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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 12, 1796
Page
1
The document outlines severe measures including execution by shooting for anyone proven to have fired on a Frenchman, burning of villages and houses, and destruction of towns that harbor arson or take up arms. It bans assemblies and mandates death for any assembly leader or rebellion chief.
The article outlines a July agreement between French generals and the Margrave of Baden detailing payments to France, troop passages, and supply quotas. It also covers the French Directory’s resolutions on Belgian armaments, navigation service, and a broad plan for indemnities and suppression of religious establishments in Belgium, with related administrative steps and meetings.
The Executive Directory invited the Council to consider the fate of Belgian monasteries. The Commission stated that oppression might have caused outrages when French troops entered Belgium, but now religion is eradicated and knowledge prevails. The Commission doubted the need to dissolve the existing monasteries.
In Bologna on July 8 reports describe Lugo inhabitants urged to arm in defense of saints and state. General Ancretan warns three hours to lay down arms or Lugo will be stormed. A clash near Lugo results in several deaths of dragoons. heads of two Frenchmen reportedly displayed at Lugo Hotel de Ville. French forces march on Lugo as Ferrarese authorities urged arms surrender and loyalty to Ferrara.
From the French papers, the U S agent at Rouen reports Capt Graves’s Eliza, from Cette, captured en route and sent to Tunis by a corsair. He warns American captains to beware Tripoli and Tunis ships. The same letter notes American prisoners at Algiers have reached Marseilles and are undergoing quartering.
Report from Aug 1756 details Sir John Warren's squadron under Anson off Jersey and Brest, chasing convoyes and engaging vessels including La Sufitante and Pomone, with ships wrecked and a large convoy captured. Separate Exning riot covers gleaning rights, field clashes, and authorities deploying Dragoons. two robbers to be executed.
Eight prisoners in Dublin were lodged in the New Gaol after being pardoned for transportation. They had been condemned for Defenderism and arson but were spared death by Government mercy. At Omagh Affizes little business occurred. Peter M Chiilloch was convicted of murdering a woman, seducing her, and concealing the body, and was sentenced to death to be executed on Saturday.
A circular to magistrates from the Duke of Portiano via the Mayor of Boston requests aid and accommodation for transported French ecclesiastics expelled from Jersey and Guernsey. A Boston meeting gathered to discuss the matter, noting a transport may land at a northern port, but the Jesuit had not yet arrived.
Thursday saw the execution of Penitenders Heath and William Clare for highway robbery. A note to a bystander was delivered by Clark. Reports also mention the death of 14 year old William Wickerfall from hydrophobia near Basford, dog bite events, and a man committed to Chelmsford gaol for pig theft. Additional items include Gipsey Tom’s Glasgow wagon robbery case and a boxed female body found in Leith with signs of violence.
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