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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 09, 1798
Page
2
Paris papers decry the Directory backed upheaval in Europe. France imposes a republic over Switzerland and fosters invasions in Italy and Sicily while promising aid to insurrectionists. Buonaparte’s leadership and a major expedition chill public faith in government.
Yesterday the King hunted at Tower Hill and crossed the Thames into Buckinghamshire with the Duke of Montrose and other nobles. Admiralty reports the Cambria frigate captured two French privateers and recaptured an American vessel, while Dover-Dover to Gravelines trade remains open. Advised postings mention Admiral Cotpoys to command in the East Indies aboard the Northumberland. A death at Magpies Hounslow Heath follows a Tuesday wounding, and Alderman Watcur is noted for long service in Candlewick Ward. Chatham barracks swell with over 2000 recruits for French campaigns.
SHTP NEWS reports the 14 gun privateer and 60 sailors captured in the North Seas by the Nautilus sloop and carried to Leith. Other vessels named include the William and Fanny and Peggy captured near Cape Finisterre. Plymouth Dock notes a 14 gun French brig, a chiffe marée lost with crew saved, and the Canada taken into dock. Curris’s squadron remains wind bound in Cawland Bay with Area frigate and Hart brig on a cruise. A mysterious man purchased a boat at Lowe stooft, set sail, but likely foundered in a S W gale. A French privateer of 18 guns arrived at Leith Roads escorted by the Nautilus after departing Dunkirk empty handed.
Thomas Cheese Henry French George Thorpe John Haines W Charter and George Cornwall were brought before Mr Fore sitting magistrate on suspicion of robbing and shooting Mr Meluisy on Hounslow Heath and related robberies. They were arrested at the Brown Bear Sea Coal Lane Fleet Market while attempting to board a hackney coach to Greenwich. Committed for further examination next Monday.
The Bilboa Packet and several ships from London reached Oporto while a larger group, including the Pallas Lamb Iroquois Hopkins Christiana Frances Foreman Sally Stocker Lucitania Scott and Elizabeth Pearce, arrived at Lisbon. The return Oporto fleet safely entered the Channel as Captain Puizitos is named to command the Sea Fencibles on the Hampshire coast. A Morning Paper questions Sir Northumser’s tax abatement. Lord Auckland’s finances and education of his family are cited. Christ's Hospital intends Easter admission for 160 children. Reports detail robberies near Menutsu’s site and a pawnbroker case involving copper plates tested at the Lord Mayor’s. Dublin notes military actions post proclamation, Detachment of Revenue Corps arrests in Ely Place, and distributions of arms near Clonmel. Proclamations threaten arms surrender with troop quartering if ignored. Yeomanry searches near Clonmel collect arms. Irish unrest continues with clashes at Killaloe and Cork. Detachments guard Dublin. trees cut near Rathfarnham. An United Irishman execution in Naas is described with martyrlike defiance. Parallel reports cover Galway and Maryborough trials and the spread of the United Irishmen.
Paris reports new negotiations between France and Portugal with wide forward movement. Mentions Bayonne missions, troop encampments between Ostend and Nieuport, fears of a Royalist crackdown in Orleans, and ongoing intrigue over Geneva’s incorporation. Notes Austrian and Prussian actions, naval moves from Cadiz and Rochefort, and possible German coalition against secularization.
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