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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 14, 1798
Page
3
The court heard that the prisoner, age 40, was accused of violating laws by condemning Scripture to justify his conduct. The jury found him guilty after arguments on fanaticism and perversion of religious texts. The case emphasizes submission to laws as a first principle of Holy Religion and the community’s safety.
The King appoints Right Hon. George Spencer Earl Spencer, Right Hon. Charles Lord Arden, Sir Philip Stephens Bart, James Gambier, and William Young to be His Majesty's Commissioners for executing the Office of High Admiral of the kingdoms Great Britain and Ireland and dominions. Also lists upcoming bankrupts and dividends with surrender dates and venues across London and cities.
Letters from Copenhagen Genoa and Cherbourg signal settling differences, political strife and impending revolutionary actions. Admiral Neufox fails to break from Sicily ports as rioting erupts in New York over contrasting cheers, while France tightens military service rules and property inheritance restrictions. News describes ships captured near Cape Breton and by French privateers, plus trials for riot and graveyard theft in Clerkenwell.
The Drury Lane theatre opened the season on Saturday with a benefit for the orphan family of the late Mr Palmer. The liberal profits from the first performance supported distressed relatives of a meritorious actor. The house was crowded. hundreds failed to gain admission to the pit and boxes amid a festive mood. The Stranger drew deep emotion from the audience through its bearing on Mr Palmer’s fate, with Mr Kemare and Mrs Sippions delivering memorable scenes. Receipts are estimated at nearly 8col. The principal performers were greeted with annual plaudits.
The King and Princess Sorata rode to Moreton to visit James Franpton, major of the Dorset shire Yeomanry, who was away. After lunch they toured the Infantry Camp at the Nore, where Sea Fencibles fired a royal salute. They tea d with Captain Forests of the Shropshire Grenadiers before an excursion to Wyke Common and an evening theatre visit by Rowan Parry.
Reports from Dublin note Pat Byrne of Grafton Street among transportees, with terms eased for many accused rebels. French officer captured in Newry escorted to the Castle, and the Leicestershire Militia under Duke Burtanp lands in city. Lord Cornwallis and Earl Fitzwilliam arrive. insurgents in Westmeath and Wicklow disperse after French surrender. In Waterford, transports Haarlem and others anchor at Dunmore, while regiments land.
Friday a Revenue Officer Uriah Rowe aboard the West Indiaman Three Sisters was examined at the Marine Office Wapping on suspicion of aiding the embezzlement of twenty one bags of coffee during his watch. He was committed for further examination. The church of Home Lacey in Herefordshire was broken into last week and robbed of the communion plate.
The Imperial Deputation presses for a swift peace with the French Republic, urging concessions on tolls, fortresses and debts. Reports from Rastadt, Basel, and Francefort describe mobilizations, debates on Article six, and calls from Baltic and Italian fronts for rapid settlement while preserving imperial property and independence.
Vienna reports Prince Repain met with Emperor and Baron Thugut after arrival of Ruffian auxiliaries at the river Bog. Buoneparte reportedly landed at Alexandria with confirmations from Smyrna and Constantinople. The Porte and Russia prepare to oppose the French with effect. embargo on French property in the Turkish empire is said to be in place amid Egypt's contested landing.
A farmer's wife near Ribton welcomed triplet boys and the mother is said to be well alongside a previous birth of twins. At Barton near Malton, Lady Primrose delivered two sons and a daughter who are expected to live. Miss Crossy, injured in an overturned carriage at Knaresborough, died from the wound. A Glatton Indiaman boatswain and his wife fell into the Thames at Blackwall. both disappeared and bodies not yet found.
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