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Newspaper
Weekly Register
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 13, 1799
Page
5
Meff Johnson and Fordan, book sellers, convicted of a libel in publishing Mr Wakefield's Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff. Johnson to six months in the King's Bench Prison and a 50l fine. Fordan to one year in the House of Correction Cold Bath Fields.
His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief issues rules for military and public papers to be sent to the Adjutant General. Returns letters and papers must be addressed to the Adjutant General of the Forces, Horse Guards, London, with no signature line. Officials must avoid post fees by sending under covers to the Secretary for War, London, marked Quartermaster General's Department.
Friday near Welling Kent a horseback traveler Mr Baxter resisted three footpads, shot at them, was beaten and robbed of 741 dollars in bank notes. Soon after in Piccadilly a house was entered and robbed of 40 cash an English Lottery Ticket and valuables. Sunday night Mr Poulson’s New Compton Street home was broken into and property stolen.
Oxford February report lists E M Budd of Oriel College admitted B A. Rev H H Rogers of Wadham College admitted B C L. Additional gentlemen named as admitted B A include E Whitley All Souls G Mutter R W Hood St Edmund Hall G T Plummer W F Cosnith Exeter R Hibbard University J Tyley N Ruddocke J S Mathews H T Newport S Thackwell Trinity H D Phelps Hertford J G Copleston R Gatehouse Corpus Christi T Butt Christ Church J Lynn W S Knott H Masterman Wadham E Bryer F T Jackson M Hodge J B May J B Melbuiff Baliol I Tho.
Names such as J. Austen, R. Barker, Burne, and W. Kitson of Oriel are listed as elected fellows of a society. Cambridge announces that R. Farrer of Brazen Nofe College is named fellow, while the Professor of the Laws of England postpones lectures to the next term.
A long list of obituaries notes deaths across England and abroad. T. Bates Rous Esquire dies at Moor Park Herts. Rev. T. Olive of Mucking Essex and Rev. J Young of Legertwood remembered. John Good Quaker linen-draper dies in Bishopsgate in his 71st year. Mrs Shaw of Pontefract leaves £15,000 to her maid. Lt. David Reid wounded on Northumberland dies at Gibraltar Naval Hospital. Rev. T Chambers and long-serving parish minister praised for devout life and charity.
Admiralty advices confirm the Garland frigate is lost off Madagascar though the crew were saved. Nautilus and 12 merchant ships with convoy are near Flamborough Head with officers and crews saved. Commodore Blanket’s squadron was spoken off the Cape of Good Hope en route to the Red Sea. A cutter sighted Brest hints at French forces lacking full manpower. Capt Clarke of Victorious detains a vessel bound for Mauritius.
A chaotic convoy and privateer activity report notes Danish vessels off Tranquebar, detention of the L'Ouieu by a 96 gun ship, and a French privateer named L'Une near the Red Sea. It records wrecks near Scotland, flotilla movements from Portsmouth, and multiple captured or lost ships including the Fly and the Fowey cutter, with alarming losses among crews and cargoes across the Atlantic and North Sea.
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