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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 01, 1793
Page
4
A long verse tribute from Edgefield Parsonage Norfolk dated February 24 extols Pitt as defender of rights and reformer. It laments French revolutionary tyranny, lauds British virtue, and calls for steadfast resistance. The piece frames Pitt as defender against mobs and traitors, urging national virtue and divine justice.
Friday afternoon reports say Brets and Gertruydenburg surrendered and French garrisons may return to France. General Dumsou gigR retreats into France via Valenciennes and Lisle. Antwerp Mons Namur also surrender. Duke of Yorx and English guards advance to Bergen op Zoom as Hanoverians approach. News notes Brittany’s siege, Sen Dumeur men reward talk, and Calais gates reportedly closed amid weather.
Ratisbon March 8 dispatches outline formal proposals in the Imperial Council on declaring war against France, dissolving peace treaties, and neutrality restrictions. Reports from Dunkirk and Calais note unrest over recruiting and disrupted communications with England.
Lists multiple ships and captains arriving at and departing from ports including Londonderry, Kinfale, Dublin, Ostend, the Cape of Good Hope, Marseilles, Cape Francois, St. Domingo, Palmouth, Falmouth, Litbon, and Bristol. Notes include captures by a frigate, privateer activity, and naval movements. entries also cover sailings and arrivals in the Downs along with Dea April 2 and April 1 cargo and escort details. Grain market prices and general commodities values near the Corn Exchange are provided with varying quality and price shifts, plus minor references to vessels and privateers in passage.
The report details the Hereditary Prince of Orange advances at Breda with Swiss Guards and Dutch regiments aboard to join that prince. The Brigade of Guards receives orders to prepare for embarkation with four days provisions. Troops sail from Belle Vue Quay toward the Maese, likely destined for Bergen op Zoom to join Hanoverians, with 37th and 3d regiments ordered to proceed by transport.
Reports from Amsterdam dated March 28 detail a Prussian advance toward Mayence. A Prairias battalion left Coblenz on the 17th, followed by artillery and Hessian battalions, joining forces with troops crossing the Rhine at St Goar and moving toward Mainz. A strong Prussian battery is laid behind Frankfurt, with miners arriving at Frankfort.
In Lewes on April 11 the Cleopatra armed frigate Capt Bull seized a Swede from Nuntz bound to Brugesy with wine for use of Durouriet's army. Prize sent to Newhaven. West Kent Militia at Seaford practiced on a target bearing Dumourier's head, swearing to attack. Birmingham reports a town election dispute ruling current officers illegally appointed but acts valid.
News from the sea reports His Majesty's ship Latona under Captain Thornbo capturing two French privateers awaiting the Plymouth convoy and retaking a Dutch galliot. Latona and allied vessels also engaged a large French frigate off Brest, with the Circe and Druid nearby. The Hunter custom house cutter captured the St Peter of Nieuwpoort near Lowestoff, carrying fish and seven men crew. A Danish laden vessel drove ashore near Shields, feared drowned. The Laurens from Charleston to London taken by Sans Culotte and sent to Havre. the Piedger from London to Inverness lost near Peterhead with little cargo saved. The Mary bound Bristol to Africa is ashore at Blacknore. several Bristol Channel vessels ashore. The Ketch Gustava from Gothenburg to Ostend captured by Surprize and taken to the Downs.
Plymouth March 30. Sunday last about 260 French prisoners were landed at Devil's Point near Sternhouse and marched to Mill Prison under Marines. This morning orders arrived to prepare with dispatch as his Majesty's ships Captain Colossus and Fortitude of 74 guns each to be victualled for foreign service.
Admiral Gexi orders a squadron of ships of war to sail from St Helen's with the East India convoy under convoy. Ships include Boyne Ganges Edward Leda Phaeton and others. Captains Otway Hicks Molloy Dickson Campbell Inglefield and A S Douglas lead the squadrons. The Juno frigate under Hood will accompany Don Ganvino and Lord H otano sails to Cadiz.
The Elizabeth Hicks from Mavagefly 3 and His Majesty's ship Phito from Scilly arrive Plymouth. Savage sails with a fleet eastward. AFRICAL REGISTER at Hay-Market notes yesterday evening's Rival Sifter with the Prize. Collected by Covent-Garden, this week's theatre listings include valse Colours and prisoner, Columbus with Harlequin's Museum, and One has his Fault with Harlequin's Museum.
Yesterday evening couples tied the knot by special license at the Earl of Hopetoun’s residence in Varney-tree and at Burlington House. Notable unions included the Right Hon. Henry Dundas to Lady Jane Hope and the Hon. Charles Greville to Lady Charlotte Entinck, among others in Gloucestershire and Conduit Street notices.
An obituary note records Mrs Hilebrant of Pater Nofier Row dying after a long illness and Robert Duke Esq of Lake near Sthibury passing away in his 68th year. The item reflects a local, formal Victorian style of death notices with emphasis on age and residence.
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