Correspondents Promised Attention From M and W
TO CORRIESPONDENTS. M. and 1. W. have been received, and shall be at tended to.
31 Mar 1814
Page 1
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Newspaper
Dublin Journal
Location
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Date
Mar 31, 1814
Page
1
TO CORRIESPONDENTS. M. and 1. W. have been received, and shall be at tended to.
March 24 1814 reports a drawing room at the Castle on Thursday evening April 4. A French proclamation from St Jean de Luz through the Duke d Angoulême arouses cheers in Bourdeaux with 50 000 people shouting Vive le Roi. Dispatches note Bourbon restoration reception across the continent and a Mayoral address printed before British troops arrive.
The latest French papers up to the morning of the 20th describe Napoleon Bonaparte retreating from Rheims toward Paris as Allied forces under Wittgenstein Schwartzenberg and others push toward the capital. Reports note Buonaparte transferring troops to threaten the Allies and anticipated retakings of towns in the path of Bulow and Winzingerode while negotiations in Paris remain silent amid a Bourbon counter revolution mood.
The passage notes exiled family members and several of Buonaparte’s ministers among friends, but avoids naming them. It expresses hope that peace with the French Usurper will be concluded for forty pence.
The record describes Proclamations restricting dwellers from cities, rebel sieges, refugee misery in Dublin, and clerical letters between Bishop Bedell and Swiney. It notes Lord Justices actions, temporary pardons, and the brutal treatment of Protestants amid 1644 events in Cavan Dublin Longford and Meath with references to Borlase and Burnet’s Life.
His Majesty's ship Sappho under Capt O Grady joined part of the homeward West India Fleet at Cove Manoa then sailed up the British Channel. The Newfoundland Halifax and Quebec Freights depart after today with a fair wind. The last West India Fleet of the season is expected to sail mid next month.
Istawell March 71 notes Dublin Mail was robbed by four armed men at three this morning. Nine of the assailants who fired on the Derry Mail on the 18th are said to have been captured by Mr. John Armstrong High Constable of Dougheda. A Kilkenny theft describes thieves climbing Mary street house walls and stealing clothes and wearables from Rev. James Worrall's back kitchen.
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