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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 06, 1787
Page
2
Fragmented OCR reports a House debate over a treaty payment and landgrave alliance, with exchanges on French aid to Holland, credibility of documents, and timing of parliamentary action. It notes Mr Fox and Mr Jolliffe arguments about expediency and constitutional proprieties.
A dated London bulletin reports ministerial moves, bishops to be confirmed, and rapid changes in the Lords succession amid deaths. It notes the Yorke, Bristol, and Lincoln episcopal shifts, cabinet talks, and a focus on naval and army expenditures. It also covers a Jamaica bound ship loss, a police housebreaking case in Pye Street, and ongoing parliamentary opinions on the slave trade.
A man confessed to a brutal murder of a town woman. He strangled then decapitated her after locking her in a room. The suspect, identified as a visitor from Down, Lincolnshire, was taken before a Justice of the Peace and remanded. Local market prices and notices follow.
The debate noted accommodation over hostility and doubt about the paper's production. No specific reason or proof of impropriety was given, yet the mover persisted with the address motion. The question was put and the motion carried without a division.
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