Lords House May 8 First Reading Bills Read
House of Lords notes May 8 as a Monday with several Bills received from the Commons and read a first time. The session adjourned after the brief formalities.
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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 06, 1797
Page
4
Debate on Admiralty pay and petitions in the House
The House discussed the Additional Stamp Duty and Attornies Regulating Bills while reading first the Cambrick and French Lawns Bill. Petitions from ship builders and related trades were presented urging reconsideration of a clause in a Navigation Act related measure. Mr Pitt and others urged caution and information before approving increased seamen pay, and the Resolutions granting funds were eventually agreed to after debate.
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Dundas
West Indies
Nova Scotia
Pitt
Committee of Supply
Walpole
Vterney
Thames
East India Company
Ryder
Tierney
India
Edward Hughes
Fox
London
Mart-makers
Sawyers
Sheridan
Admiralty
Pity
Peace Preliminaries Reported Between France and Emperor
The Directory reports preliminaries of peace with the Emperor, including cession of Belgium and Lombardy, recognition of French limits, and a planned Berne congress. A separate extract describes a controversial incident aboard the London and Marlborough involving mutiny references and conflicting accounts. Royal duties and port defense news follow, with letters and government figures engaged in crisis consultations.
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Mefface
France
Messace
Buonaparte
Italy
Sole
Oficer
Germany
Belgium
Lombardy
Council of Five Hundred
Jean de Bry
Europe
Pastoret
Darenderis
Republiain Francaise
Republic of
Liege
French Republic
Luxembourg
Meuse
Venice
Bologna
Ferrara
Berne
Mantua
Murders and Robberies At Waltham Abbey and White Conduit
In one incident at the Three Companies public-house in Waltham Abbey three men forced entry with a pistol and killed landlady Mrs Gray after a struggle for money. A bystander was wounded as the assailants fled without success. On Sunday evening a Mr Fry of Southampton Buildings Holborn was shot in a field near White Conduit House by three footpads and robbed of his watch and money. he died soon after as Bow Street patrols arrived. A sword-stuck stick lay near him.
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Waltham Abbey
Fry
Southampton
Holborn
White Conduit-house
Patréle
Fresh mutiny reported aboard ships at Portsmouth
Postscript notes Paris papers arrive to the 4th inft inclusive and bring preliminary peace terms between the Emperor and the French Republic. The day’s major item concerns a new mutiny or insurrection on board the fleet at Portsmouth with numerous letters arriving, though accounts vary and we avoid sensationalism.
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Paris
Portsmouth
RUPTURE WITH PORTUGAL OVER Peace Conditions
May 2 reports the Chevalier d Aranjo ambassador to Portugal forced to leave Paris after refusing to sign peace terms. Claimed conditions include a thirty million ad rate, cession of part of Brazil to Spain, and closing all Portuguese ports to England. Venetian envoy ordered to quit Paris within 24 hours per newspapers.
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Chevalier d’Aranjo
Portugal
Paris
Lisbon
Brasil
Spain
England
Francare
Directory
L’ Amis Des
Mutiny at Portsmouth Signals Fleet Action Looms
Admiral Lord Bridport receives Portsmouth letters noting Brest fleet inouter harbour preparing to sail and some reports say they are at sea in force. He immediately signals the fleet to weigh and pursue the enemy.
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St. Helen's
London
Colpoys
Marlborough
Nichols
Spithead
Admiralty
Admiral Colpoy
St. Helen’s
Lord Bridport
Spithee
Portsmouth
Earl Spencer
Pitt
Dundas
Wimbledon
Wyndham
Lord Spencer
Lord Grenville
Houses of Lords and Commons
Brest
Prices of Stocks at Twelve o' Chek Bank Stock 5 percent
Stock prices listed with varied percent yields including Bank, Confors, Confols, Reduced, Imperial and related figures. The snippet notes per cent figures such as 4 per cent and 3 per cent with fractions, plus long and short annotations on specific stock names.
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House of Lords
House Or Commons
B. Edwards
Fox Rose
Powell
John Orde
Plymouth
Mr. Evans
Peter Parker
Jervis
Covent Garden
Menoeks
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