Grant urged to confirm East India Maritime Service pay scale
A Special Court of Directors summoned to fill the Governor General of India vacancy. The Morning News and Public Ledger argues for Mr. Curves Grant to become the next governor and to affirm the existing remuneration scale for the East India Company's Maritime Service, urging merit over money and unity between parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morning News and
Public Ledger
Governor Generalship
India
Curves Grant
Board of Control
Honourable
East India Company
Grant
East India Stock
Court of Directors
The Lord Chancellor and the News Taxes Debate
From the Manchester Advertiser and Leeds Times, the piece attacks the lord chancellor’s stance on newspaper taxation and press freedom. It contrasts radical and Tory views and warns that reducing press duties could threaten English liberty, while defending free debate and criticizing church rates as abuses of conscience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester Advertiser
Scotland
Mendax
Times Daily
Jeremy Diddler
Standard
True Sun
America
Phillippics
Hercules
English Quarterly Review
England
Abel Woes
Silk velvet theft at Bishopsgate shop leads to remand
John Thompson and John Spiers faced the Lord Mayor on charges under the 17th George III cap. 56 for receiving and pawning silk velvet stolen from Henry Stratford. Thompson admitted pawning it from Spiers who had commissioned him. Stratford absconded. Also noted a separate incident: baker Kidd accused of violent assault after drunken tirade against a street witness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spiers
Thompson
Stratford
Kidd
Coleman Street
Hobler
Mary Hofferman
Leadenhall Market
Wooldridge
L Division
Lambeth
Windmill
Baker
Collinson
Broady
Omas Hester
Saxton
Himi
Public-house row ends with fines and imprisonment
Mr Burrell fines three inmates 403 each or one month, while Mr White laments late hours at a public house. In St James's Park Charles Bryan is charged with uprooting shrubs. a constable testifies to the act and a man admits madness as his motive. He is discharged after an ally declines pressing the charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James's Park
Charles Bryan
Burrell
St. James’s Park
Dorrell
Mr. Burrell
New-street
Lyon-street
New Shent-road
Peckham
Woodsend
Marylebone
Henry M‘pherson
Cirencester-place
New-road
Mesars
Rawlinson and Shutt
Serepant Miller
Flower
Hatton-garden
Jeremiary Lyons
M‘pherson
Miller
Sors
Pentonville
Steinburge
Mobbs
Wilson
Middlesex Hospital
Mr. Flower
Henri
Alfred
Rawlinson
Robert Wilde
York-street
Battersea-felds
Owen
Battersea
John Clarke
John Smith
John Burn
Stracey
H 132
Penny's Farm
Sawbridgeworth
Hertfordshire
Bermondsey
Hertford
Benjamin West
Charles Dowden
Princes Street
Finsbury
Barker
Shoreditch
Twyford
Thames Office
John Reddy
Ballantine
Combe
James Forbes
Baldy
Forbes
Brook Street
Ratcliff
James’s Place
Thomas Candell
Richard Spooner
Francis Lloyd
Richard Gresley
Spurrier
William Guest
Turner
Guest
Mr. Guest
R. Spooner
Ms. Guest
Davis
Ludgate-hill
Police Gazette
Gazette
Joseph Falkner
Stafford-street
Edmonds
Gresley
Buckingham
Poor Man's Guardian
Falkner
Stamp-office
London
Spooner
Birmingham
Lord Lyndhurst
Watts
Livery-street
Falkener
J. Sporrier
Audacious assault and smuggling heard at magistrates court
The court heard a brutal assault claim with a suspect facing quarrel over a prior grudge and bids for bail to answer at Quarter Sessions. In a separate case John Moses, a Ratcliffe shopkeeper, pleaded guilty to smuggling six pounds of tobacco and faced a 100 fine or possible prison after initial refusal to pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldy
Forbes
Combe
Ballantine
J. E. Evans
Thames
Moses
Mr. Combe
Robberies of Licensed Victuallers and Related Trials
Indictments include Ann Smith for stealing a drinking vessel from a victualler in Duke Street, a verdict of guilty and fourteen days imprisonment. William Jones convicted of stealing a great coat from James Price at the Green Dragon Tavern, transported for seven years. Joseph Francis convicted of stealing two wing glasses from Edward Pooley at the George the Fourth, sentenced to one week after humane consideration. Royal George steamer compensation for running down delayed again pending next session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Smith
Joseph
Avith
Wm. Jones
James Price
Greem Dragon Tavern
Villiers-street
Asd
Joseph Francis
Edward Pooley
George the Fourth
Haggerstone
Pootey
Pooley
Royal George Steamer
Grant
Tors
Tees
Wheat and Grain Quotations and Local Notices from London
Wheat quotations and market notes show demand and short supply amid mixed activity. Notices of births and deaths accompany the price list, with regional references to Mecklenburgh and the Elbe, and local London mentions of Leamington Ludgate-street and Notting-hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doles
Anhalt
Steeweree
Mecklenburgh
Elbe
Mecklenburg
Alstein
Saecetseeee
Bahia
Leamington
Edmonstoss
Ludgate-street
Ryle
William Lobb
Milton-street
Dorset-square
M. Giuseppi
Notting-hill
J. M. Parnas
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Contemporary Press
Leeds Times
Wakefield
Batley
Church of England
Police Intelligence
Samuel Bolton
Gravel Lane
Southwark
Graveslane
Duke of Bedford
Southampton Street
Central Africa
Smith
Edge
98Th Regiment
Charles Bell
Burrow
Africa
Graaff, Reinet
South African Advertiser
Society For the Restoration OF Health
Harvey
Middlesex
Breadlow
Bucks
Pier Gresnar
Chiltern
Rackster
Williams
Schioa
H. Congreve
College-street
Chesses
J .G
T. Ashby
Derby
Haendrapers
Laeve
West
Thurrock
Middle
Robert Willimott
Earl O' Am
Capt
T. Lynn
Mac
Clapham-common
J. Adderley
William Jesse Cooper
Eaassee
Strand
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