London Chronicle on Goldsmiths affair and Bonaparte voyage
October reports recount Abraham Goldsmith and Co suffering at sea and the Bank of England aiding the firm with a 45 percent pledge on Omnium. Lucien Bonaparte and family arrive in Malta tasks, while arrangements for voyage to America and political moves involving Portugal and Algiers are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Goldsmith
Mile-end
London-bridge
Moxon
Exchequer
House of Abraham Goldsmidt, & Co
Bainbridge
Barnett
Kensington
Perceval
Downing Street
House of Abraham Godsmith & Co
Goldsmidt
Goldsmiths House
Malta
Lucien Bonaparte
Madame B
Barre
Pomona
Cagliari
Sardinia
Civita Vecchia
Rome
Ferdinand VII
Spain
Europe
America
Oakes
Fort Ricasoli
Koningsberg
Memel
Admiralty
Algiers
English News From Leith and Spain 1810 Proclamations
Summary of Leith London dates and battles with French and British forces. Reports on Iberian Peninsula fighting, Spanish peasants, Cadiz Cortes, and a Joseph Bonaparte proclamation urging independence and alliance against Britain. Includes Lisbon embargo and French provisions concerns.
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France
Joseph
London
London Courier
Spanish America
Joseph Bonaparte
Spain
Indies
West Indies
Madrid
Repairs Accelerate For Line Yet To Rejoin Fleet
Constantinople reports three hips of the line damaged in a Black Sea storm have reached the Canal for rapid repairs to rejoin the fleet. The Russians at the Danube mouth and Stilts of Sebastopol face potential action as Captain Pacha blocks Se bastopol. A Russian mounted assault on Radschuch is repulsed by local garrison and inhabitants with prisoners taken, including officers.
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Constantinople
Black Sea
Danube
Pacha
Sebastopoli
Embar go Decree Blocks Ships from Elbe to Jutland
Hamburgh August 31 report that a Kings Decree issued August 26 imposes a broad embargo on all vessels regardless of load. The embargo covers the Elbe River region to Holstein and Schleswig and extends to the western coast of Jutland with no end seen.
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Hamburgh
Elbe
Holstein
Subleswick
Jutland
Captain Forbes Arrives with Lisbon News for New York
From the Freeman's Journal November 17 and correspondence from the New York Evening Post November 15, Captain Forbes of the brig Sylph arrives with dispatches from Lisbon dated October 7 and papers up to October 6 now in circulation.
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the Freeman's Journal
New- York
N. York Evening Post
Forbes
Sylph
Lisbon
Ocober
Despatch of Massena to Berthier from Almeida to Coimbra
Massena reports army left Almeida on the 16th and reached Viseu on the 19th after hard roads. English at the Criz bridge dislodged. 8th corps at Viseu. grand artillery and baggage delayed awaiting repair. He warns of two days at Viseu and continuation to Coimbra to join English and Portuguese forces.
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Massena
Berthier
Monseigneur
Almeida
Vifeu
Coimbra
Criz
Viseu
Desperate British Retreat Reported in Letter
A fragment from a letter describes the English ordering remaining civilians to abandon houses, including women children and the aged. It notes soldiers finding potatoes and vegetables, some illness from the march, and signals concern over the enemy encounter. Signed, the writer.
British-Portuguese Movements Hint at Impending Decisive Battle
The brig Sylph from Lisbon reports no battle since late September and a tense Allied position. Lord Wellington and Romana are with the British force as French forces occupy Oporto and Figueras. Mortier’s 12,000 troops reinforce the French, while transports descend the Tagus amid an embargo to avert defeat.
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F. Flairs
Lisbon
New-York
Velercay
Sylph
Forbes
Westlington
Villa Fraca
Oporto
Figueras
Maslena
Mortiers
Tagus
General Armstrong and suite aboard the Sally voyage
A shipboard letter from the Sally reports Captain Scott steering through a storm to Montauk after striking Shagwam reef. General Armstrong and family with several passengers from Philadelphia, Charleston, New York and others were aboard, the vessel having sailed from Bordeaux on October 12 and arriving at Montauk on November 14.
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General Armstrong
Wednesway
London
Scott
Bordeaux
Gen. Armstrong
Pefsinger
Montauk Ane
Martin’s Vineyard
General Armsrong
Meirs. Claiborn
Milvaine
Philadelphia
Mr. Gardner
Charleton
Alexander Phoenix
New- York
Mon UK
Skiddy
Torpedoes and Fulton Experiments Stir Public Debate
A correspondent rebukes critics of Fulton’s torpedo concept and defense experiments. The piece praises the effort to develop harbor protection and commerce safety, noting mixed views from Commodore Rogers and Captain Chauncy while urging rational testing over ridicule.
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Trippe
Falcon
Falcons
Adam
Commodore Rogers
Captain Chauncy
Fulton
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Margaret
Scotland
Rio Janeiro
England
Baltimore American
Hazard
White
Leith
New York
Mount Vesuvius
Saxony
Mackenzie
Scheldt
Simon
Talavera
Mandego
Maffena
Corunna
Cadiz
Estramada A
Andalusia
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