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Newspaper
Express And Evening Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 03, 1798
Page
1
In a long session the House debated a land tax measure and funding schemes, with speakers arguing about public finances, the Consolidated Fund, and the effect on landholders. Opposition warned the plan favored monied interests, while supporters claimed benefits and stability, as issues of Ireland and coercion were raised indirectly before final votes.
Stocks and bank shares feature across late century listings. Notes include April bank closure figures, general price changes, and exchange bill differentials. Arait 2 and Navy stocks appear with cent values and 3 percent censors listed. Lottery tickets noted as sold, with prices and statuses.
The Express reports Mr Pirr's land tax sale scheme tied to redeeming the tax with stock and annuities, proposing eighty million pounds of three percents to prop up funds. Other items note mail dispatches, Good Friday proclamations, a noble death, a bishop entering the House of Lords, lottery prizes, naval engagements, a mint robbery, Battle Abbey lodging, and weather effects on crops.
Reports from Sunday night claim a force of insurgents numbering about five hundred clashed with a Liens tenant and the Lismore Yeomanry, with insurgents said beaten and many killed though details remain uncertain. Included are arrests in Newtown-Mount-Kennedy, executions of treason charges, and further attacks on Kilkenny and Dublin areas.
The General Post Office, Marcel 39, will assemble a bag on the qth of April for Demerary, Essequibo and Berbice. Letters will be forwarded from Falmouth by packet boat to the West Indies, with fevers for those settlements mailed on the first and third Wednesday each month with the Well India Mails. Command of the Postmaster General. Anthony Jobb Francis Freeling joint sec.
ARCHER'S IRISH POPLINS AND TABINET WARE offered by No 8 Henaretta Street Covent Garden. The firm touts royal patronage and exclusive mourning goods with fixed prices. Stock includes poplins bombazets lustrings sarsnets Italian Norwich drapes and several mourning fabrics in various patterns and weights. A dedicated room for mourning goods promises low prices for ready money.
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