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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 30, 1797
Page
4
In a brief session the Lords only read the Bills listed on the Table before adjourning to Monday. No other business was conducted as their Lordships concluded the proceedings.
Members discuss suspending export bans and extending grain exemptions with Drayton on barley. Sheridan presses for papers on Emperor advances, while Pitt Grey and Fox clash over Bank clauses and cash deposits under continuing wartime restrictions.
Reports from the era describe ongoing embargoes in all French ports aimed at aiding armed preparations, with Brest to host a light observation squadron until Lord Bridport can sail again. News from India notes tranquillity, while treaties shift power, including Sardinia and the French, and prices rise in Constantinople amid currency shortages.
The Guildhall intelligence reports a council debate on Blackfriars Bridge repairs, objections to Albom Mills warehouses, and sending a report to the Lords of the Treasury. A loan plan on annuities, City Lands inquiry, militia funding, and plans to prosecute for artillery ground use are noted with committee accounts and motions.
Plymouth March 29 news lists St Fiorenzo of 40 guns under Sir H B Neale sailing eastward and Unicorn of 32 guns under Captain Young heading to Cork with a convoy of merchantmen. Also Weous frigate sails to Portsmouth and La Sufffante on a cruise. Unité and La Nymph come in to refit. Apollo 36 guns waits to join Sir Roger Curtis’s squadron with Aaron Artois La Pomone and Thames frigates remaining in the Sound.
Portsmouth reports the Grand Fleet under Lord Bridport arriving, with fourteen sail of the line, two frigates and a fire-ship. The North insurgents are not Roman Catholic, aside from a few deceived members. Jacobin and Roméo Gathiblics of Ireland are cited as pushing hopes of eventual emancipation, while penal statutes near collapse. A city visitor notes London meat prices rising, with pork and veal markets showing steep rates.
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