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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 23, 1798
Page
4
Reports from the House discuss Maidstone confinement of alleged traitors, remarks on Emigrants and O Connor, and proposed new clauses to curb aliens. Officials detail arrests, trials, and security measures as Dublin and Ireland face unrest amid government warnings and police actions.
The bill would continue in force to August first and then into the next session. The report was received and ordered to be further considered Friday. Ireland’s Mr Piet brought a royal message on loan for Ireland’s service, identical to yesterday’s in the Lords. The message was referred to the Committee of Supply. Finance Reports postponed to two weeks hence. adjourned.
The London Evening Mail reports price quotes and stock notes, including Four Percent Consols at 48, with updates on the Hamsuren Mail due Sunday. It covers a dispatch from Rafadt flaté about French Republic notes on Rhine troop withdrawal and the Empire Deputies, urging cautious steps toward a peace settlement and a general rule on the fate of Titulgires states to guide negotiations.
Private correspondence from Brussels dated April 12 describes General Grenier’s division at Boulogne, a division from Italy moving to Calais, and a gth division marching to St Omer. Buonaparte dispatches top officers to all divisions to issue orders and ensure execution while rafts 96 feet long are built in Brussels canal to support entrenchments and cannon mounted on craft carrying 1000 men each under appointed engineers.
ST. PETERSBURGH Maxey 40. It is generally understood that the fate of Rome and of the Pope has made an impression on the Emperor. He signified to the Archbishop of Shebes, ambassador from Rome, that he would influence Catholic princes and courts of Vienna Madrid Naples to uphold Papal dignity. He assured spiritual sovereignty over Catholic subjects and offered asylum in his dominions if needed.
Parochial gatherings spread citywide to protect districts and aid government. Clergy of Hampshire and Isle of Wight urged to take arms in crisis, while Royal Circus joins military efforts. Lord Macartney’s Cape salary listed. tax plans hinted for licenses on hair powder and game.
A dated fragment outlines comprehensive civil defence measures for London. It details barricades, patrols, house connections, central street bells, rendezvous points, artillery placement, night cellar inspections, strict expulsion of foreigners, prison-ship use, and mobilization of various worker corps to guard bridges, waterworks, and riverfront areas.
The Herald, Pickstock, with 29 men and 6 guns, arrived at Jersey from waders on a voyage to that port. On February 26 at the Bay of Naples entrance three French privateers engaged for hours, suffering heavy losses. the Herald sunk a launch attempt the next day, with all aboard perishing. Multiple other privateers and ships were captured or reported, including L Aneille and La Jeanne arrivals at Jersey, and messages from Portsmouth and Yarmouth describe ships and movements of convoys and patrols.
Yesterday Nichola Virgen John Fackson and F Pearson privates of the Guards were brought before the Sitting Magistrate by Bow Street officers. They were seized on Monday night on the road to Hammersmith after Stow of Hammersmith reported being robbed of 38.6d and a pocket-book by two footpads. Virgen was identified by Stow in the street dress he wore when seized. The men gave conflicting accounts of their business on the road. Stow was bound over to prosecute. Magistrates ordered all to be brought up on Friday next. Remains noted are stock prices at Messrs Baxter Kemp and Noble of St Mary at Hill.
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