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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 01, 1799
Page
3
A long letter urges loyalty to Ministers whose measures are constitutional and warns against detaching from government. It emphasizes unity, public virtue, and the danger of discord, urging the recipient to support Mr P r and to meet ministers with good humor in defense of empire and liberty.
The article describes current styles with elaborate outfits. It notes the Hadit a Escalier dress in blue satin with gold lace, round gowns in white muslin and yellow mufflin, yellow roses on breasts, and accessories including head-dresses, fans, gloves, beaver hats, lilac shoes, and purple cloaks. A mornin unvaess outfit features neuilin and rosettes with gold girdles.
The notice reports Mrs Reywolds, formerly Miss Mantel, resigning her role at Covent Garden Theatre and bidding farewell to the stage. It also notes a bill of indemnity for Lord Massey in the Irish House of Peers for sitting without oaths. An Irish gentleman at the Mount quibbles over Carnot remarks amid a frost worry about continental rivers closing again.
A report from the Secret Committee of the House of Commons details alleged traitorous links between English and Irish societies, including the London Corresponding Society’s January 30 1798 paper praising Irish rebels, oaths, and a Constitution for the Society of United Englishmen, urging reform and a republican government with ties to France.
The account details a mutiny aboard the Lady Shore bound for New Holland. French émigrés and deserters seize the ship, kill Captain Wireck and Mr. Lambert, and force surrender of arms. The mutineers send 29 people in the long boat to Port Saint Pedroes, Rio Grande, facing storms, then endure harsh treatment and misfortune aboard Brazilian ports and ships before eventual delivery to the Tagus. The narrative records Capt. Minchin’s schemes, Semple Lisle’s pretended Dutch rank, and grim subsistence throughout the voyage, ending with a transfer and a Lifton bar incident.
From the London Gazette a detailed copy details the capture of Corfu by Russian and Turkish forces with French evacuation. It records the capitulation articles: garrison surrender of town and forts, return of personal property, convoy to Toulon or Ancona, and protection of inhabitants and sick. The exchange includes stipulations for armed forces and naval support, with terms binding officers and crews to parole.
A signed declaration from a Bombay Marines officer asserts the accuracy of a report. He states he was aboard the ship and accompanied Mr PraSel from the main ship to a long-boat, signing as Gekirb Daummono Liest.
Tuesday proceedings include Arai and Ricker divorce bill readings, orders to commit on Thursday, and a move to lay before the house an annual navy expenditure account since 1788. Copper Regulation Bill reading delayed to Monday. notices on Land Tax Redemption, Harwich writ, and inquiry into Copper Mines. new bail Bill in Scotland. Distillery Bill committee and report due tomorrow. adjourned.
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