Slave Trade details and Militia Bill pass in Lords
Lord Grenville pushes full examination of the slave trade with ship tonnage and seamen counts from 1791 to 1797. Militia Reduction Bill and related measures are read and approved. the Crown grants Royal Assent to several bills and the throne speech highlights Europe’s war outcomes and future unity with Britain. Parliament prorogued to August 27.
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Lord Grenville
Henig
Abingdon
Thanies
Almas
Radnor
Lord Sydney
House of Commons July 11 180? Papers on Slave Trade and East India trade
The House of Commons debates motions for papers on the slave trade and East India Company private trade. Mr Pitt seeks to press measures in the next session while Lords and new writs are noted. Resolutions on public debt are read, negated, then agreed. A writ for Banffshire is moved.
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Pitt
Argyleshire
Frederick Campbell
Chiltern
Brogden
East India Company
William Busby
Tierney
Faipay
Bamffshire
Grant
Dundas
India
Great Britain
Court of Directors
the East India Company
Militia Bill Protest and Speaker’s Speech Reflected in Lords
Lords debate focuses on Militia Reduction Bill and calls for swift trade arrangements with India. Protestants Caernarvon Radnor and Fitzwilliam condemn militiary changes, criticizing coercive drafting and officer degradation as a betrayal of private justice and national rights.
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Caernarvon
Radnor
W. Fitzwilliam
Ship News From the Admiralty and East India Fleet
Friday morning Lieut Skinner arrived at the Admiralty from the Cape of Good Hope with news of the homeward bound East India fleet totaling 21 richly laden sail. Reports describe engagements off Macao on 27 January with Spanish and French forces, the English Arrogant and Intrepid prevailing in night action before retreating to sea.
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Skinner
Admiralty
Cape of Gope
Macao
L'Virginie
Canton
Arrogant
Virginie
Prince of Wales Island
Ceylon
Exeter
Brunswick
Bombay
Castle
Fort
William
Bridgewater
Airly
Calle
Barcell
Carron
Surat
Anna
Bengal
Anna of
West Indies
M. Barthelemy
Gen. Willot
London
Plymouth
Royal Sovereign
Alan ‘Gardner
Czar
James Saumarez
Rufell
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French Republic
Russia
Europe
Ieland
Nance
Teenie
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British
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Fitzwilliam
Ansiche
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