Rochester trial house completed after 200 years privilege
From Rochester on Saturday last the new Tesfions house built for trial of criminals was entirely enclosed and will soon be finished. The corporation and inhabitants express satisfaction at regaining a privilege held for over two centuries. Also notes a Dover marriage of Captain Benjamin Westfeld to Miss Westfeld, and a burglary at Elias Worthington's house.
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Rochester
Tesfions- House
Énsoing
Dover
Benjamin
7Th Regiment ‘of Foot
Miss Westfeld
Robert Westfeld
Elias Worthington
York
John Early
Thomas Dilling
Doncaster
Tyburn
Ardleywood
Stoke
Tingwick
Stone Woods
Waddoncace
Thenre
Whittlebury-forest
Aynhoe Earths
Kirthington-park
Middleton Park
George Alehouse
Whitechapel
New Prison
Phillips
Carter
Deptford
St. George’s Church
Hanover Square
Nathaniel Baily
Abingdon
Miss Lamack
Clapham
Surry
Clapham Church
William Dawson
West Ham
Miss Mills
Mills
Mark-lane
Samuel Castleton
Queen-street
Grosvenor-square
Miss Phelps
Parliament-street
Vessels Sailed and Passed Off in Western Waters
Wind shifted to the west yesterday as the British King East-Indiaman departed for India with the Ocean, Ewing bound for Virginia, Fanny Ellis for Trieste, and Cornelia Noble for Amsterdam. Swift Lante Gravesend sailed for the river. Catherine Dio Three Brothers Harmes from Groningen and Lovely Mary M Cartney from Hamburgh were sighted sailing by.
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Drag
Mace
India
Ewing
Virginia
Fanny
Ellis
Trieste
Cornelia, Noble
Amsterdam
Swift
Lante
Gravesend
Marc
Catherine
Dio
Harmes
Groningen
Mary
M*cartney
Hamburgh
London City Address For His Majesty And Public Bills
London news records the Sheriffs and City Remembrancer awaiting the King's pleasure to receive the City Address, Remembrance, and Petition. It notes bills on state sales abuses, turnip thefts, a plate glass manufactory, and prisoner accommodations at the King’s Bench, with debates in the House. Also reports East India stock affairs, a Bristol theatre patent, and Bank of England dividends.
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Watkin Lewes
St. James’s
Morton
King’s Bench
Lord North
Cornwal
Dyson
Pulteney
Do«deswell
R. Whitworth
William Dolben
House of Commons
Bristol
Wenesday
Leadenhall-figeet
Gregory
Wheeler
Fitzgerald
Creighton
Chargue
George Colebroke
Proprietary
General Court
London
Gov. Johnstone
East-India
Alderman Kirkman
Lord Bellamont
Earl of
Jersey
Linen trade decline prompts government inquiry motion
Lord Frederick Campbell addressed the House about a sharp rise and then a decline in linen production in Britain Ireland and Scotland since 1770 driven by foreign importation and emigration to America He moved to appoint a committee to investigate causes and report remedies General Conway supported the motion while Mr Prescot warned against harming woollen exports Lord North urged delaying until broader considerations and a committee was formed with Irish and Scottish MPs to gather papers and records
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Frederick Campbell
Great Britain
Ireland
Scotland
England
America
Conway
Prescot
Germany
Prussia
Silesia
Lord North Rose
Pulteney
Prusha
Lord North
Somersetshire Assizes Change of Venue to Wells
Fever and malignant cases prevail at Taunton. Western Circuit judges will open commissions on Saturday the 27th instant and adjourn to Wells, where the Affizes will be held this time. Public notice is ordered for jurymen witnesses and others with business at the next assizes for the county of Somerset.
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Somersetshire
Taunton
Wells
Couny
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