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Newspaper
Express And Evening Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 10, 1798
Page
2
Domestic intelligence covers parliamentary proceedings erasure of Mr Fox from Privy Councillors list accounts from Ireland Law report Royal Academy poetry duel ship news markets races stocks and miscellanies Foreign intelligence notes Bernadotte proclamation on Vienna fruitless attack on St Marcou and a message from the U S president on France transactions
London reports a May 11 drawing room attended by Princesses and nobility, with the Duke of Portman and others present. meanwhile dispatches from Portsmouth detail a French gunboat attack, seven boats sunk, and English resistance. Admiralty notes, Brussels church sales, and a broken ankle at the Jal Ballet wrap the day’s items.
In the House of Commons on May 10, 1795, Boddingtons Divorce bill passed third reading. Pitt moved to form a Committee of the Whole to debate Salt Duty and other bills while the Royal assent was granted by commission to several duties and taxes. A bill to billet yeomanry troops for training was approved. A committee examined corn losses from 1795 to 1796 with widespread debate on compensation and government restraint. The session adjourned after proceedings on slave carrying and other measures.
A critique profiles No 91 portrait of the Countess of Clare by Hoorer as lacking unity with rural setting. No 299 shows Major O'Shea by M A Shee, praised for progress and vigor. The artist’s bold figures, warm coloring, and finished minor parts are noted as part of a coherent landscape and overall merit.
The Earl of Mansrerp took oaths and his seat in the House of Peers on Wednesday. A note says the Duke of Clarssez has not been appointed to any ship but offers to defend the country. C. C. Western, M. P. raises an armed association. Keeny has cleared upwards of 500 suviers by his benefit. A large Drury Lane crowd attended a Turkish Pleniposiled performance and Mrs Martyr’s house receipts totaled about 4asol with agol at doors. Lord Morera faces trials at Maidilane. Madame Rose is indisposed and may return to the Confenent. The Castle Spectre drew a full fashionable audience again. Mrs. Jonpaw sings well. The play has earned managers upwards 9 ooc!. A Clyde river accident saw a boy, four to five, fall in. a woman retrieved the body, then a surgeon restored life. The Humane Society awarded rewards to the rescuer and the house helper, urging public support for its actions.
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