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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 08, 1799
Page
2
Paris papers relay multiple French successes across Italy and Switzerland. Massena and Jourdan claim decisive actions near Verona, Adige, and the plains of Sua Gidae, with captives, cannons, and bridges seized. Reports note Austrian reverses, German campaigns, and ongoing naval and civilian disruptions across Europe.
The Lords heard Mr. Eelsine the Solicitor General and Mr. Adam on a Scottish Court of Session interlocutor appeal. The case concerns adultery claims where two co-accused would be witnesses, their admissibility disputed, and Lord Chancellor voices support for admitting them. A separate matter on the Volunteer Corps Bill saw objections to exemptions from militia service due to substitute costs. the committee was adjourned to Thursday.
In Parliament, petitions against the Wet Docks Bill were referred to the Committee on the Bill. Notices were given for bills to indemnify penalties under the 2d of James II and to repeal cattle slaughter provisions. Proposals to amend the Poor Laws were signaled for tomorrow. Militia Reduction discussion postponed to tonight. Scots Land Tax Redemption read and committed. Reports from the Committee of Supply and other bills advanced. Inquiry on excise and salt duties in Scotland since 1784 ordered. Committee to consider the Herring Fisheries report. resolutions passed. further discussion set for Friday. Adjourned.
A Sunday dispatch from Minorca and Admiralty advisories reach London. Charles Roland, a French emigrant held on treason charges, is seized at Havant and examined. Townsend and Macmatus arrest him and a Mr George Poppleton of Banner Street is found to be in a treasonous correspondence. Both men detained. Roland served as an usher at a Havant school. Poppleton faces charges of enemy correspondence.
A dispatch notes political convulsions as primary assemblies open in the South with disturbed inaugurations. Insults to municipal boards in Pevenas and Gignac, riots at Toulouse, and clashes in La Nieore mark widespread unrest. In Dordogne electors back last year’s rejected delegates while Versailles sees thin attendance akin to Paris.
A vessel from Messina reached Naples on the 4th carrying 42 French passengers returning from Egypt.
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