Public rebuke of Lord Fitzwilliam over finances and governance
The speaker denounces the administration for duplicity and embezzlement, accusing the lord deputy of disguising the revenue shortfall and misusing grants for charitable and court purposes. He demands accountability, questions promises of strict economy, and warns of scandal if Parliament remains misled, urging reform in Dublin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parlia Ment
George
Court
Ord Bute
Ministry of England
Hata Fmey
House of Commons
Elferemdin
Dublin
Observer slander claim targets Pall Mall MP
A correspondent rebukes the London Evening Post for an anonymous paragraph signed Observator alleging a Pall Mall MP wrote for Reputus. The writer asserts the MP did not author the piece or contribute to the press and warns Observator to speak with care, citing possible repercussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Observator
Pall Mall
Odserwator
Reputus
Talion
Meeting on Nene river decay at Wisbech Inn
Notice announces a joint meeting of the North Level Commissioners and related parties at the Rose and Crown Inn Wisbech Saint Peters Isle of Ely Cambridge to consider appointing improvements to the River Nene from Peterborough to its sea outfall. Also a session of Oyer and Terminer will be held at Justice Hall Old Bailey on November 7 for trials of offences on the High Seas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nene
Peterborough
Rose and Crown Inn
Wisbech
Saint Peter’s
Isle of Ely
County of
Cambridge
Admiralty Office
High Seas
Admiralty of England
Justice Hall
Old Bailey
Php
Spephens
Debates in Peasant Order and Amherst Arrival
Postscript reports from Holland and Lifton with brief items: a peasant order split over a member deemed incapable of service and a motion against Sieur Lars Furbiorhffon failed as members withdrew. Amherst brothers arrive in Lifton, while Vienna notes the Ottoman camp near the Danube, ill soldiers and possible peace resolution prevailing over decisive action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Lifton
Col. Amherst
Jeffery Amherst
Vienna
Danube
London letters throng with political scandal and ship news
A private Dublin letter claims Parliament in Ireland is corrupt and government tax needs may reach 300,000 this year, while the English crown is accused of lavish patronage. Reports from Rochester and Portsmouth recount civic honors, political defiance, a fatal fire threat to public works, naval arrivals and departures, and local marriages and deaths. Prices of stocks and maritime notices fill the remainder of the page.
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Ireland
Dublin
Commons
England
Europe
Robert Walpole
Gravesend
London
Middlesex
Reynolds
Stavely
Webb
Falcon Tavern
Wade
Rochester
Hood
Guinea
Wight
Stokes Bay
Yalding
Mr. Crook
Spring Gardens
Furbar
Henry Lambert
Catherine Parker
Sackville Street
Henry Forbes
West Indies
Edinburgh
Aberdeen
Earl of Buchan
Fraser
Walliam Fraser
Fraserfield
George Murdoch
Glasgow
Port Glasgow
Greenock
Newcatie
Shields
Ely
Cambridgeshire
Henry Morley
Commission of the Peace
Selim
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The
London Evening’ Pvt
Edellenty George
Lord Fiscount Foumfend
Ar Petiruaet
Governor Reland
London Evening Post
Vera X
White Hart
Bagshot
Surry
Chistmas
P. A. Gray
Law
Leicester-fields
N.B
the Inn
New Cross Turnpike
Kent
Bermond Fey-Streets
Southwa K
Hartford
Farnborough-Wet
Stroud Green
Blackheath
Messrs. John « Champion
Eorge Fleming
Newgate
Tuohlay
Madegon
Banbury
Oxford
Postscript
Conservancy
Hulkes
Calcraft
Crown Tavern
Mr. Calcraft
Eusebius
Conyers
Middleton
India
Prem
Navy
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