23 Dec 1790
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Newspaper
Dublin Journal
Location
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Date
Dec 23, 1790
Page
1
Foreign intelligence reports Vienna dated November 20 noting Emperor’s arrival from Presbourg and Hungary’s Diet offer of 50,000 dicate. The message states pleas to lead peace talks, Hungarian support for War, and potential Austrian terms. Also referenced is antisemitic illness in Progey with Jewish quarters cut off, and government measures to curb contact.
Fragmentary dispatch describes Vikadars and forces at Adrianople and Consentinople amid fires. Troops are cut off, cannons seen firing, and a general is threatened by Potemkin as surrounding forces close in. Escape seems nearly impossible.
A fragment from Constantinerre shows misgivings about a military campaign as Numan Rey returns from a failed mission to restore troops amid mutiny threats. Reports note two state papers on suspending arms with Austria and weak war prospects with Russia. The Grand Sultan withdraws Janissaries from the Swedish envoy Heidenstein and curtails Swedish aid, while diplomats seek audience on political matters.
Fragmentary dispatches describe officials in Warsaw debating nobility rights and indigents with plans to ease tribute to the treasury. Prince Cobourg seeks instructions as Russian evacuation looms, while Jaffy emissaries note petitions for nobility titles. A memorial from the lex Jefalté favors seminaries over compensation.
News from the Eat India Company details the loss of a ship named Commerce after a collision or peril, with 250,000 Moring In specie aboard. About eighteen of two hundred crew and passengers survived, while others perished or were unaccounted for amid the disaster.
The Assembly approved a provision of three million francs for late armament and colonial charges paid to the Marine Minister. M de la Rochefoucault presented the year’s supplication, noting that previous contributions now exceed by 260 million the amount enacted for that year. The Reporter added that 300 million would come from Landed Property, provoking murmurs among members.
Reports note Tippoo Sultan with a Foo,cRo army near Melipore while General Lally, in Tippoo's service, besieges Cratiganore. France news recount Clergy clashes with the National Assembly and Pope, Necker’s likely memoir, martial and colonial shifts, and Paris clerics imprisoned. Extra from Berlin suggests a general peace with England and Spain. Margate chapel accident disrupts Wesley preaching as public room offers substitute venues.
The Royal Academy lecture by Sir Joshua Reynolds opened with a note of reconciliation and gratitude to the Academy about to mark the end of past disputes. Separately, reports from Worcester, Camberwell, and London describe a by mail robbery, a devastating domestic fire, poacher incidents, and major trials at Old Bailey with sentences for Rhynwick Williams and others, including confessions and alibi disputes.
Notices describe a violent week at sea with 180 seamen and volunteers discharged from a Riymouth vessel, a brigantine from Cork to Bristol foundered near Holyhead, and rich casualties as a Holyhead harbor wreck ends with many lives lost. Other reports note a Cork to Bristol brigantine, Youghal bottles, and Newfoundland cargo casualties. The piece also covers local thefts, a court action against a forger named Sharkey, and multiple obituaries and marriages in Dublin and surrounding counties.
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