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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... in five days with great cafe. . , Football. — Wediicfday morning an extraordinary match of football took place at Dur.ftablc-dowus ; a young gentleman took the bill fbr 200 guinea-;, a- gaioft eleven of the iidf football players in the coun try, which. ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1789
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4289 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Edinburgh, [ill] 18

... H-lowie, anived at Dundec from eLoiiden, two passengers, upon suspicion of hav- f ing forged a L.5 note of the British Linen Com- pany, or of having uttered the note knowsing it to be forged. They underwent an examination I before the Magtstrates, and were committed ...

Published: Wednesday 22 December 1802
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 816 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... importations were. stated by the Committee of the ~ouse,' at that time, to be the cause of the scarcity of money; and no Bank-notes were then in existence. He would now state the causes of the stoppage of cash payments'in 1797.- :Before that time there was ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1811
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7951 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY

... out the kinigdon. ' : . ' ?? ' ,re It isStated; on authloity, that the issue of the 7 Sorgery on the Pnisley bank iive pound note, has oc ,r not exceeded 23, and that the most of them have i ble been collected so that from tlegang being in' 'he custody ...

Published: Monday 27 November 1820
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1934 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

EDINBURGH TRACT SOCIETY

... C Ipoorticslar lorloog of indoulging ilo idletoess, in druoleotoiess, in ho ariotitog, itt I orbotlstt vports, etoto as foot-ball, harod-!oall, lour- h IF hinor, &c.; in dancing, in gossiploog ; yes, ands in ribal Iry, a t, oloctlon tond iatrigtte, wolich ...

Published: Monday 14 May 1821
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4125 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

JUVENILE AMUSEMENTS

... was myself the bearer of a note from my mother, which broadly insinuated that I was not to be whipt. The master, who had probably heard something about my character, sent me back, and gave the servant who had accompanied me note, informing her that he had ...

Published: Monday 01 March 1824
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4227 | Page: 49 | Tags: none

POLITICAL GOSSIP

... here as necks and bow-strings. The Sublime Porte was amusing himself in the court of his haram last night with a game at foot-ball, when the Greek bead, which be made use of, is said to have rebounded from the wall of the baram, and to have injured the ...

Published: Thursday 23 September 1824
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 483 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

70REIGIV INTELLIGENCE

... committed on M. Rothschild, came to tell him that he had been ordered a few days before to make him a b-lt fit to contain Bank -notes, and that the person who wanted it was to co:ne for it on a particular day, and at an hour which had b?en fixed on. This two-fold ...

PRIVATE _CORRESPONDENCE

... , _'it is calculated tnat a _fictitious _capital was _created , amounting to more _than double _ the sum issued in bank _notes . A most severe panic lias been _experienced at _. _the money _market to-day , where every description of stock has fallen ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1826
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2592 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

INVERNESS. . FRIDAY, Decmum 22, 1826

... reached Lisbon, the Chamber of Deputies evinced the most unbounded confidence in the friendship, zeal, and power of England. A note was immediately sent to the Spanish Ambassador at Lisbon, signifying that his powers were suspi:nded, and a courier was despatched ...

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8,

... process which the actual quantity of notes required l«y the community can ascertained. In general, indeed, where there are rival banks, every one endeavours issue as many notes as possible. The greater the quantity of notes circulated, the greater the profit ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1832
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 5191 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOCAL NEWS

... but not think that a revival the foot-ball, which tha humble have tacitly abandoned and thrown up. it cai culated to be beneficial amusement, or in any other way whatever to that class of the population. The football appears to us unsuitable to the times ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1835
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 2770 | Page: 3 | Tags: none