18 Mar 1805
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Newspaper
Morning Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 18, 1805
Page
1
The advertisement publicizes a spring lottery starting May 1 1805 with many capital prizes and a high total value. It outlines prize counts and values, notes ticket scarcity, and lists drawing days and offices where shares are sold under the Bank of... the Publishers claim responsibility for the lottery.
Unfurnished residence near ECKLEHAM with multiple ground floor rooms and stables to let. grounds include nine acres, three paddock close to river Mole. Also private sale of Bordesley Park Freehold Estate in Worcester area, four farms, timber, and village listings with viewing details and printed particulars at local inns and Pall Mall London.
Sale advertise a large Freehold estate comprising Chopwell Manor with 14 farms and 66 acres of woodland plus The Hage farm 184 arable and 98 woodland, and a working collier y water mill paper mill and rents about 19911 per year. Leases expire 1810 1818 and about 15 years left on the collier y. land tax and tythe mostly discharged. Plans and particulars available through agents in Newcastle London and Winchester Street London.
The Lords pass the Property Duty Salt Duty and Mutiny Bills and adjourn. In the Commons Mr Alexander reports Supply resolutions and Parliament consents to the three Bills. New Irish taxes stamps postage and malt bills are introduced. Several bills read first time and to be read second Monday. Committee on Marine Mutiny and Exchequer Bills proceed with readings. Discussions on Ireland coin export ban and Star Drawback continue.
The Morning Post notes tomorrow evening at King's Theatre the New Grand Schools Opera ERIPEHYLE with choruses and new scenery. Music by Bianchi for Mrs Billington, followed by OFFRANCE A L AMOUR and La Belle Laitiere ballet with music by Steibelt and D Egville. Additional works by Mortellari and Vivant Rex et Regina are announced as forthcoming.
This evening the Young Roscius repeats Hamlet with Queen and Ophelia supported by Mrs Powell and Mrs H Johnston. Two Strings to Your Bow appears. Tomorrow by command of Their Majesties The Honey Moon with Matrimony. The Young Roscius to perform Thursday and Saturday next.
The programme lists This Fuelling To Marry Or Now To Marry The Characters by Mr Munden Mr Krenthle Mr Cooke Mr Farker Me Brunton Mrs Glover Mrs Davenport Moss Shuttleworth With Out of Place Or The Lake of Lausanne Tomorrow The Blind Bargain Or Hear Him Out with Out of Place Or The Lake of Lansanne placed at Theatre Royal Covent Garden.
Letters from Bombay dated November 12 confirm the British Army defeated and dispersed Harak’s forces and pursue the enemy with expected swift submission. Messages cite dispatches from C Jones Murray and General Lord Lane detailing the widening advantage and planned reduction of remaining resistance. A September 8 note mentions the Amenein brig Woahaertoe reaching Mecca and a Sumatra West Coast event, with Commodore command referenced.
Letters from Backergunge dated August report the loss of the ship Candidate on July 28. Captain Fert, Mrs Fert, Mr Bart, Dr Axnerson, and ninety others died. ten Lascars and two crew saved in the jolly boat. The Haves and the armed ship Lord Castlereagh were involved. the town was burned and guns and a chest of dollars carried off by natives.
The report of the Dutch fleet sailing was a fabrication by an American. Captain Nunn described a convoy off Cape St Vincent on the 6th, with no confirmation at the Admiralty. The Hera reported the Brest fleet, but no ship was believed to have sailed by the 11th. Additional notes mention Lisbon, Portugal neutrality payments, and Spanish preparations near Gibraltar.
Reports from Capiz dated February 26 describe an English 80 gun ship attacked by local forces near Vivero as it attempted to land, with heavy casualties to its crew. The Oficial Journal notes no further convoy details. Dutch seamen join flotilla work at Dun kirk, and Vienna protests British cruising in the Mediterranean. Bonarvankre heads for Dijon en route to Italy, Verdun prisons shifted to Sarrhibre with unspecified reasons. no Stamburgh Mats arrive.
Reports claim General Winzenerone plans to sit out in Petersburgh late February with a letter to Emperor Alexander. It is said Prussia may mediate with England for peace with France while Austria and Lombardy talks are adjusted. Sweden allegedly rejects English subsidies as Lasnes reportedly commands a French force on the Spanish frontier toward Gibraltar.
The Gazette recounts the gallant action of His Majesty's ship Centarisa against Lingis' squadron in the Indian seas. It lauds the defense as a record worthy of Britain's naval annals and notes Admigel Rageirin's observance of the event.
The Eebo sailed from Trincomalee at the start of September and was totally lost near Gulaw. The first officer of the ship and Lielis, a ounc of His Majesty's Malay regiment, were drowned. His Majesty's ship Fax with Lord Mavencra aboard was expected to sail from Mocha for Bombay toward the end of August.
Reports from Downing Street and Caribbean stations describe a busy week with plans for Jamaica, ship seizures, and prisoner exchanges. The Dey of Acciers orders seizure of cov laden ships. a French account dispute emerges as a privateer action nets prizes near the Canaries.
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