Lord Kenyor Attends Lords Session Adjourns To Monday
Lord Kenyor attended for the Lord Chancellor and after reviewing the bills on the table, the session adjourned to Monday.
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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 06, 1797
Page
4
Lord Kenyor attended for the Lord Chancellor and after reviewing the bills on the table, the session adjourned to Monday.
The session debated prohibiting excise and customs officers from voting, examined insolvent debtor and counterfeit coin bills, and discussed militia allowances. Pitt proposed tax adjustments on male servants, horses, and agriculture to cover deficits, with resolutions carried. An illegal oaths bill was introduced to clarify punishment, and the General Inclosure Bill passed after further orders.
The House of Commons proceeds with a 2000001 subsidy to the Queen of Portugal to secure an ally against Spain. Editorials urge readiness for war to ensure a safe peace, while notes mention Dublin politics, Bank Loyalty Loan payments, and Pitt's Downing Street interview. Letters from Boston and Philadelphia discuss U.S. policy and commissions to Paris to settle France‑America misunderstandings.
Reports detail a French government order to remove seals from property of a Paris associate amid injunctions against possession. naval news recounts Captain White's Berwick Merchant captured by a 74 gun Jason. retaken by two British ships with 16 passengers unharmed. The Beewick Merchant reached Shields with cargo valued at 12,000 pounds. Lieutenant St. Jean warned of three more privateers ready at Dunkirk.
The Court Martial at Spithead continues the trial of James Hayes James O Neil Robert Gray and Thomas Needs after a gale kept the panel aboard the Tribune. Woolley and Simpson were found guilty of prevarication and perjury with sentences of three months solitary confinement and one month respectively. Defence by Hayes ends as others begin their cases with testimonies praising conduct prior to the mutiny. A new prize, a Spanish polacre packet captured by Serpent, arrives from Africa with dispatches amid continued naval activity.
An order from the Admiralty ratifies severe sentences for mutineers Lee Coffy Brandan and M Ginnis at Stonehouse citadel. Additional dispatches describe captures from ships Pheeton Amphion and Industry, plus mutiny actions aboard Saturn and planned trial aboard Cambridge with Lord Keith presiding.
The piece records April to July weather with dryness and warmth early then wet cold later, spoiling hay and causing floods in places. It notes Captain Eaton buried at St. Ann’s parish, four mourners in a coach. a boat from an armed slip capsized off Tynemouth with all hands lost save two. Dawes master of the Red Lion died in Pennington Street. Ward, a coal-factor, died at the Coal Exchange. St Mary Whitechapel altar plate stolen.
Markets report a tolerably supplied grain market on Friday June 7 with brisk sales and a generally modest advance in prices noted by observers.
Prices of stocks this day show Tavelve e clack s percent and various annuities. Confals at 4 percent, 64 1 8, 3 percent. Confals 54 .5 8ths, 3 percent. Reduced 53 1 8th. Long annuities 143 4ths. Short annuities ditto Imperial 3 percent 50 1 4th. Imperial 7 percent ann. 10 5 36 the India Stock and South Sea Stock both closed.
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