Lords Pass Bills Amid Debate and Fees Row
The session details multiple readings and royal assent by commission to bills including Alien, Town Corporate Causes, and Yeomanry Cavalry Bill let, with debate on Misdemeanour Costs and an amendment to delay. A market of costs for catching escapes is approved, while other measures like Salt Office accounts and port improvements move forward or defer. A court action over misused names yields a nominal damages verdict of one shilling.
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Lords
Yeomanry
Orr
Rose
Commissioners of Salt
England
Scotland
Mainwaring Rose
House of Peers
Yeomanry Cavalry
Mainwaring
Suan le
Wilberforce
Buxton
Burdon
Salt Office
Lusuindton
London
Law intelligence case of O Connor against Cuarter
This report covers an action for damages over assault and false imprisonment. The plaintiff, mistaken as Stephen Kemble, faced arrest under a warrant allegedly used by an illegal lottery agent. Witnesses exposed the suspect's impudence and dubious identity, with Garrow and Lord Kenyon involved in court management.
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Hok
Stephen Kemble
Isaac O'Connor
Exchequer
Wood
Newgate
Garrow
O'Connor
Kemble
Sloane Square
Lord Kenyon
Gaxnow
Maritime convoy and fleet losses from Caribbean waters
April 14 dispatch reports large merchant fleet of nearly 200 vessels sailing for England under Weymouth convoy. Several ships captured or retaken in West Indies and Caribbean run, including Archimedes, Adventure, Princess Loula, Johanna, Albion, Burton, Winchester, Jonge Syrian fleet, and Furopa, with cargoes moved to Antigua, Montserrat, Jamaica, and other ports.
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Martintco
England
Weymouth
East India Service
West Indies
Matilda
Antigua
Archimedes
Howard
Hambro
Petersburgh
Hayward
Bermuda
Guadaloupe
Loula
Peterson
London
Cayenne
Jamaica
Lubben
Kronigfoore
Furopa
Scotland
Insurgents Surrender After Irish Rebellion Combats
Dispatches from May 27 28 1798 report heavy rebel losses at Carlow Monasterevan Tara Hill and Curragh of Kildare. Loyal troops under Campbell Lake and Dunpas claim decisive actions with many rebels dead or captured. Suspected surrender talks proceed in Naas as martial law spreads across the kingdom.
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Scobie
Lake
Dunshauchlin
Lord Fingal
Preston
Lower Kellsditto
Molloy
Tara Hill
M*‘Lean
Curragh
Kildare
Dunpas
Ireland
Ulster
Unusual Windsor Bullock Weighing 1280 Pounds Fattened on Great Park Farm
Thursday fortnight a Windsor butcher killed a Welsh breed bullock weighing 1280 pounds after over a year and a half of fattening at a Great Park Farm. The animal was markedly lean at the head and, when dead, resembled a cow though unwieldy and hard to rise after he was exhausted by the domesticated feed.
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Windsor
Great Park
Extraordinary Death Near the Black Prince Lambeth
An apparently well brought up young woman was found dead in a pond on waste ground near the Black Prince at Lambeth. She wore a white lawn gown a gypsy hat and a fashionable wig. The body was moved to the bone-house near Lambeth church for an inquest where a sister identified the deceased as Harrier Binson. The two sisters had been drinking at Vauxhall on Monday night and quarrelled on leaving. No signs of violence or valuable property were found. The jury returned an accidental death verdict. A hearse carried the body away at nine the next morning.
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Black Prince
Lambeth
Lambeth Church
Threast
Harrier Binson
Tottenham
Taorning
Common Council
Goonsevere
Alexander Leslie
Edinburgh
High Court of Justiciary
Lombard-street
Whitburn
Sunderland Masket
Ray
Admiralty
Holland
Wilsoy
Missionary Society
Denton
China
Otaheite
Tongataboo
Return to My Native Town Amid Troubled Times
Fragmented verse opens with nostalgia for home and a longing for childhood peace, then shifts to a stream of notices and reports from court and government writings. It recounts a city moral crackdown and changes in offices, a sedition trial in Edinburgh, distant maritime acts, and missionary progress with a Christian plea for peace and mercy.
Corn Exchange Market Prices for Grain and Starch
The market remains steady with few alterations since last report. Current grain prices show Starch A at 28 to 34s od, Fine Malt 3qs to 428 od, Barley 328 to 275 od, Rye 2550, Beans 83 od to grs0, Oats 185 to 27 od, Malt 96s to 405 od, Polands 195 to 363 od, and wine boilers 353 to 58s.
Prices of hops and market rates listed for assorted goods
A dense price list shows hop and sundry commodity rates per hundred weight and per cwt. including red clover white forage turnip rye grass mustard canary seed rape seed and hay. It also lists cattle at Smithfield Newgate Leadonhall and market prices for beef veal mutton pork lamb and hides with rough per stone and per pound figures and foreign clover and white seed prices.
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Smithfield
Cordial Balm of Gilead Adverts Publicized Across Towns
An 18th century promotional piece touts Cordial Balm of Gilead as a universal remedy for numerous ailments from indigestion to headaches and debility. It claims royal backing, large expenditures to disseminate the cure, and lists a wide network of agents and shop locations across Britain including Liverpool Aberdeen Birmingham and London.
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Gilead
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Cuarter
Dublin-Castle
Greg'Clack
P. M
Campbell
Dundas
Athy
Carlow
Monasterevan
Naas
Duneas
Dublin
Jeux
Uxbridge
Ras
Kent
St. Jamests
Hay
Whitechapee
Janes
Newgate and
Leadenhall
St. James’s Market
Clare Market
Whitechapel
Greenland
Goth
Lis House
M.D.F
Marybone
Liverpool
Soloman
Regalarius
Esa
Matthews
Aberdeen
Gor Innes
Mitchell Alnwick
Grahar Smith
Astby de la Zouch
Itch
Blandford
Shoot
Trezertha Bani
Cave
Bosworths Bry
Bradford
Nie
Bilson
Proud Barnstaple
Iron
Cee -Linstow
Keene
Sun “ Chestertud
Calow Chippenham
Coombs Cork
Davis
Eewards Colchester
Keymer Cirencester
Ith Coventry
Roinson
Myre
Luckman Cussiton
Spurway Chard
Gandry
Tucker Congleton
Dean Clithero
Sumner Dallington
Apperon Darnton
Heavysiies
Daventry
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