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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 03, 1797
Page
4
Parliament debated a bill to curb mutinous crews and limit communications with mutinying ships. Ministers pressed for firm action while critics warned of harsh penalties and broader harm. The bill passed the Commons with minor dissent and moved to the Lords.
The article describes royal celebrations with bells, illuminations, and a court at St James's, then shifts to the Nore mutiny where ships block the Thames, sailors plunder merchant vessels, and four mutineers are executed. Authorities plan swift action with volunteers, naval officers, and commissions, led by Admiral Lord Keith and Sir Thomas Pailsey.
Yesterday at the Old Bailey three prisoners stood trial with one con victed of a misdemeanor and two acquitted. The court then passed sentence on many defendants, naming death for twelve and transport, imprisonment, or whipping for others. Proceedings adjourned to Wednesday the seventh day of July.
Yesterday morning Clinch and Macklay were executed for the Fryer murder in Kington Fields. The scaffold floor failed, causing a fall into the apparatus area. Prayers, injuries, and dramatic escapes followed as surgeons treated lesions and the bodies were prepared for dissection. The prisoners denied guilt, and authorities blamed the pre adjustment of the machinery for the accident.
In honor of His Majesty's Birthday the Boxar Cracus in St George's Fields displayed a brilliant array of variegated lamps along the front of the Cicas, forming pyramids twenty to thirty feet high, complemented by a grand fireworks exhibition after the circus amusements.
Married Lancelot Shadwell Barrister of Lincoln to Isabella Cayley of Brompton Yorkshire dies at Bath Mrs Bell of Lamb's Conduit appears in the same notice detailing such unions and deaths with formal obituary phrasing
The report notes that yesterday and today were holidays, resulting in no trading activity and no buffer work at the stock exchange. It highlights a pause in operations due to holiday observance and indicates a return to normal activity afterward.
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