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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 24, 1793
Page
4
In a Paris scene the Assembly in the Alps and the Constituted Authorities debate decrees against Dumourier. Soldiers vow to defend liberty, while Lyons commissioners report watchfulness over suspected traitor plots. A dispatched letter triggers scrutiny by the Committee of Public Safety.
The article recounts a April 14 permanent sitting on concerns of creditors toward Philippe d Orlean s movable fears lifted. It notes the Legislative Commissioners receipt, the Gardes Francois section stopping an address to the army and the Convention’s approval. It mentions the Justice Measfer forwarding a proces verbal to Marseilles accusing Citizen Bourbon of rash proposals. Tours citizens urge purging traitors and confiscation of emigrants properties, oath reenforcement, and a revolutionary penal code. The Convention orders the address printed for members.
Morning sitting notes citizens demand law tying corn prices to workers wages. Loire inférieu re department requests urgent aid as rebels plague left bank. Debate on form of government advances with calls to declare rights and establish stability. Names of Paris committees and Lyons petitions appear amid scrutiny and expulsions discussions.
Dumourier sought talks with Prince of Cobourg after failed March battles and promised French throne help. Cobourg, duped, aligned with Dumourier to seize wealth, while Austrian forces grew indignant at the first proclamation. Diplomats questioned orders, forcing a retract and a backpedaled second proclamation.
Fragments describe stock prices at eleven o clock with Indian bonds and consols listed. A Grenada letter mentions Barbadoes fleet rumors and potential hostilities affecting Surinam and Demerara. Reports on royal marriage gossip, German and French intrigues, and public debt measures surface amid Manchester and Liverpool credit concerns. A proposed plan to issue four million Exchequer Bills for mercantile credit is discussed, with ministerial meetings at Downing Street and the Mansion House. A new ship Hercules sails from Dyfart, later wrecking near Kinghorn.
The Downs squadron cruised off Dunkirk with a flag of truce indicating a special commission. Reports note captures and recaptures including the Expedifelife from Carolina to Havre, the Nymph with convoy to Hambrough and Bremen, and the Superb captured to Morlaix. The Brothers lost in the Gulf of Florida. the Hinde frigate captured the Young boy. the Repulse recaptured the Commerce. The Swallow missed near Sandy Hook, and vessels from the Elbe and Weser arrived off Lofthouse under convoy. Syren arrived with convoy. orders to halt salutes until war’s end. The Marie Joseph from St Martin’s bound to Nantes, prize to the Active privateer, captured a small French sloop. Durham sailed for Barbadoes as Colby’s fleet approached the West Indies. Wind S to S W.
In Portsmouth on April 24 a 74 gun ship believed to be the Colossus arrived at St Helens from Plymouth. The Hound revenue cutter captured a Dunkirk privateer Amy de Loix with 33 men and eight carriage guns, sending it to Shoreham. The privateer had seized a transport named William from Dublin to Dieppe, with soldiers and seamen aboard. April 29 Eagle arrived from Jamaica and the Colossus, a 74 gun ship, from the Downs.
Listings record marriages in Bath and at Buckingham House with names and spouses. Notices announce deaths of William Caldwall and Sir David Wardley, plus obituaries for Rev J Michell and Francis Law and a note on Richard Tickell of the Stamp Office. Daniel, dates, ages, and locations are given in terse honorific form.
Shipping news lists arrivals at various ports including Cassandra Dillon from St Bustatia and Ceefar White from Virginia, Munro Douglas from St Vincents, Saltey Shortbridge from Africaea, Kimber from Bristol, Lyss from Dominica, and Providence Scallion from New York. Sailed vessels include President Wallg ren Liffon and Favourite Ruffell bound for Gitend. Additional notes mention Dawns monarch Cumberland and several Royal Navy and yacht tenders, plus a price table for stocks and government securities.
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