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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 24, 1799
Page
2
Parliament session notes show the House of Lords adjourned after receiving two private Bills from the Commons and advancing Hills on the table in their stages. The Attorney General addressed the Tonitp of the Respondent in the Scots eal Heriot Macgill.
The Lords inform the Commons that the King will attend an Address Friday at St James's. Bills include a Thames tunnel from Gravesend to Tilbury and water supply for Liverpool. Licencing a theatre at Rochester is debated with a possible postponement to May 17. Wet Docks at Wapping and port improvements are set for full evidence before committees. Land Tax stock transfer extension and slave trade limitation bill hearings are noted with adjournment.
London dispatches highlight Piedmont insurrection as pivotal, forecasting wider reaction across Italy. Mantua siege chatter persists while Swiss unrest and Austrian recoveries shape sentiment. France’s actions in Turin Alexandria Tortona are noted for impacting the Republican-ruled states.
The piece surveys European rebellion and French outrages as Napoleon’s forces threaten Italy and Naples, while revolts erupt from Turin to Tarento. It criticizes the Directory in Paris for its coercive conscription and fear of Austrian invasion, warning of the republic’s collapse.
Yesterday after one, his Majesty held a Levee at St James's Palace attended by the Nobility. Princes Enwarp and Ernest were created Dukes of Cumpar Lane and Kent. Presentations included the Earl of Dysant on his new title and others on marriages and promotions. The King later met with ministers at the Queen's House. Princess Mary nears 23, and the Prince of Wales plans a Bath departure, with a return to town expected soon. Court at East India House saw officers bid farewell for China and Bombay assignments. Lord William to go as Envoy to the Russian army in Italy, with Lord Fredrick accompanying him.
A Hungarian Gazette reports French Princesses the Aunts of Louis XVI may reside in the Episcopal Palace at Agram with Cardinals and Neapolitan notables en route to Fiume and Trieste. Paris police issue residency rules requiring birth certificate, May 6 1792 residence proof, moral conduct, motives, and subsistence proof. Angiolini, ex minister of Tuscany, has departed Paris.
The April 16 sitting of the Council of Five Hundred reports total expenditures of 575 million, excluding 20 million for highways. Receipts are 421 million from contributions, 40 million from national property, and 72 million from extraordinary resources, totaling 533 million, leaving a deficit of 42 million. The committee proposes economy and reduction to cover the shortfall.
In Florence on Magenx 31 the Grand Duke sought to accompany a small retinue abroad. Reinhart refused passports for M. de Manfredzxi and Minister Seratti. A French Republic resolution provides one month’s salary to Grand Duke household staff from April 1, with pensions for the infirm, and mandates a formal staff statement detailing service, ages, tenure, and salaries. Lacuesee is to prepare the statement and report current, unpaid expenses.
Enquiry shows Mr. Tuo Geenville has not yet reached Vienna though daily exposure persists. Paris reports claim Russian troops to conquer Italy with Paul, and a June march. Emperor Paul might issue a Proclamation with a fresh levy of over 100,000. Sir H B Grave’s action with French frigates against British near Belleisle ends with French ships in Nantes river. Careau killed.
The Dublin address reveals Lord Martin's government actions during May 1769 to quell rebellion in Tipperary and surrounding counties. Rebels were disarmed May 22, leaders pursued, and 30 rebels whipped in Tippe rary with 1500 arms seized. It notes betrayal plots, executions planned in Youghan, and mentions mint march from Pembrokeshire to Cork. Also reports a Britannia tender carrying 50 French prisoners to Larne and a Dromard hanging and dissection in Rathkeal.
The king grants dukedoms and earldoms to his sons and heirs in Britain and Ireland. Exchequer issues allow purchase of unpaid income tax bills with discounts at the Bank. Paris papers report a Buonaparte widow buying Malina estate near Paris for 324,000 livres from Liscon LTeEuR. A shoemaker is convicted of exporting shoes altered to cheat, fraud undetected for three years.
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