Rebellion Debate and War Policy Sparks in Parliament
Extensive remarks condemn the Administration as indecisive in the American war, criticizing intelligence, use of foreign troops, and reliance on reconciliatory measures. The record notes divisions on a motion with late-night voting, plus related bills and petitions across the Commons and Lords, including canal, poor, and port matters and a Boston dispatch detailing a transport voyage and scarcity at sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Wilfreth de Pengance
House of Bourbon
Fox
Flours of Commons
John Wrotterly
Cowper
Charles Bunbury
James I
Forehoe
Ireland
Shafton
Shaftesbury
Newfoundland
Stoubridge Canal
House of Peers
Mr. Elwes
Clewer
Berks
Duke of Gloucester
House of Commons
Dorchester
Dorset
Brecknock
South Wales
Camberwell
Peckham
Cruger
House
New-York
Rebels Capture Ships and Burn Towns Reported
Dispatches describe rebel seizures of ordnance and coal ships with limited resistence, damaged rigging on British vessels, and a rebel camp flying the Union flag after the king's speech. Letters recount a Georgia engagement, later recalled as a rare notable action, with concerns of further bloodshed and militia shortages. Also noted are local election results, coroner elected, a fatal coachmen fight, and obituaries in Hull and Leeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Charles Town
P.S
Savannah
Georgia
Carolina
Chatham
Amazon
Jacobs
Carysford
America
Robert Fanshaw
Blackstakes
Chamberlain
Alderman Hopkins
Alderman Wilkes
Rnft
William Pryce
Redreth
County of Cornwall
Charles Wroughton
Williams
East Grinstead
Sussex
East India Company to Elect Directors at Leadenhall Street
The Court of Directors of the United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies will hold a General Court at Leadenhall Street on Saturday April 13 from 9 am to 8 pm to elect six directors for four years. Voting requires stock ownership in line with the act, with varying vote counts for 3000, 6000, and 10000 pounds stock, all in the holder’s own name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East-India House
United Company of Merchants of England
East-Indies
Leadenhall-street
Ftoc
Water at Lawson Bridge Tomorrow Schedule
Financial and market notices mix with railway timing references. Entries list bank stock prices, bonds, interest rates, and a sequence of times and events across morning and afternoon sessions. The fragmented text mentions India and South Sea securities, various 3 percent notes, and naval bills with scattered figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawson -Bridge
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London
Nantasket Road
SESS
India
Gofakazndia Bontts
Pr. Navy
Sc. Bilis
Rh Dife
Bank Long Ann
City of London
Benjamin Hopkins
Stephen Theodore Janffén
Bart
George
Arcandam
Acandam
Moses
J. F. Neveau
Baftile
Dauphin of
France
J. Bew
Paternofter-row
Garrick
Britannia
Socks
Bufkins
Care
Cooke
J. Cooke
Materia Medica Antiqua
John Rutty
Dublin
Wales
Rotterdam
C. Dilly
J. Rabson
New Bondestreet
J. Walter
Charing-cross
Edinburgh
Materia Medica
Crown &Va
Price
Thomas Jackson
Flest-macket
Jackson
Hooper
Bateman
Steurhton
Anderson
Squire
Ove Warehouse
Godfrey
Daffy
Turlington
Bostock
Ratclift
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