France Naval Movements and European Bluff News
A collection of dispatches notes English naval actions near French ports, flotilla readiness and suspected Mediterranean port movements. Reports claim French port fires reduced to deter enemy forces, a Venitian squadron near Syracuse and Messina, and embargo measures at Havre. Also described are garrison movements and small skirmishes near Bantry Bay with captured arms and arrests.
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Marseilles
Vie Reary
Journal Des Campagnes Et Des Armies
6Th Inft
Havre
Martin
Feae
Perut
Mufin
Isles of
Margon
Waitz
Hesse-Caffel
Prussia
Paderborn
Hildesheim
Corfu
Regret Over Loss of Ancient Constitution Wields New War Foes
In the Venetian context amid Campo Formio disputes, factions debate liberty’s fate and the Emperor’s grip. Secret plots in de ci devant Venice surface as Palawan Oglou aims to push the war theater into Wallachia and Moldavia with Greek allies and Polish malcontents providing reinforcements. Ottoman Porte renews talks with him per Constantinople letters.
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Campo Formio
Vienna
Erlang
Franckfort
Venice
Semlin
Venroes
Palawan
Desperate clash in Clonmell between soldiers and insurgents
Report from Clonmell states a violent affray occurred this morning between a party of the military and insurgents. Several insurgents were killed and some soldiers wounded. Details remain uncertain as messengers describe a heated encounter in the town.
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Cork
Night raid ends with insurgent shot, pursuit in Cork
In Cork on Saturday night Longueville cavalry engaged 400 to 500 night offenders marching toward Mount North House of arms. After dispersal and continued firing, a sergeant overpowered some, then shot a retreating insurgent dead after a pistol misfire. Several insurgents reportedly wounded. a meeting of locals followed in Maljow.
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Longueville Corps
Batlaclough
Longueville Cavalry
North House of Arms
Mal Jow
The Ballad of the United Irishman and a Despairing Father
A long fragmentary excerpt in verse recounts a family seeking work and security, then drawn into rebellion. A father laments beggary and murder charges as loyalists and neighbors push him toward violent acts, his sons die in battle, and he vows to flee with his wife and daughter. The ballad laments betrayal, loss, and a doomed legacy.
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Lrose
Torob
Coriot
Zoby
Jeplin
Tyas
Judith
Privateers and ships captured in Atlantic trade clashes
News from the Wrights armed ship reporting captures of six gun privateers and recapture of prizes including the Elizabeth, Spaldon, and Ranger, with detailed lists of seized vessels and routes. The account covers subsequent captures by privateers near Brest, Cape Finisterre, Ostend, and Bergen, plus Royal Navy actions and a late cannonade report and court martial on board.
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Elizabeth
Wels
Spaldon
Boston
Ranger
Yarmouth
Tynemouth
Dunkirk
Horsbrough
Liverpool
Boultenai
Brest
North Sea
Swift
Huffey
Pool
Lisbon
Cape Finisterre
Spain
George
Dublin
Martinicé
St. Helena
Cayenne
Anna Catharina
Jacobson
Gosport
Bottersdam
Flushing
Cyrus
Blake
St. Michael’s
Africa
Bourdeaux
Charlotte
Marthais
Halifax
North Channel
Bergen
Asia
Rebeiro
Oportu
Blair
Newcastle
Copenhiagen
Christiansand
Pegey
Foster
London
William and Fanny
Cameron
Shelds
Oporto
James and Mary
Nicholton
Mandah
French Spanish Dutch Fleets Compared Amid War Hopes
A period note claims the French Spanish and Dutch navies are united in striving to meet Britain at sea while finding their fleets poorly equipped and far from complete, describing England as faring better yet under pressure.
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England
Manchester Treason Arrests Prompt Large Irish Showing
Messengers and Bow Street Officers from London seized eight people on High Treason charges in Manchester. A large Irish crowd gathered to attempt rescues as drums beat and volunteers mobilized. Prisoners were moved from New Bailey to four carriages under Bow Street guard toward Newcastle on route to London. Names include two sons of Mr Downproy the printer, Cheatham a cotton-pinner, and Fryataylor. others labeled Irifimen.
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London
Duke of Pontianp
New Town
New Bailey
Manchester and Salford
Newcastle
Downproy
Cheetham
Fryataylor
Irifimen
Rosolio and Cedar Lead Craven Meeting Sub Handicap
Sporting intelligence from Newmarket Craven Meeting notes a subscription handicap for two year olds and up. R M Cookson’s Rosolio and Sir C Bunbury’s Cedar head a field of four year olds with weights around 7st 7lb. Peggy, Battle, Trumpeter, Sparrowhawk and others contest across the Flat with odds and placements listed.
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R.M
Rosalio
Cedars
Pegzy
Public Office Trial Re-examines Lit Swindler in Hampstead
William Moore alias the Hon Liew Smith the Literary Swindler faced a fresh felony charge in Highgate after a guardian alleged he duped Mitchell Farrier by offering to employ the eldest of four children as a cabin boy. The accused claimed the shirt and stockings were misplaced at his Hampstead lodgings.
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Illiam Moore
Liew Smith
Mitchell Farrier
Highgate
Hampstead
Smith
Sheernes
Mitchell
Duke of Northumberland
Beaumont man to be tried for arson at Chelmsford gaol
Saturday fo nnight Samuel Smith of Beaumont was committed to Chelmsford gaol by clerk Matthew Thompson on the oath of John Dennis for feloniously setting fire to Mr Dennis's bean stack. The act occurred about eight in the evening, Smith fled to a public house and bragged of the fire. he was captured with the instruments, confessed, and later denied it. The beans stack and nearby structures were damaged despite neighbors' efforts. Smith remarked during confinement that rats fleeing the fire gave him amusement.
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Samuel Smith
Beaumont
Chelmsford
Matthew Thompson
John Dennis
Smith
Dennis
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