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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 07, 1776
Page
3
Reports describe British naval movements with transports and privateers ordered to the St Lawrence area. Letters recount Howe’s relief efforts and colonial reinforcements while fleets sail from Portsmouth and Plymouth. Local markets note hay and lamb prices as spring meetings and horse stakes unfold at Newmarket with detailed entries of horses and bets.
The document lists subscribers and horses in a multi year scheme with names such as Lord Grosvenor, Lord Midg don, Lord Boling ruke, Mr. Vernon, Mr. O Kelly, and Lord Clermont. It records subscription payments, horse names like King Pippin and Horizon, and sweepstakes results with detailed bids and forfeits. It also notes army commissions and promotions, and reports high water at London Bridge with tide timings for tomorrow and Saturday.
The House in committee passes the Scotch Allen bill and Weymouth town protection bill with no amendments. The Duke of St Albans bill reports after committee. A Scotland appeal Monro Ross versus Capt Lockhart Ross heard in part. Next meeting set for May 8 with loans, flax import bounty, coinage bill and more on agenda.
The House agreed to the supply report granting 1,040,000 to defray extra war charges and 13,973 for Hessian artillery costs 16,483 for a Waldeck regiment. Insolvent debtors bill amendments debated. dates adjusted. Corn bill read. bankrupts fraud prevention and coal mine refund bills moved to be reported Wednesday. Several financial bills agreed and engrossed. Hindennites deferred for lack of members.
The house committed bills for whale fishery and Anglesea copper mine, read the corn bill for Thursday, and postponed Hindon and Shaftsbury committees for three months. Writs for Hindon and Shaftsbury were approved amid divisions, and customs entries for North American colonies were ordered to be reported. The Lord Mayor’s charge against Lord North and the Lords of the Admiralty for licensing ships to America sparked strong criticism. The house adjourned after a long session past two in the morning.
Mr Burke notes that North denied false colouring of the London Gazette account though Bolton extraordinaries for 8000 men cost about a million and a half in a year. He asserts troops could not stay ten more days without rain of bananas and quails and claims they embarked for Halifax amid milky, bountiful hopes.
A bystander criticizes the budget and planned taxes to cover a two million loan and a 150 thousand pound premium. He argues taxes on stage coaches deeds newspapers stamps and dice hit necessities and press freedom, and condemns ministerial policies behind the costly public debt. The note recalls Dr Price and condemns war policy toward America.
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