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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 21, 1798
Page
3
A lengthy Dublin Castle dispatch details numerous raids by United Irishmen and insurgents across Wicklow, Kildare, Waterford, Cork, and surrounding areas. Accounts describe armed bands looting, destroying property, seizing arms, and detaining travelers, with attacks on couriers, mail coaches, and post offices.
The Lords debated the Royal Canal Company conduct amid claims of misrepresentation and dubious profits. Mr Frazer testified the company spent most funds privately, easing concerns. a motion to adjourn the Wide Street and Coal Tax Bill was debated, with Carhampton opposing and the house adjourning to October 8.
On Friday the Prince of Wales and several Generals toured posts from Foikttorie to Hythe. Artillery shells were fired at Hythe Park. He is recovering from an accident and the Halifax assembly voted him a star worth five hundred guineas. His conduct and affable manners are praised. Saturday the 3d regiment moved from Malden to the old barracks at Chelmsford.
This week new hops are marketed amid brisk picking as weather changes. Prices stand around 8s per cwt with further demand noted. Most hops remain short of estimated quantity though fully ripe and ready for sale. Late winds have reduced bagged yields but pockets of better quality may offset.
On Saturday evening Andrew Fleming was brought up for riotous behaviour at Drury Lane Theatre for throwing an apple from the gallery before the curtain. A gentleman in the orchestra narrowly escaped injury to the eye. The magistrate Mr Strou urged prosecution, Fleming bound over to appear at the next Sessions after a bail pledge.
Orders are sent to Scotland for the supply of a large quantity of cannon by consent of Government for America. Reports describe two men at a floating dock near Brill, one violently distressed and later drowning. A post boy robbery near Charing. letters bags, and the thief captured, with bags missing. A Sheffield meeting ends with a soldier drawing his sword on non pious spectators, then restrained. Races at Leicester yield multiple injuries. a baker fined for selling underweight bread. A group of robbers linked to Barnet road depredations remanded. additional arrests made for pickpocketing in the city.
Married notices report Edmund Crainge of Warnford to Miss Cotes at Brighton. Richard Marth of the Second Wiltshire Militia to Miss Tane Loudsa Lyford at Winchester. Michael Richardson, merchant of Liverpool, to Miss Mary Timmins of Wolverhampton.
Died list including Edward Montagu Esquire late master in chancery in Hampstead in his 82d year. Also notices of Mrs Moore of Oxford Road and South Molton Street, Mr Charles Serjeant Trumpeter of Covent Garden Theatre, Mrs Hill wife of Rev Dr Hill of Thorp Northampshire, Mrs Eliza Seddon of Aldersgate fret, and Mrs Garrow of Totteridge Hertfordshire.
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