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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 10, 1797
Page
4
A fragmentary record shows Mc Manafield for the Respondent and Mr peated for the Appellants as the Scots and York Buildings Company are mentioned with Alesather Kenzie. The readable text indicates a hearing context involving legal representation and appellants.
In the House of Commons Mr D Ryder reported the committee findings on the Flintshire election. Sir Thomas Moyston should not have been returned and John Lloyd Esq should have been returned. The sheriff's return was deemed not frivolous. The Clerk of the Crown was ordered to amend the return. The London Bread Office Bill passed committee. Mr Journe r will seek leave to amend the Game Laws related to the partridge shooting start date from September 15 to an earlier date. Mr D P Coxe moved postponement of the Corporation Jurisdiction Bill and related committee work. Adjourned.
Postscript to Paris Papers notes no material fleet changes at the Nore amid ongoing mutiny. Delegates split Royalists vs Republicans, water scarcity, and suspicions of compromise with French ports. Two ships attempt escape as Monmouth signals summon delegates. long confusion follows with topsails shown and distrust growing.
Reports state Captain Cobb arrived with Admiralty dispatches demanding unconditional surrender of militiaman crews. Red flags fly at the Nore as loyal sailors prepare to enter harbour, while a failed plan to blow up the Repulse is foiled and suspects are detained.
Yesterday fourteen ringleaders of the late mutiny were put ashore from the Leopard at the crew’s request and this morning twenty one more were taken out for attempting to raise a second mutiny. All are in safe custody at Tilbury Fort.
A young man mocked the King during a Sunday terrace walk and refused to remove his hat. He was taken to the guard-house, his insanity noted, and custody ordered. Trinity House celebrated with Pitt as Master and Portland as Elder Brother. Duncan reports Texel maneuvers and the Dromedary’s perilous voyage with 40,000 pounds in specie aboard. Lieutenant Delance recovering from wounds. Duke of Wirtemberg investment remains in 3 per cent stock. Madras letters hint at war preparations as Tippoo advances north with a large army.
Paris reports a political upheaval with Verona fined five million and required to deliver public and private plates to French commissioners. L Eclair notes Pitt’s dismissal and links it to a broader revolutionary drama in Britain, reflecting on mob sentiment and future upheaval.
Letters from Nantes report the frigates Concorde and Nereide and the Bergere corvette sail from Basque Road under Captain Papin on an expedition whose aim is unknown. Pay for sailors remains unpaid while army pay is kept current. A Danish, Neapolitan, and Ottoman minister presentation to the Directory is noted as well as ongoing peace negotiations involving Britain and France with preliminary articles discussed.
On a pre-dawn Saturday and Monday morning Colonel Ogle led a party of the Mid- Lothian Fencible Cavalry under Lord Ancram. They seized many United Irishmen fire-arms and pikes hidden in homes. Some houses burned, many prisoners were taken, ringleaders identified, and hundreds pledged allegiance to the magistrate. Twenty-two United Irishmen have been jailed for high treason.
In Enniskillen on June 2 a corporal and six privates escorting a prisoner of a United Irishman faction seized 21 stand of arms and a pistols case from an island on Lough Erne. The arms, recently taken from Captain Irvine of Rockfeld's Yeomanry, were turned over to Captain Archdall.
A man arrived in Sligo on Tuesday night claiming two thousand deluded miscreants were marching on the town and barracks. Drums beat to arms and a force of nine hundred militia yeomanry and locals gathered, guarding until four in the morning in heavy rain. Captain Wynn's Cavalry scoured the area but found no trace of the invaders. the informer was jailed for giving a false alarm.
John Hulme a Horflydown waterman and former Delegate of the In flexible stands condemned for treason felony and piracy. John Maclaurin a seaman to the Director is charged with aiding Hulme. Both are sent to Maidstone gaol.
The fragment notes ships from Hull and Haenbee with names Metcalf Dimtah Elizabeth Foster and the Friends Mitchell of Montrose taken in the North Seas and carried to Norway in a late 18th or early 19th century maritime notice.
Lord Bridport's fleet remains off the coast standing up Channel 1 for Forbay to be resupplied. Ear Wycombe, an East India Company ship outward bound, refits after damage from a tugging incident with another fleet vessel. Three cartel ships carrying 800 English prisoners arrive from Brest landing near Devon and Cornwall. Aimable Celeste arrives with only crew aboard. One line of battleship returns to port as Cavaland Bay fleet signals. A large Danish ship from Portsmouth arrives with about 300 Spanish prisoners bound for Cadiz.
Accounts from Lord Bridport's fleet state conditions are very happy and comfortable. The crew of the Bienfaisant punished their boatswain on shore for bad behaviour while everything else remains quiet. The Haffar was lately lost. On the French coast, twelve sail of the line plus five nearing readiness arrived at Plymouth yesterday with Brett absent.
This morning three line of battle ships, one frigate, and a brig failed to join Admiral Bauscan's fleet amid rising tensions at sea. The absence shifts naval balance as authorities assess reasons for the delay and potential impact on upcoming maneuvers.
In London the public officer noted two soldiers from the Regiment of Scotch Fencibles, Innis and Brothers, brought in on charges of forcing a French prisoner to be shot aboard the Marquis of Carmarthen transport while ferrying about 170 French captives from Yarmouth to Lyon. A fellow crew member was killed. Innis pressed for no trial, but the Commissary and others intervened. The men were committed for further examination. The day also reported a high cattle supply at Smithfield market and a disturbing incident of a man offering his wife for sale, tied to a railing before spectators, to be bought for twenty pounds in bad halfpence, with the couple returning home afterward. Additional local barbarities included lambs' tongues being cut from heads, eyes removed, and horns broken by assailants near Ipswich.
Last night at Jones's Royal Circus in St George's Fields the new grand pantomime Niobe’s Story was performed for the first time. The display features beautiful scenery a finely told tale and pantomime tricks surpassing those seen since Rich. The apothecary shop change the fedax chair transformations and the finale promise a most delightful entertainment.
Prices of stocks for the day include bank shares and annuities with percentages noted. Confols at 3 percent and 52 7-8 appear, with references to reductions to 0.5 percent and Omnium related notes.
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