office. In Drury-lane a quarrel led to a scuffle. Hamilton struck Limberick with a cutlass, causing severe wounds and fear of death from blood loss before hospital care. They were committed to separate prisons until the prosecutor is declared out of danger.
Yesterday St Andrews day the Royal Society held an Anniversary meeting in Somerset Place Strand to elect a Council for the year. The Old Council included Banks Blagden Cavendith Home Markstyne Moxton Musgrave Pitt Planta Wegg Whitheld. The New Council includes Auckland Davis Gray Loyd Milman Ord Rathleigh Staunton Thompson and Wal slip. Officers named as President Banks Wegg Planta Gray. Members dined at Crown and Anchor. A total lunar eclipse is forecast for Monday at two. Forty three prisoners were moved to Newgate to await trial at the Old Bailey Sessions starting Wednesday.
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