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Newspaper

Weekly Register

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 25, 1799

Page

4

Court Admits Complex Pirate Theatrics In Settlement Dispute

The document details a negotiator's demand for a draft on profits from a four year venture and a dramatic pledge to transfer dominion over a son and mythic figures. The speaker speaks of tridents sea gods and a spring circuit by sea while referencing Scylla and Charybdis and dramatic legal conveyances. Several other causes were postponed as parties were ready and fittings concluded.

Ythall Sunderland Tyne Proteus Scylla Charybdis Bhail

Proposals on Bank Charter Renewal and City Notices

London reports detail the Court of Proprietors debating Minister proposals to renew the Bank charter for twenty one years with a 4,000,000 loan, plus a government loan of one million. Shipping, East India Company, and naval concerns are noted, alongside proposals to consolidate Poor Rates and local pleas for street cleaning and public safety. The piece also narrates incidents from Sumatra customs to Bristol accidents and a sad shipboard suicide, plus a Sutton Coldfield workhouse misadventure with a near-miss corpse.

Court of Proprietors Hétie Lanson James Ludovick Grant Fair India House Baunswick Bombay Ching India Honourable East-India Company London Bethnal-green Milestrid Samuel Howell Pitcombe Mr. Parker Dalton-court Bristol Sutton Coldfield Leicester Coldfield

Countess of Elgin Displays Gifts from India to Majesty

Reports from a recent week note the Countess of Elgin presenting two fhus and oriental curios from India via Hon. Mr Bruce. Major Bromley, famed for Aboukir action, is reported well and with the Grand Vizier in Syria. Dutch Admiral Story resides at Croydon. Parole terms keep him ten miles from the capital. Future policy states French prisoners in Britain will be maintained by the Government. Local parishes distribute beef and bread to the industrious poor. The Antelopean Society at Whitehall Yard provided hundreds of loaves and beer for the poor across parishes and nations.

Buonaparte Syria Croydon Great Britain St. Martin, St. Clement

Distress and Crime Alarms Across Watford and London

A historical notice describes soup distributions for the poor in Watford amid bread prices, with charitable gifts from Lord Carrington and local clergy. It reports repeated highway robberies near Hyde Park and Lambeth, incidents in Lincoln's Inn Fields, Three Cranes Lane, and Barnes Common, and a harsh winter’s toll on vulnerable women moved toward Winterlow and Plymouth. An inquest into a weather-related death follows, and police patrols are ordered to curb roaming crime.

Watford Hertfordshire High Wycomb Lord Carrington Rey Cuttenham Cambridgeshire Hyde-park Kensington Lambeth Brackshaw Lincoln’s Inn Fields Roffey Edward-street Cavendish Square Barnes Common John Ramsey Charles Cole Southgate Palmer's Greeny Brookes Thames-street John Garden Ely Teddington Lord-Orford’s London Alderman le Meturieur Winterflow Salisoury Devonsiire Someretshire Haydon Hingman Winterlow Elizabeth Booby Edward Dobson Little Swaffham Cambridgethirs Newmarket Road

London Gazette notices reflect trades and dates for London and Yorke listings

Saturday December 21 London Gazette lists W Cook coachmaker Oxford Street Tan 14 February Guildhall and Rafcock money scrivener May Royd Huiar with dates December 27 23 February 3 at the house of Thomas Witson Bagby Yorke details show notices of trades and locations in a brief listing style with dates and residences.

W. Cook Oxford Street Tan Guildhall Rafcock May Royd Huiar Money Srivener Thomas Witson Bagby Yorke

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