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Newspaper
Leeds Intelligencer
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 06, 1786
Page
5
London reports negotiators for peace between Algierines and Americans return without success. Other items note tax plans, parliamentary charges against Hastings, and various shipping, weather, and social events in Britain and abroad.
A garbled excerpt shows various bond and stock quotes including Bank Stock at 244 and Three per Cent Red at 72. Prices and vouchers for India stocks, Navy Bills, and Four Cent Conuls appear with inconsistent spellings. The text mirrors a ledger-like market page with miscellaneous figures and place names obscured by OCR.
On Trinity Sunday in Leeds sermons and collections will aid the Fur CARIT SCHOOL with a local donor adding five guineas. Reports note York Castle and Manchester marriages, ship arrivals at Liverpool, and a Royal Fusiliers march through town en route to Fort George. A ball of crime includes burglaries and a pistol robbery near Chetter Street, with clergy deaths and widowhood mentioned in brief notices.
A fragment notes the death of a woman fourteen days after delivering her sixth child, with seven living offspring and a newborn infant. It also reports the death of Mrs Cholmondoley at Bristol Hotwells, linked to Thomas Cholmondoley of Vale-Royal, and the passing of Thomas Newell of Holbeach at 106, who remained lucid and left two sons.
Maug Lane May 29 report shows oats softening but not cheaper. Wheat price drops about a shilling per quarter amid ongoing export expectations. 3392 quarters sold at average 35s 6d per quarter. Barley and other grains largely steady with modest shifts in prices for oats, beans, rivets and related goods.
A list of multiple defendants in the Saman teens case appears in a London court record. Names include Tabitha Smith Eliz England Elin Charlesworth Kerine Johnson Mary Pickles and many others. Each facing penalties from 20s to 40s for producing false or short yarns and related offenses with some remanded to Wakefield House of Correction.
Fragmented OCR item lists numerous names and places such as Hull, Geneva, Amsterdam, Taeton, Libau, and Yarmouth. The text reads like a shipping or trade register with woollen goods and iron mentioned, but many words are garbled, yielding no clear event, date, or outcome.
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