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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 30, 1800
Page
2
The session discusses affidavits for Authient- in- Mebetpat eeraat to tax chargers at solicitors plus regulating Commitsigatrs and delaying Inclosures Bills. Fees for Bills of Inclosures mirror Grigle Bills. Sir John Sinclair records objections and urges printing before a future deeper discussion. Report ordered for Tuesday. other Orders postponed.
London dispatch surveys late May reports on Italian battles from Melogno to Pietra. Massena claimed victories and prisoner totals clash with Austrian reports, while French casualties appear far lower than Austrian losses. Critics question authenticity and military coherence amid political moves in Paris and theatre licensing shifts.
Yesterday the levee at St James Palace drew attendance from Fortran An passapors the attorney and solicitor General Kear the Caspier ministers and numerous nobles. Presentations to His Majesty were made by Lord Cun nxingham and General Massey from Ireland General Simcos from the West Indies General Sir Rates Abercrombie returning from Scotland Colonel Woorrstror and Mr Paxson promoted in the Dragoons Captain Faeperick In top of Lord Baften promoted in the Navy. Tuesday night Mr Fiske principal oboe at the Queen's house collapsed from an apoplectic fit, Prince William of Gloucester witnessed the incident and helped transport him to Compton Street Soho where he died within an hour. Me Howarth and Mr Soane Aldermen of Dublin presented a petition against the Union.
Dispatches describe emigration crackdowns and a French effort on the Rhine as hostilities begin and armies move. Reports from Albbenga and Melogno recount Prussian and Austrian resistance, Italian campaigns under Suchet and Murena, prisoner tallies, captured standards, and a planned decisive operation on April 21.
In the sitting of April 22 the Council approved a plan by the Foreign Affairs Minister to promote diplomatic agents, creating four classes with fixed salaries and a fifth class for Diplomacy Students. Promotions advance between classes and recalls are possible, with degradation only on a five-person committee report. Also discussed was selling mineral spring profits for three years. The April 26 sitting saw the First Consul preside and a dispatch from General Oudiaut to Bonaparte read aloud.
From The Paris Papers Berne April 16: a Senate fitting proposed letting Primary Assemblies deliberate on offensive wars and alliances. Neutrality praised. a constitutional article could have avoided an offensive alliance with France. Francefort headquarters move to Fribourg. Reserve corps of 15,000 grenadiers advances toward the Rhine. Kray’s corps reinforced between Offenbourg Rastadt and Kehl. General Kray receives dispatches on Halyy campaign opening and early operations. War numbers issued to conciliate left bank and Belgium.
Fragmentary text reports a private audience with the emperor, dispatches delivered by Russia, and charges laid against an official. It notes a sovereign spared apartments in the imperial palace after a reported death, and mentions the Duke of Demonfer and Marquis de Campo killed in the period’s turmoil.
On the first day of Easter term in the King’s Bench at Portsmouth convicts behaved disorderly. Lord Taide urged reporting to the Secretary of State to restrain them and recall duties. A man named Ryder allegedly took money to excuse work on shore, prompting inquiry. Annuities bills were noted as delayed due to House siting.
The Adventure sails with 400 French prisoners to Portsmouth. The Edgar of 74 guns and adjacent ships anchor in Cowland Bay with Pompee Dragon and Ruffell. Spithead sees the Berrington convoy to Jamaica and troop ships from Fatward. Precogante Nemesis and others sail from Sheerness toward the Baltic with a large convoy. Yarmouth reports mail ships bound for Hamburg and Dublin, while Parliament debates tax and state affairs and the Duke of York lands amid royal discourse.
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