23 May 1805
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Newspaper
Morning Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 23, 1805
Page
1
The fragment lists betting style odds or ticket prices with fractional values such as half, eighth, quarter, and sixteenth noted alongside numbers. It reads like a racing or betting odds table with price marks rather than a full narrative.
The notice promises access to temporary or covenant money and urges readers to use a reputable channel for financial relief. It lists various locations and terms, claiming daily availability of funds through a mediation or agent.
Notices invite clergymen to seek redeemable life annuities for rebuilding parsonages and other uses, with optics toward noble and landed applicants. At 54 Oxford Street and 97 Oxford Street, new linen goods, Indian textiles, and wines offered with low prices and door-delivered orders. Creditors in Delmedico and Walker bankrupt estates are urged to prove debts by specified deadlines or risk loss of claim, with legal offices listed for filing.
Amsterdam dispatches Paris rumors that a combined French and Spanish fleet seized English ships and prizes at Lisbon and confiscated English property, though no date or official confirmation is given. Lucien Bonaparte may be named Viceroy of Italy, with Rome as the Italian residence and Avignon as Papal See.
In the Lords the motion to address His Majesty over Judge Fox is debated with cautions on procedure and potential harms to the judge. Lords discuss parliamentary roles, admissible inquiries, and likely timetable as the session nears adjournment. Adjournment set for Friday with further procedures planned. The Grand Canal tolls in Ireland are also examined with a committee to study reductions and costs across canals and public funds reassessed.
Monsieur and Madame Deshayes announce a grand benefit at King's Theatre on May 23 presenting Il Basio di Proserpina a serious opera with new divertissement and a pantomimic ballet OSSTAN OU LES BARDES. Deshays dance a pas de deux and violin encore by Spagnoletti. Tickets available at Gerrard Street and Mr Kelly's Opera Saloon.
This evening The Wonder features Don Lopez Don Felix and the ensemble including Mrs Jordan Miss Tidswell Flora and Iris with The Soldier’s Return Master Betfy night. At Covent Garden Hamlet stars Master Betty in his final performance of the season with Ophelia Mrs Taylor and the double bill The Jew and the Doctor.
London dispatches describe letters from Barbados and Tortola confirming a French squadron with troops sailed from Martinique around March 22 bound for Saint Domingue. Reports from Exuma and Tortola note 25 sail at Havana and alerts that Jamaica convoy may have escaped. Government hopes for clearer news on Admiral Coen Rane’s squadron and Rochefort’s return with prizes.
The Jamaica trade leaders held a meeting at the London Lavern and agreed to write to Lord Camdex seeking government updates on the island’s defence readiness. They awaited a reply after a dispatch from General Nobest indicated a French squadron’s arrival in the West Indies and that precautions were taken. Lord Newsom reportedly had no intelligence to share with the Lords of the Admiralty.
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