Prolonged Protestant Signatures and Irish Question Moves
Above 50,000 have signed the Protestant Association. The drive to widen the dispute from commerce to constitution in Ireland is moving toward broad support across armed societies, with expectations of alignment across the kingdom. Record of Bombay finances shows losses, North proposes a Trade Board, ships reach harbor, pay to officers due, and prison trials and notable marriages and deaths are recorded.
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Protestant Association
Ireland
Lords hear Scotch appeal and pass road bills
The House of Lords Friday finished hearing Council on the Scotch appeal Orme versus Leslie and affirmed the Decree. It reported Tetbury Road bill without amendments, passed the Kelso two penny Scots bill, and committed the Grantham and Chapel Bar Road bills.
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Orme
Leslie
Tetbury Road
Grantham
Chapel Bar Road
House of Commons Advances Marine Regulation Bills
The House, in a Committee, passed the bill for better regulating marines when on shore with amendments Read a second time and committed the Navy desertion bill A Committee considered duties on import of pot and pearl ash proposing a new duty of 2s per hundredweight Ordered that militia pay and clothing expenses be funded from the land tax for 1780.
Landed Gentlemen taxed far more than tenant
To the Printer of the London Evening Post, sIkR, the epanel of Thursday last is plain and just. It proves the deplorable situation of the Land holder as estates costing much yield little income while tenants pay far less per year. The critique denounces the heavy taxes and harsh treatment of landed gentlemen.
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London Evening Post
Sikr
Call for stockholder tax share to ease land burthen
A 1780 letter urges landed gentry to convene parish meetings and petition Parliament demanding that stockholders bear a fair portion of land tax. It warns of land value decline and poor market conditions for produce, calling for equitable distribution of governmental burdens. The writer signs as a humble servant on February 25, 1780.
Request for amendment of the Qualification Act 33d George II
A letter from John Hint of Coventry, dated December 20, 1779, appeals to the House of Commons cherished by patriotic members. He urges an amendment to the Qualification Act, claiming widespread public desire for reform across Middlesex and other counties, England and Wales, and notes the wife’s letter as a sufficient word.
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Middlesex
England
Wales
E&t
George
John Hint
Question on dissolving sinecure offices in church and state
A question submitted to the petitioners asks whether all sinecure places in the Church and in the State should be dissolved by selling the reversions and applying the proceeds to public uses. The proposal seeks funding for public needs from the sale.
Speech on restricting MPs contracts with government during bid process
Sir Philip Jennings Cuerke argues in the House for a bill to ban MPs from holding government contracts unless awarded by public bidding. He warns of growing ministerial influence through placemen, cites past improvident contracts, and notes related foreign and domestic concerns including North American commissaries and a fallen house in Houndsditch.
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Philip Jennings Cuerke
House of Commons
England
Questioning parliamentary power and independence of judges
A speaker condemns the current Parliament for appointing officials in defiance of constitutional limits. He argues the judiciary is biased, liberty and property are endangered, and a truly free constitution cannot exist if restraints remain dependent. He urges the House to act justly for the public good.
Prisoner Langara Wounded Captain at Gibraltar
Reports from Madrid dated February 1 say Commodore Don John de Langara lies prisoner at Gibraltar with his ship reduced to a wreck. He suffered three wounds, including a head wound, and was unable to command though English officers praised his bravery. Several English ships were disabled near Puntalana, while Don Gatton’s arrival is anticipated to coordinate with Spanish forces. Barcelo shelters behind Algesiras batteries as Don Antonio rallys on.
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Madrid
Laf
St. Roch
Don John de Langara
Gibraltar
Puntamala
Don Gatton
Galicia
Cadiz
Don Antonio Barcelo
Pidgeons
Algesiras
Ship Mooring Disaster Near Rotherhithe Weather Toll
A morning storm drove a tier of ships from moorings below Rotherhithe causing collisions and damage to several vessels while some small craft were sunk. Earlier a woman was found dead in Poultry Passage likely due to cold weather. her body was taken to St Mildred's and a jury will examine it. William Miller Esg of Walkinshaw died at his Renfrewshire home on the 17th instant.
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Coldstream
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New York
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Portmouth
Namur
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Salamander
Basilisk
Whitehall
Great Britain
Old Bailey
Christopher Burrows
John Burden
Sarah Gifford
Green Park
St. James’s
St. Margaret’s Hill
Sir Joseph Mawbey
Bart
Reid
Smith
Magdalen
St. George’s Fields
Southwark
Roth
William Temple
Bishopstrow
Gaisford
Thomas Gaisford
Bittam
Wilts
Alexander King
Fenchurch-street
Noble
Poultry
Nathaniel Milward
Litchfield Street
Jewin Street
Evans
Blancher
Mercer
Portland Chapel
James Reynolds
Pall Mall
Hubert
Yetterday
Holloway
Thomas Hughes
Rotherhithe
Poultry Passage
St. Mildred’s Church
Renfrewshire
Scotland
William Miller
Walkinshaw
Ship News Deal and Gravesend Report Feb 25 18th Century
Wind W S W. The Aurora arrived and sailed for the river from St Kitts. Gravesend lists multiple ships passing by from Cork Dublin Limerick Newry and New York with names including John and Sarah Marquis of Granby Anna Maria Charming Nancy and Diligence among others.
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la Flourdes
Biondo
Zant
Nancy
Williams
Walbank
Betsey
Smith
Elizabeth
Kelly
Recovery
Wethered
Virtue
Potts
Naefian
Terry
Success
Dunn
Lowther
Seehouse
Hine
Dublin
Ether
Moody
Charming Mary
Holloway
Priscilla
Daverfn
Newry
Camberwell
Broie
New York
Drapery
Cavan
Henderson
Belfatt
Stock Prices and Bank Annuities Details
Daily stock values and bank annuity rates are listed with multiple years and percentages. Items include Bank of England funds like 3 per cent and long annuities, South Sea Stock, India Bonds, and various government securities with quoted prices and fractions.
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Indra
India
South Sea
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