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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 17, 1774
Page
1
The Feb 17 Commons record notes motions on linen and woollen trade, a committee inquiry into trades, and debates over Mr Horne’s alleged contempt. Additional items include Irish bill heads, private notices, crime reports, ship news, and parish marriages and deaths.
On a February 11 incident in The Hague two servants of Mr Juel, the Danish minister, drank heavily and misbehaved in the street, harassing a young married woman linked to Sir Joseph Yorke’s household. They fled but were pursued. complaints to the Court of Justice of Holland followed, with differing claims of insult and aggression.
A late 18th or early 19th century notice lists ships sailing to Jamaica Cadiz Georgia Senegal Poole and arriving at ports including Africa Gosport New York London Philadelphia Oporto St Kitts Barbados Cork Falmouth Dublin and Liverpool. The compiled item names ships and destinations, with several vessels returning from London and from North American and European ports.
London Lords debated literary property with judges giving mixed views on the common law right of authors. Willes and Aston supported it, Perrott Adams and Gould largely opposed or narrowed scope, and the hearing postponed to Monday. Bills on naval regulation and corn export were read first time.
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