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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 01, 1797
Page
2
A partial transcription shows a debate over a motion relating to the votes of persons personally interested. The motion to rescind was discussed but ultimately defeated as the meeting adjourned at twelve o'clock.
From Dublin reports three regiments arrive in town as the Freeholders press for minister dismissals and Catholic emancipation. In Norwich, Thelwall’s lecture sparks riot with soldiers clashing, pubs gutted, and armed detachments patrolling. A Whitstable boy is pressed for gunboat support during North Sea tensions. The Mary Hunter’s African voyage ends with cargo saved near St Croix.
Plymouth May 30 two principal mutineers of the Marines at Stonehouse Barracks were moved to the citadel at four in the morning under a strong escort to stand trial.
This morning from Hamoaze anchored in Cawland Bay His Majesty's ships Powerful a 74 gun ship commanded by Captain O B Drury Anson a 58 gun ship under Captain Durham Captain Byng lately of the Mercury a 28 gun ship is appointed to command the Galatea in the room of Captain Keas
Sailors aboard the fleet at the Nore and Sheerness refuse to meet Admiralty terms. Delegates demand full pardon and wage assurances, while the fleet forms two lines of battle and fires on nearby guns to deter a garrison. Letters pass between Buckner and the Delegates as tensions escalate.
Yesterday evening Lieutenant General Lake led a rapid pursuit to capture insurgents near Belfast. Siege actions yielded sixteen seized secrets, forged weapons, and arms caches in a glazier’s house. Militia and Yeomanry seized mortars, a swivel gun, muskets, coats bearing harp buttons, and a crown emblem. The owner fled as authorities burned the captured property and paraded through town.
Donaghadee reports that the privates who burned the Belfast Star printing office on Monday visited Alexander's house that evening, where Societies papers were found, and gutted that house and two others in a similar manner.
In Cork on Suns day twenty four men were seized at Armstrongs house. A Dublin delegate calling himself Williams now Dry is among the captured. Several Dublin delegates with books hidden in the wainscoting were discharged except five jailed with strong evidence. Maj General Coote reports a plot discovery. many involved arrested with arms and a confidential agent of Roger O Conner fled, brother to Arthur O Connor.
Henry Hamilton reports decades of painful goat attacks from England to Dominica, then to Antigua. After severe episodes and near death, he credits Spirsaury's Drops with rapid relief, aided by foot cataplasms and cleanliness. He travels to Antigua for continued benefit and endorses the medicine's nationwide sale.
Sunday morning tides show high water 44 minutes after 10 o clock. Afternoon rises 58 minutes after, Monday morning 28 minutes after. Evening 7 minutes after 1, morning 20 minutes after 12, afternoon 43 minutes after 3.
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