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Newspaper

Weekly Register

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Mar 27, 1799

Page

6

Cannons, storms, and wrecks amid Plymouth shipping

Distressful shipboard tale ends with survivors reaching Canna aided by Mr. Donald MacNeill. Reports from Plymouth note ships Cerberus and Thisbe leaving harbour, La Mercure prize, and Telegraph with Swal-low prize. A fatal gun-wharf explosion kills Mr. Brace and son. several others wounded. Further notices include other prize captures, arrivals, and smuggling seizures.

Canna Donald MacNeill South Ulft Plymouth Cerberus M‘namara Thisbe O'Bryen Cawland Bay la Mercure Bourdeaux la Mercuré Worth Torbay Mr. Brace G. Newman R. Herdon G. Searles Royal Hospital Carter Catdown J. Young Nantz Eichaelion Chace Rochefort Brett Clyde C. Cunningham

British Parliament clears several public bills in lively Commons

The House of Commons passes the Newfoundland Convoy Bill and reads the Slave Limitation Bill a second time. Lords approve the Land Tax, Income, and Provisional Cavalry Bills. Debates over prison treatment, copper issues, East India trade warehousing, and Overseers’ Assistant Bill shape the session. Adjournment follows debates and committee actions.

Wiliam Scott High Seas F. Burdett House of Correction Coldbathfields Despard Wilberforce Duffin Francis W. Smith Pitt Baronet W. Young Mr. Hobhouse A. Thornton Thornton Gascoigne Dundas William Young Sewell Dent Hawkins Browne Williams Cornwall East India Company East Indies England Wales Ong Sistegy

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