Notable list of defendants and officials in Guildhall notices
A long OCR extract lists names and professions with Nov and Dec dates for trials and attendances at Guildhall including Je Phillips Addle-street money-recrivener and Piccadilly butcher. It notes appointments of Lieut. Gen. Sir R. Abercromby as Governor of Fort George and Isle of Wight, plus a Morrocan embassy gift shipment from Wocalwich to Portsmouth gun-wharf aboard the Tiger. It ends with a violent death and a robbery incident near Staines and Hountion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Je Phillips
Addle-street
Guildhall
JT Bunn
Piccadilly
N. Morrison
Runcorn
Chester
T. Osman
Bath
Castle and Ball Inn
R. Abercromby
K.B
Fort George
Fort Fu Us
North Britain
Wocalwich
Portssmouth
Sydney Smith
Pichegru
Morocco
Drury-lane Theatre
Old Bailey Sessions Hear Several Felonies Inmates
The sessions began with 32 prisoners tied, 29 convicted of felonies including Ann Forbes for stealing items from furnished lodgings. Twenty six prisoners faced trials, with three capitally convicted: J Tomkins for stealing five sheep, J Baylis and A Smith for forging and uttering a draught for 15. One convicted of felony and 13 acquitted. J Wheeler convicted of felony in marrying wives. J Bond, 69, indicted for the murder of his wife September 29. Evidence showed the wife was a peaceable woman despite years of marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Forbes
J. Tomkins
J. Baylis
A. Smith
J. Wheeler
J.bond
Ann
Sarah Shaw
Ann Moffatt
John Franks
Prisoner executed after murder plea fails at trial
Quarrels over a small estate led to mounting cruelty by a husband toward his wife. On the day of her death she cried out murder and was found with a poker in the assailant's hand. He claimed insanity, but the jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death. Additional sentences included several others for related offenses and a December adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Bond
Old Bailey
Lloyd
Reynolds
Dowle
Hountion
Staines
Tomkins
Baylis
Smith
Newgate
House of Correction
Clerkenwell
E. Atkinson
J. Turk
L. Ball
L. Lynham
J. Warwick
Mewgate
Grantham packet reaches Falmouth with Jamaica mails
From Falmouth and Plymouth water fronts comes news of the Grantham arriving in 49 days with Jamaica dispatches while crews from ships at Port Royal suffered illness and deaths. Four seamen from the Glory of 98 guns were executed at Spithead for mutiny and murder. The Captain of 74 guns faced a similar fate at Cowand Bay. Lord Bridport and privateers moved, while Le Tigre sailed for the Mediterranean with gifts for the Moroccan emperor. Dover reports Humbert’s neutral voyage and Leith ships from Jamaica bring sugar and rum. Chance of Leith burned after a leak forced crew to abandon ship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falmouth
Grantham Packet
Jamaica
Port Royal
Grantham
Plymouth
Hamoaze
Cawiand Bay
Lord Bridport
Torbay
Royal George
Lord Hawke
Mevagisley Bay
Mediterranean
Engand
Portmouth
le Tigre
Sidney Smith
Morocco
Motherbank
Spithead
Dover
Humbert
Suite
Gravelines
Leith Roads
Roselle
Leith
Dart
Exeter
Bishop
Empire Deputation to handle debts and Rhine tolls debate
Letters from Rastadt dated Oct. 15 describe the Empire Deputation’s forthcoming conclufum on postwar finances and governance. Key points include assigning provincial debts to the Empire, limiting forts near Kehl and Casfel, abolishing Rhine tolls after peace, preserving the Isle of Roderick for the Empire, and various ecclesiastical and emigration provisions. Austria’s vote is noted as more pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rastadt
Kehl
Casfel
Rhine
Isle of Roderick
Empire
France
Duke of
Holstein
Alsace
Lorrain
Frankfort
Hamsburgh
Bremen
Austria
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S.M. Parsons
Culmstack
Devon
Mercer
W. Rowland
Lambeth-dock
Vietualler
J. Fotter
Newington-causeway
Surry
Hosier
Taylor
St. Giles’s
T- Butler
Blackburn
Lancashire
Callico-Manus
T- Hawkes
Dudley
Worcestershire
J. Walton
Halifax
Yorkshire
R. Kent
Sonning
Oxfordshire
T. Sutcliffe
Colden
Yorkhhire
W. Hodgson
The
Strand
J. Rickman
Maidenhead
Berks
H.brokes
Ipwich
N. Living
T.parker and
E. Parker
Sheffield
Shtp News
Germany
Ofavo
Church of Christ
Waldenies
Joseph Milner
Kingstonepoin Aull
Cambridge
John Burges
Univerity
C. Dilly
J. Matthews
London
J. Deighton
W.leffeyman
J. Todd
York
T. Browne
R. Milton
Hull
J. Binns
Leeds
J. Cottle
Bristol
S. Hazard
Asted
Mall
M. S
Whitechapel Road
Wood-street
Cheapside
John Fidd
Gainsborough
Lincolnshire
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