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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 07, 1793
Page
4
Foreign intelligence notes that M. Descuorenes, alias DAusry, the French envoy, has spoken with neutral powers ministers and major bankers but refuses to help French residents seeking tri color cockades or free commerce. He says he cannot act for protection while needing protection himself and discourages external Republican symbols.
A report claims Cambray sent an envoy to the Prince of Co Bourg to fetch cavalry for the fortress as it leans toward surrender An ordinance at Lie seeks restoration to the 1789 footing and is said to reach the National Convention Meanwhile Cambray Life and Bouchain Republicans are said to be stockpiling artillery ammunition and provisions The Combined Armies progress causes consternation with Paris news absent from Ghent since August 1.
Clergy in Conde have been reinstated and the Chapter will celebrate its first Mass with solemn rites next Sunday. Those forced to flee regain houses and estates and even furniture, restored without legal interference. A Te Deum will be sung here and in Valenciennes, where Richard Coeur de Lion is to be performed that evening.
Amsterdam notices from the Directors of Commerce Levant and Navigation state that after considering imports and requests from merchants and shipowners, the States General grant the embargo removal for convoys to Smyrna the Levant and related routes. The Navy will escort patch merchants under English warships and maintain the ban on navigation with French ports and contraband traffic as decreed February and March.
A Danish ship reports army movements from the Southern Provinces toward Paris to prevent federation on the 16th. Valenciennes siege talk, Brest and Calais reports, and Liverpool ship intelligence describe mutterings of lordly maneuvers, with Prince Custine's memoir read in the Convention and telegrams from Gibraltar and New Providence detailing naval actions and revolts in Saint Domingue.
Reports from Bath and Shrewsbury describe the London booksellers Robinsons facing a trial before Judge Heath and a Special Jury over selling Paine rights of Man. Witness Pile testified he ordered copies and distributed some free. Verdict found against the defendants amid broader legal debates on sedition and publication.
August 7 reports arrivals of Circe and Bury frigates from the Eastward and a cruise. ships Two Brothers and Alarm bound for North Carolina and Bristol respectively. Notices speak of the Hy Na’s engagement with a French ship, a bloody battle with many officers killed, and the double-footing Battery ready for service on the French coast. A robbery on Lavender Hill, carriage attacks, and a shaft accident near Parliaments-street are noted, along with political contempt for Gardiner’s fleet. Marriages, deaths, and notable obituaries close the item, including Lady Jaxony and several local figures.
Hull reports arrivals from Greenland include Owina Ranger Newham Diana Truelove Samuel Mugg Enterprize Gibraltar Fanny Carolina Selby and others with oil and blubber whale fins skins and bones. Lively Webster also arrives at Whitby with 80 tons oil blubber and 3 tons bone from Greenland.
The Knutsford Sporting Intelligence column lists racing results for Tuesday and Wednesday events. It includes maidens and matches for weight for age with names such as Moleipinner Playfellow Viper Temperance and Citizens of the OS, plus entries by various owners and stables. details cover weights, placings, and names like Adonis Tommy Citizen and Giltner.
The Ewretta Beation sailing from London to Quebec reports on June 26 that two French privateers of 18 guns, the only ones on that coast, were captured by the Huffar frigate.
This morning the Duke of Buccleugh and Pitt, homeward bound, passed by the Downs on their way to the East Indies.
The Marlbro' man of war of 74 guns under Captain Berkley from the Downs arrives at Portsmouth along with the Liberty brig of 16 guns commanded by Serle from a cruise.
Aug 7 dispatch details winds and naval movements including Marlborough, Centurion, Gorgon, Dedalus, Syren, Duke of Buccleugh, Pitt Ad Indidmen, Alfred, Scorpion, and others with ships at Sheerness and the River. MAILS ARRIVED list follows. Stocks feature Banwx and India Stock figures, Exchequer Bills, Lottery, and Bank for August values.
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